Learning, Teaching and Assessment Strategy
Overarching aims of the Learning, Teaching and Assessment Strategy
The main aim of Goldsmiths' Learning, Teaching and Assessment Strategy is to provide our students with an enriching learning experience that is concerned with knowledge, skills and self-discovery through creative, radical and rigorous learning practice. Our Strategy will be instrumental in supporting students to achieve the diverse, skills, attributes and characteristics of a 'Goldsmiths 3D Graduate' We will achieve this along with a programme of significant growth in student numbers over the period of the Strategy.
We aim to offer exciting and innovative curricula based on our academic strengths, which reflect the varied interests and qualities of our diverse student population and which meet the wider needs of society. We will regularly review our approaches to learning, teaching and assessment to meets the needs of our current and future students and, within the resources available to us, we will strive to find ways of enhancing our practice.
In parallel with developments across the higher education sector we are committed to increasingly student-centred approaches to learning and teaching. The Strategy will, therefore, outline the ways in which we intend to support students to become self-motivated learners, enabled to take responsibility for, and control of, their learning whilst at Goldsmiths and beyond.
We will continue to acknowledge the centrality of academic and support staff in realising our aim to provide an excellent learning experience by detailing the ways in which Goldsmiths promotes and rewards excellence in teaching and learning support. In particular, we are committed to ensuring that as far as possible our institutional procedures and practices are aligned to enable the productive dialogue between teaching and research to enrich students and staff alike.
We understand that providing an excellent learning experience, above all else, requires a commitment to a process of continuing adjustment and improvement.
The priorities for Learning, Teaching and Assessment Strategy are therefore to:
- Support students in acquiring the attributes of the Goldsmith 3D Graduate;
- Adopt an increasingly student-centred approach to learning which recognises the need to support the differing needs of a diverse student body;
- Increasingly engage with blended forms of learning support i.e. those which routinely integrate digital, online, and interactive technologies within other modes of teaching delivery;
- Recognise the importance of learning and teaching and of those making effective contributions in this area.
Printable version of LTA aims [pdf]
Printable version of complete Learning, Teaching and Assessment Strategy [pdf]