Center for Pedagogical Excellence Habib University
Center for Pedagogical Excellence

Programs

Development opportunities, shared practices and celebrations of teaching excellence for Habib University’s learning community.

Faculty development

Programs for an evolving learning community

CPE programs create spaces for instructors and students to exchange practices, explore pedagogical questions and celebrate excellent teaching.

Pedagogical Development Week at Habib University
Annual program

PDW

The Office of Teaching & Learning (OTL) with its Center for Pedagogical Excellence provides comprehensive, innovative, and inclusive development opportunities aligned with the latest pedagogical research and working towards student-centricity.

OTL’s Pedagogical Development Week (PDW), held annually in August, offers workshops, panel discussions and talks that help faculty build capacity in teaching and learning. PDW also aims to inspire the community of instructors through showcasing the best courses.

PDW’24, themed “Sparking New Conversations,” brought together faculty for insightful discussions on student advising, the future of teaching and learning, and their first teaching experiences at Habib University.

Sessions explored AI integration in assessment design, prompt engineering, the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Digital Humanities, the Critical Response Process, mindfulness, the politics of teaching history, illustration, alternative pedagogies and contemplative studies.

The event opened with Rethink, Redesign, Reimagine (R3), where Teaching Excellence Award winners shared innovative approaches. Theatre, board games and live musical pedagogy strengthened community across the event. Of 86 attendees, 55 full-time faculty and fellows exceeded the nine-hour participation benchmark.

Canvas resourcesPDW calendar
It Worked for Me faculty talk
Monthly talk series

It Worked For Me…

“It Worked for Me” creates a space where faculty and fellows share positive pedagogical experiences and innovative teaching approaches with Habib’s community of instructors. Attendees gain new insights and inspiration to apply in their own classrooms.

  • “To Slide or Not To Slide” – Dr. Faisal Alvi
  • “Building Communities in a Course” – Christie Lauder
  • “Finding the way from fear to freedom” – Haseeb Sheikh
  • “Engaging Gen-Z in Classroom” – Dr. Qasim Pasta
I Learn Best When student panel
Student voice

I Learn Best When…

“I Learn Best When” is a monthly panel discussion with students on their learning experiences at Habib University. Open to instructors and students, it explores how students learn best and which pedagogical methods, tools and assessments resonate most.

The conversation offers instructors a direct opportunity to learn from students and work towards improving their teaching.

  • “Navigating the Challenges of Reading-Intensive Courses: A Student Perspective”
  • “Generative AI and Students”
Teaching Excellence Awards at Habib University
Recognition

Teaching Excellence Awards

Habib University, with its focus on Yohsin and student-centered learning, invests in the holistic training of its faculty and fellows and recognises their pedagogical achievements. Excellence in teaching is the first and foremost quality in the faculty promotion process.

Teaching awards reclaim the importance of inspiring and innovative pedagogy, create evaluation structures around it, establish impactful dissemination methods and celebrate crucial advances in higher education.

Awards handbook 2025
R3 Faculty Talks at Habib University
Flagship series

R³ Faculty Talks

Habib University’s Center for Pedagogical Excellence organizes the annual R³ Faculty Talks — Rethink, Redefine and Reimagine — to celebrate the winners of the annual teaching excellence awards.

The series gives the wider community an opportunity to learn from faculty experiences, challenges, memorable student exchanges and the excellent courses introduced at Habib. Its goal is to spark conversations and collaborations across disciplines.

Watch R³ talks