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| Add info@mailings.uu.nl to your safe senders or address book to ensure you receive University newsletters in your inbox. At http://veiligeafzender.nl/, learn how to add an email address as a safe sender in applications such as Gmail, Outlook and Apple Mail.
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| Join us for our lustrum activities
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| While we reminisce about the successful symposium and party, we will also celebrate our lustrum with several activities taking place through to December. For instance, you can participate in special lustrum workshops from our workshop and webinar (W&W) offer, focusing on Challenge Based Learning or stimulating cooperation between your students. In addition, the anniversary will be celebrated during some Special Interest Group (SIG) activities. Get to know Open Education, for example, or learn how to give your students effective feedback on their writing. In short: the party is not over yet! Check out the offer and register.
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| Professional development for lecturers: where do you find it?
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| Utrecht University offers lecturers a large range of options for educational development, for instance, courses and workshops, but also programmes and online modules. The Centre for Academic Teaching and Learning (CAT) would like to bring these offerings together and make them easier to find. Do you have any tips? We would like to hear them! You can be of great help to us by answering 7 simple questions in our survey. Please do so before 5 November. Participation is anonymous.
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| Open day Future Learning Spaces 9 November
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| At Future Learning Spaces, we like to keep busy. Since September 2022, another learning space has been awarded the FLS predicate! With this addition, the counter is set at 5 Future Learning Spaces. To further showcase these learning spaces, and what they can add to your own education, there will be an internal open day held on 9 November. Are you interested to join us during this open day? Please fill in the form on the following website.
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| New intranet page Interdisciplinary Education Programme
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| The Interdisciplinary Education Programme (IDO) is launching an intranet page dedicated to interdisciplinarity. Here you will find information about how we at UU define interdisciplinarity, its relevance to society and the academy, and what ambitions UU has for interdisciplinarity. You will also find links to relevant articles, tools and examples of interdisciplinary education. For example, you will find an informative animation, developed by the programme to introduce interdisciplinarity to students and faculty. The intranet page is frequently updated and expanded, so take a look regularly.
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| Podcasts in your education, how to do it
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| Listening to stories, interviews, or brushing up on your knowledge, using a podcast is very common nowadays. Podcasts have also been in use in education for some time. Why would you want this as a teacher and what challenges might you encounter? Educational consultant Anouk den Hamer dove into the world of podcasts in education and made an overview for you.
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Improving communication skills with Traintool
Do you want to improve your students' communication skills? Then perhaps TrainTool can help you! TrainTool is an application that allows students to practice with and improve various communication skills online in a safe and accessible way. The student is presented with a situation through a video and can react to it by making a video recording of themselves. Afterwards, the recording can be shared with fellow students and teachers so they can provide feedback. Are you interested in the possibilities TrainTool has to offer for your education? Then register for the workshop or contact Teaching Support.
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| Submit your proposal to the support fund Community Engaged Learning
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| Utrecht University wants to educate students that contribute to a better world and solving societal challenges. Are you a lecturer and would you like more social engagement in your education? Start a collaboration with an external partner and develop your education. To help you get started, you can apply for a grant of the support fund for Community Engaged Learning (CEL). The application deadline is 1 november.
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| Workshops recognition and rewards for leadership staff
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| Are you enthusiastic about recognition and rewards? Or are you rather sceptical about it? Do you already apply it in your practice? To familiarise all UU leadership staff, both WP and OBP, with recognition and rewards, the UU offers a two-day workshop. The workshop revolves around what you need as a leader to get started with recognition and rewards.
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| CAT 2021 annual review is online
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| The Centre for Academic Teaching and Learning (CAT) 2021 annual review is online. For the first time, this overview also includes highlights from our CAT-partners. You can find the overview online on the CAT website.
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| News from the teaching community TAUU
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The TAUU is looking for support!
The teaching community TAUU is looking for support from a project leader for one day a week. As project leader, you will support the TAUU council in achieving their goals and monitor that to do’s are carried out. Are you working at UU and do you have room for an extra day? Do you know how to get things done, are you flexible and able to take initiative? Then this position might be for you!
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| From the Teaching and Learning Collection
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Educational Theme: Interdisciplinarity
Interdisciplinarity in academic contexts, and more specifically interdisciplinary education at Utrecht University, has gained increasing attention in the last decades. University Colleges were founded, broad bachelor programmes arose across faculties and interdisciplinary minors and courses are becoming more and more popular among students.
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