Center for Educational Innovation

The Center for Educational Innovation (CEI) was established at Zayed University in October 2013.

The CEI is driven by:

• Connecting faculty, research and practice
• Evolving efforts to meet emerging professional learning needs
• Innovating learning and teaching experiences

Vision

To empower faculty to enhance learning experiences in ways that are responsive to a dynamic and evolving higher education context.

As a result of interactions with the CEI, faculty are supported to improve student learning experiences within the ZU educational context.

Faculty are able to:

• Implement new practices in course design and assessment
• Incorporate a scholarly approach to teaching and learning
• Reflect critically on their teaching practice
• Contribute to an academic community which challenges and critiques current practice
• Experiment with pedagogical interventions to increase student engagement
• Explore new ideas in learning and teaching
• Identify, evaluate and integrate appropriate tools for the purpose of enhancing learning and teaching