TITLE:
Reflection on the Construction of Center of Teaching and Learning Development in China University
AUTHORS:
Yong Li
KEYWORDS:
Center of Teaching and Learning Development, Service Academic Entity, Construction Principle, Development Content
JOURNAL NAME:
Creative Education,
Vol.8 No.8,
July
18,
2017
ABSTRACT:
Since 2011, China’s universities have established the Center of Teaching and
Learning Development (CTLD), which has become a new measure to drive
the teaching reform in colleges and universities, promoting the development
of teachers’ teaching and learning, and improving the quality of personnel
training. At present, the research on CTLD in universities has become a hot
issue among the researches of higher education in China, but some basic confused
questions on it are still unclear. CTLD is an exotic concept derived from
the United States; therefore, in the process of localization or sinicization, we
need to answer some major questions: What is the center? Why should we
construct the center? How to construct it? What should be constructed? This
paper maintains that CTLD in Chinese universities and colleges is a policy-driven, exogenous center construction mode which is different from the
endogenous center mode of European and American universities. As a service
academic entity, CTLD is designed to respond to the mission of the teacher,
the change of the social environment and the needs of the teacher’s development.
The construction method needs to follow the supportive, holistic, serviceable
and differentiated principles, carrying out effective work under the
progressive ways of foundation, expansion and characteristics to achieve the
localization of the central construction, thus promoting the development of
the Center so as to eventually shoulder its due mission. This paper will elaborate
the China’s CTLD from five aspects, including its status quo of researches,
organization orientation, origin of founding, and construction principles.