Promoting educational and cultural innovation within the University, addressing technological and global challenges with an experimental and collaborative approach.
The Centre for Teaching and Learning (CTL) aims at: promoting quality of teaching; encouraging faculty training and self-training by enhancing both trainings; strengthening the professional collaboration environment through a more and more student-centred approach; disseminating innovative research practices in the field of education; addressing the challenges related to the use of new artificial intelligence (AI) technologies.
The evolution of the Bologna Process and the 2023 ANVUR Guidelines highlight the need to combine a student-centred approach with the enhancement of faculty professionalism, recognizing that genuinely student-centred teaching requires trained, qualified teachers who are supported in their professional development.
Within this perspective, the CTL carries out its mission by translating these principles into concrete practices of training, teaching innovation, and institutional collaboration. It promotes a learning environment that is inclusive, high-quality, and aligned with European standards.
At European level, CTL initiatives take into account both the guidelines of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) and the European Pillar of Social Rights.
The EHEA aims, among other objectives, at ensuring maximum comparability, compatibility, and coherence among the education systems of its member states. The European pillar of Social Rights recognizes the right to education, training, and lifelong learning that are of high quality and deeply inclusive. All of this is intended to foster meaningful participation in social life and in the labour market, reducing the risks of unemployment, poverty, and social exclusion.
Measures recommended by the 2023 ANVUR Guidelines include:
Coordinating courses for Secondary and High Schools teachers at educational and organizational level, consistently with every subject area, in order to innovate and broadly qualify the Education System through Professionals’ education.
The CTL coordinates, both at educational and organizational level, courses for Secondary and High school teachers at educational and organizational level, consistently with the "classi di concorso" (subject areas in which every teacher is qualified). It promotes the training, the development, and scientific, methodological advancement of Teachers’ skills, while supporting the quality and innovation—including technological innovation—of educational activities carried out both in person and online. In full respect of the existing differences among disciplines, the CTL contributes to identifying and promoting teaching practices that enhance the learning experience, students’ learning outcomes, their motivation, satisfaction, and trust in educational institutions.