Domain 4: Description
This domain emphasises the importance of both disciplinary knowledge and disciplinary approaches to
teaching (disciplinary pedagogies), while also drawing on inter-disciplinary experiences and approaches. It
supports an active student role in the learning process, moving toward a partnership in the teaching and
learning process, essential in the higher education environment. It incorporates staff’s capacity to design
and implement innovative and creative teaching and learning approaches at different levels of the curriculum. The
importance of assessment and feedback is emphasised, in particular the move to a more learner-oriented
and dialogic feedback approach for students and balance in the assessment of/for/as learning. The role of
underpinning theories of learning and staff’s knowledge and contribution to teaching and learning policies,
procedures and scholarship is also highlighted.