About

CETL serves all university educators including faculty (adjunct, part-time, full-time), lab instructors, teaching assistants, academic staff (developmental specialists, librarians, advisors,) and tutors.  

Faculty Resources for Online Learning

UNE Faculty, log into OKTA to access CETL Workshops and Resources created to support you with online education:   

• Go to https://une.okta.com
• Log in using your email login and password
• Click on the Continuity Technology Resources tile 

Vision

The UNE Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) will be a global leader of organizational and faculty development that promotes excellence and innovation in evidence-based, student-centered teaching with an emphasis on inquiry, inclusion, and community.    

Mission

CETL is a dynamic resource that serves as a catalyst and support for innovative, vibrant, and effective teaching and learning. The center strives to inspire and support all faculty as they gain skills to provide active, experiential, student-centered teaching and learning. We promote policies, programs, and resources that support a valued, engaged faculty and evidence-based teaching practices.    

Values

• Teaching and learning excellence is the foundation of a university community
• Learning occurs best in an environment that respects differences and values all community members
• Teaching practice is best supported in a safe and nonjudgmental environment that allows risk-taking, creativity, and relentless inquiry
• Excellent teaching embraces multiple formats that respond to evolving research on effective pedagogy and that increase student access, support improved retention, and foster degree completion
• In addition to discipline-based knowledge and professional competencies, teaching and learning should develop and refine habits of mind such as critical thinking, problem-solving, tolerance for ambiguity, and cultural, quantitative, and information literacy
• Excellence in teaching and learning facilitates productive engagement with local, regional, and global partners
• Teaching and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) respect disciplinary ways of viewing the world, values, procedures, and practices while encouraging interprofessional dialogue.   
• In a strong teaching culture, university fiscal and policy decisions are made with attention to their impact on teaching and learning

GUIDING PRINCIPLES

• Teaching and learning excellence is the foundation of a university community
• Teaching excellence involves creativity, risk taking, problem solving, boldness, trial and error, and openness to new ideas and paradigms
• Learning occurs best in an environment that respects differences and values all community members
• A dynamic university promotes growth in teaching and learning across all career stages
• Professional development is most effective when it is supportive, innovative and collaborative
• Teachers reflect and grow best in a safe and nonjudgmental environment
• Educational theories and evidence-based educational research can enrich the practice of teaching and learning
• Excellence in teaching and learning emerges from and fosters local, regional, national and global collaboration
• A spirit of inquiry, reflection and observation nurtures teaching and learning
• In a strong teaching culture, university fiscal and policy decisions are made with attention to their impact on teaching and learning