Teaching & Learning Unit
Teaching and Learning Unit Mission:
To promote the efficiency and effectiveness of teaching and learning processes at the university by providing faculty and students with institutional support and guidance according to international best practices.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Developing strategies, policies, and procedures for teaching and learning at DAU.
- Monitoring and coordinating with quality units in colleges to ensure compliance with the requirements of the Education and Learning Standard (the third standard of institutional and programmatic accreditation standards).
- Studying the alignment between course content, teaching and learning strategies, and assessment methods with course objectives and expected learning outcomes in coordination with quality committees in academic programs.
- Monitoring the implementation of academic programs and courses’ development plans based on the annual reports of the programs and course which are approved by department council and college council in coordination with quality committees in the academic programs.
- Developing and implementing improvement plans based on institutional accreditation performance indicators analysis.
- Monitoring academic programs in improvement plans implementation which is based on the programmatic accreditation performance indicators analysis.
- Measuring the characteristics of graduates and learning outcomes at the institutional and programmatic levels in collaboration with quality units in the colleges and developing improvement plans based on these results.
- Developing the suitable documentation system for study plans, academic program descriptions, course descriptions, ensuring quick and easy reference, especially in student transfer or conversion processes to and from the university which will facilitate the retrieval process for this data.
- Establishing mechanisms to develop and improve teaching and learning requirements and equipment in DAU such as libraries, laboratories, study halls, and Internet rooms in various colleges.
- Monitoring student satisfaction with the quality of teaching, academic advising, professional advising, psychological advising, and all services provided to them.
Developing procedures and mechanisms to enhance the credibility of exams and student assessment methods. - Ensuring effective academic performance of students by verifying the provision of feedback to students based on their performance in exams and various assessment methods.