UNESCO Chair on Engineering Education has designed and implemented various educational workshops for the professional development and teaching-learning skills of faculty members and teaching assistants (TA), at the University of Tehran and other universities in Iran. Each workshop is held in half a day and has two parts (for a total of 4 hours). In each workshop, books and other materials prepared on the topic of the workshop are also provided to the participants. At the end of each workshop, a certificate is given to the participants. The titles and specifications of the compiled workshops are given below. These workshops are organized in the fields of teaching preparation, teaching and learning, educational assessment, and engineering education management and planning.
A. Being prepared for teaching
- Engineering Education
- Learning objectives
- Course design (new)
B. Teaching and learning
- Learning mechanism
- Active learning
- Principles of good practice
- Teaching experiences
- Educational innovations
- TA training
C. Educational assessment
- Learning assessment
- Learning assessment by rubric
- Program accreditation
- Curriculum mapping (new)
- Internal assessment of educational programs
- External assessment of educational programs (for assessors)
D. Organizing engineering education
- Engineering ethics
- Quality management of engineering education (new)
- Student counselling
- Promoting learning motivation
- Challenges of engineering education in Iran
E. Engineering Education planning
