AQPC

Mission

The mission of the AQPC is to promote, stimulate, and support the development and evolution of college pedagogy.

Vision

The AQPC strives to be a reflection and a beacon for all who work in education at college level so as to ensure quality learning for all students whether enrolled in regular courses or in continuing education.

The AQPC contributes to the development and evolution of pedagogy in conjunction with diverse partners in the field of higher education.

Values

Our mission and vision rest on the following values:

Sharing

The AQPC supports the development and evolution of pedagogy through the sharing of knowledge and experiences.

Respect

The AQPC recognizes the value of its members and its partners and treats them with consideration at all times.

Responsibility

The AQPC is dedicated to fulfilling the duties and commitments identified in its mission statement.

Openness

The AQPC encourages communication and the exchange of ideas freely expressed. It supports pedagogical initiatives and initiates the necessary partnerships.

Honesty

The AQPC follows principles of frankness and honesty.

Transparency

The AQPC conducts its business in a manner that ensures the transparency of its practices, decisions, and operations.

Orientations

The AQPC aims to :

• Bring together pedagogues and all those interested in collegial pedagogy.
• Contribute to the development of a professional identity for college pedagogues.
• Implement mechanisms for collaboration between people interested in collegial pedagogy.
• Promote the creation of places for meetings, information, exchanges, and collaboration on pedagogical issues in colleges.
• Support and facilitate reflection and research on various aspects of pedagogy, in particular by encouraging the establishment of links between pedagogical theory and practice and more specifically, between teaching and learning.
• Promote research in college pedagogy; disseminate research results and relevant work done on the improvement of pedagogical practices and promote the dissemination of information on pedagogical reality at collegial level.
• Encourage pedagogical innovation in colleges and emphasize its benefits.
• Disseminate pedagogical innovations in higher education.
• Work towards ensuring that pedagogy is part of the public debate concerning colleges.
• Feed further reflection on pedagogy at college level via links to different schools of thought, both national and international.