The Professional Standards Framework for Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Lebanese Universities “E-TALEB” is a national project co-funded by Erasmus+ co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union. E-TALEB aims at developing the Lebanese Professional Standards in Teaching and Learning and cooperating for innovation and exchange of good practices and experiences relevant to similar frameworks established in Europe.
The main objective of this project is to support the initial and continuing professional development of staff engaged in teaching and foster dynamic approaches to teaching and learning through creativity, innovation and continuous development in diverse academic disciplines and/or professional settings. The project will support in creating a community of researchers in different disciplines who share inter and intra university practices in teaching and learning.
E-TALEB will acknowledge the variety and quality of teaching, learning and assessment practices that support and underpin student learning including instructional technology. It will also demonstrate to students and other stakeholders the professionalism that staff and institutions bring to teaching and their support for student learning.
Aims and wide objectives
E-TALEB aims to develop faculty members teaching skills and students learning experience in Lebanon by developing a national framework of good practices and shared experiences:
1. Supporting the initial and continuing professional development of staff engaged in teaching and supporting learning;
2. Fostering dynamic approaches to teaching and learning through creativity, innovation and continuous development in diverse academic and/or professional settings;
3. Creating a community of researchers in different disciplines who share inter and intra university practices in teaching and learning;
4. Acknowledging the variety and quality of teaching, learning and assessment practices that support and underpin student learning including instructional technology;
5. Assisting individuals and institutions in gaining formal recognition for quality enhanced approaches to teaching and supporting learning.
Specific Objectives
As a result, the project will have high national impact, providing at once many outcomes:
- Establishing the Lebanese Professional Standards Framework in Teaching & Learning LBPSF;
- Offering a Post-Graduate Certificate Programme in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education for faculty members;
- Collaborating interuniversity activities centered on training and educational programs;
- Creating centers for teaching excellence inside each of the participating universities that support faculty and students in their teaching and learning activities;
- Supporting the universities in their accreditation programs by having a formal process for teaching and learning;
- Developing human capital and talented experts in teaching and learning in the participating countries;
- Sustaining the competitiveness of the higher education field in Lebanon, the Middle East and the participating partner countries;
- Publishing the Lebanese Journal on Teaching and Learning.
E-Taleb Consortium
Project Applicant and Coordinator:
- Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (USEK), Lebanon (Project Applicant and Coordinator)
National authority:
- Directorate General of Higher Education (DGHE), Lebanon
Partners
- Al‐Manar University of Tripoli
- University of Balamand
- Beirut Arab University
- Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
- Evalag, Germany
- Holy Family University
- Jinan University
- Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences Germany
- Lebanese American University
- Lebanese University
- University of Roehampton, United Kingdom
- Staff and Educational Development Association (SEDA), United Kingdom
Contact us
E-Taleb Project
Quality Assurance and Institutional Effectiveness Office
Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (USEK)
Campus Kaslik, Building G, Floor 3, G 307A
Website:
etaleb.org
Email:
info@etaleb.org;
etaleb@usek.edu.lb
Facebook: E-Taleb / Erasmus+ Project
Phone: +961 9 600 351-2
Fax: +961 9 600 671