Section:
Student Learning Development Section

Purpose of Establishment:
Students' years at university represent an integral stage for their development of independent thinking and learning skills. Students are ushered into a new and completely different learning environment from the standardized education system regularly found in high schools and elementary schools. The key to laying the critical foundation in their successful learning and future development in university lies with re-identification of their own learning styles, finding suitable learning methods, learning new study strategies, removing difficulties and obstacles to studying, and gaining knowledge of the channels for resources. Therefore we hope to cultivate students' independence, love and diligence for studies through innovative learning, mentoring mechanisms, and resource integration, thus providing comprehensive adaptability mentoring from admission to graduation.

Functions:
1. Matters related to the assistance for increasing students' learning capacity.
2. Matters related to the promotion of students' cross-disciplinary expansion.
3. Matters related to the training of student instructors.
4. Matters related to the establishment of students' learning resources.
5. Other matters related to the development of students' learning.

Brief History:
The Section was established in 2006 as a secondary administrative unit under the Center for Learning and Teaching for the execution of the Program for Promoting Teaching Excellence Universities of the Ministry of Education. Since August 2019, it becomes a sub-unit of the Office of Student Affairs due to reforms in the organization policy of the school.

Features:
1. Flipped Learning & Teaching to Cultivate Students' Independence
2. Innovative Learning to Promote Diversified Development
3. Peer Teaching to Promote Knowledge Sharing
4. Incorporate Technologies to Facilitate Resource Integration

Office: Room I405, Chueh-sheng Memorial Hall
Hours: Monday - FridayˇG 08:00 - 17:00
Tel: 886-2-2621-5656 Ext.2160/3526/3527/3531
Fax: 886-2-2629-0306
Email: asjx@oa.tku.edu.tw