Academy

At Keele, we have a proud tradition of interdisciplinary education, and for making student learning powerfully relevant to society’s challenges.

Drawing together expert educational teams from across the university, The Keele Institute for Innovation and Teaching Excellence (KIITE) is home to a vibrant community of student education innovators: academic developers, student learning experts, learning technologists and employability consultants, designing educational delivery in partnership with academics, students and employers, and providing networks of pedagogical debate and educational research.

This community of expertise has been brought together to design new curricula for our students, support student development, shape researcher development and design a co-curriculum that links students to civic society and the workplace.

The KIITE Academy brings together a number of programmes, short courses and professional development opportunities for academics from across the Higher Education sector, both nationally and internationally. Find out more about our work below. 

About Keele University

Keele University is registered with the regulator of higher education in England, the Office for Students, and has received the highest-quality rating ‘Gold’ in the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) for delivering consistently outstanding teaching, learning and outcomes for its students. Keele University is an authorised foreign education institution recognised by the Chinese Ministry of Education. 

Keele is a warm, international inclusive community and we strive to create an environment which is globally-aware and ‘without borders’. The campus is an inspirational space to think, write and create and our visitors are encouraged to immerse themselves in university life. The campus boasts over 630 acres of extensive woods, several small lakes and landscaped parkland, offering the optimal environment for learning and reflection. 

About KIITE

KIITE’s expertise spans curriculum design and development in the broadest sense, including management and leadership of teaching in higher education. We have particular interests in:

• Assessment design: authentic assessment, reflective learning and critical skills, diversifying modes of assessment, feedback and feedback loop, social learning and group assessment, programme-level assessment, research-led, research-based learning and undergraduate research.
• Employability: skills development, including academic reading and writing, career management, fostering enterprise and entrepreneurship, civic engagement, creativity, dissemination practices and employer engagement, interdisciplinarity.
• Technology-enhanced learning: digital literacy, learner analytics, flexible and online learning, digitally enabled assessment and feedback practices.
• International perspectives: partnerships, ‘internationalisation at home’, virtual and physical mobility (inward and outward), languages and languages for specific purposes, exchanges.
• Inclusive learning: accessibility, inclusive learning spaces, wellbeing in the curriculum, student co-design, students as partners, ‘decolonising the curriculum’.