CILT

The Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching (CILT) is committed to a higher education environment that fosters transformative and reflexive practices in learning and teaching. We strive to create a socially responsive and contextually relevant teaching and learning environment that embraces principles of openness. Our key focus areas include staff development, course and curriculum design, and educational technologies.

CILT responds to teaching and learning challenges at UCT and the broader higher education environment through learner-centred pedagogic practices. In face-to-face and online environments, we encourage the adoption of innovative practices through critical engagements with staff and students. We support curriculum initiatives underpinned by values and skills ranging from graduate attributes and digital literacies to community engagement and social justice.

Short courses offered by the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching

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CILT Workshops

  • Date: Always available / on demand
  • Location: Hybrid online and in person event
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Bespoke workshop facilitated by the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching (CILT) for external clients.

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Design Thinking for Learning Designers

  • Date: 1 September to 12 October 2025
  • Location: Online
  • Time: Mondays & Wednesdays: 16.00-18.00
BOLD short course: Design Thinking for Learning Designers

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Designing with AI

  • Date: 3 Feb, 7 July, 1 Sept 2025
  • Location: Online
  • Time: Tuesday & Thursday 16.00-18.00
A six-week online short course that forms part of a suite of short courses that support blended and online learning design.

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Facilitating Online

  • Date: 6 October to 16 November 2025
  • Location: Online
  • Time: Mondays and Wednesdays: 16.00-18.00
BOLD short course: Facilitating Online

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Introduction to Learning Design

  • Date: 9 June to 20 July 2025
  • Location: Online
  • Time: Tuesdays and Thursdays: 18:00 - 20:00
A six-week course exploring learning design as an approach, a role, a practice and an emerging research field.

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Learning Design in Practice

  • Date: 30 June to 10 July 2025
  • Location: Hybrid online and in person event
  • Time: Thursdays: 16.00-18.30, online, block week 7th-11th of July 2025: 9.00-16.00, face-2-face
A six-week course taking an experiential approach to learning design.

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Learning Design Models

  • Date: 7 July to 17 August 2025
  • Location: Online
  • Time: Tuesdays: 16.00-18.30
A six-week course introducing process-, learning-, material- and equity-oriented learning models, focusing on rationale, purpose and context of models.

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Project Management in Learning Design

  • Date: 6 October to 16 November 2025
  • Location: Online
  • Time: Tuesdays and Thursdays: 16.00-18.00
A six-week course exploring project management approaches to deal with a highly complex environment.

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