Empowering Higher Education Study through Excellence Teaching and Learning

Abstract

Higher education prepares students for higher order thinking with ability to resolve complex problems in their field of studies at the intended level. The curriculum forms the fundamental platform that combined and meshed the various learning domains set aside by the regulating bodies such as knowledge, psychomotor skills, and generic skills including ethics, communications, leadership skills, life-long learning, finances, and technopreneurship skill among others. Institutions of higher learning are facing challenges in providing excellence learning experience for the ever-demanded students especially with stiff competition among the various institutions over best prospective candidates. In fact, the issue of excellence in higher education has become a significant topic of interest among many education strategies around the world. Teaching is engagement with learners to enable their understanding and application of knowledge, concepts and processes and this includes design, content, delivery, assessment, evaluation and reflection. The aim of teaching is not only to transmit information, but also to transform students from passive recipients of other people's knowledge into active constructors of their own and others' knowledge. This paper explores excellence in teaching and learning through the perspective of the students, academics, and the learning environment to build competency of highest standard. Four main areas of discussion are the teaching quality, excellence attributes, teaching strategies, and tools for excellence measurement.