Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT)
A strategic academic center dedicated to advancing educational quality, institutionalizing student-centered learning methodologies, governing digital instructional ecosystems, and providing data-driven academic decision support across university governance.
Our Core Approach: Rather than superseding existing academic and administrative units, CELT functions as an integrative catalyst—scaffolding, auditing, highlighting, and enhancing teaching and learning practices across the institution.
Curriculum & Syllabus Governance
- Syllabus Compliance & Audit Operations: Centralized verification of course syllabi uploaded by our faculty via MyKHAS at the start of each semester, verifying institutional completeness, core rubrics, and formal sign-offs.
- Constructive Alignment & Accreditation: Aligning course learning outcomes (CLOs) with programmatic competencies and national THEQC (YÖKAK) accreditation standards.
- YÖK Micro-Credentials & Coursera: Institutional management of accredited online tracks, licensing pools, ECTS articulation workflows, and digital badging verification.
Faculty Development & Academic Initiatives
- Semester Onboarding & Orientations: Delivering start-of-term LMS orientations, digital testing guidelines, and policy onboarding for new faculty and incoming students.
- Instructional Enhancement Workshops: Organizing professional development workshops for our faculty on active learning, criterion-referenced rubrics, and authentic assessment strategies.
- Institutional Academic Programs: Coordinating Academic Support Scholarships and directing academic delivery for High School Summer and Winter Academies.
Digital Learning Systems & Interactive Tools
- KHAS Learn & Enterprise Synchronization: Overseeing automated roster and enrollment synchronizations via SAP and Microsoft Entra ID, ensuring continuous LMS uptime and database tuning.
- Interactive Educational Technologies: Centralized licensing, LTI integration, and pedagogical administration of H5P interactive content alongside engagement suites (Kahoot, Padlet, Mentimeter).
- Exam Security & Academic Integrity: Coordinating Turnitin originality workflows and managing locked-down laboratory testing environments via Safe Exam Browser (SEB).
Data-Informed Enhancement & Survey Analytics
- Course Evaluation Survey Operations: End-to-end administration, statistical evaluation, and reporting of institutional end-of-semester course evaluation surveys.
- Learning Analytics & Longitudinal Trends: Evaluating student achievement metrics, attendance records, and LMS engagement logs to detect instructional trends.
- Academic Decision Support: Formulating actionable analytical insights for the Education Committee, Rectorate, and Faculty Boards to drive continuous policy enhancement.
Institutional Collaboration & Governance
Operating under the Vice Rectorate for Education, CELT collaborates closely with the Education Committee, Academic Faculties, Information Center (Library), Dean of Students, Student Affairs Directorate, Information Technologies Directorate, Quality Assurance Unit (KADED), and Accessible KHAS.