Register now for the Teaching and Learning Inspiration Days
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| From Monday 29 January to Thursday 1 February 2024, the Teaching and Learning Inspiration Days will again take place. During this four-day event, every teacher can immerse themselves in an offer guaranteed to boost their teaching. The week will be kicked off with a keynote on the podcast as learning method and there will be sessions on Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR/XR), providing feedback, researching your own teaching, AI, improving your presentation skills, Challenge Based Learning and much more. Check out the full programme and register now! |
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New teacher development offer |
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Would you like to keep developing yourself as a teacher? The Centre for Academic Teaching and Learning (CAT) organises interesting workshops and webinars (W&W) focused on teacher development throughout the year. In December, for example, you can attend a session on feedback, in which you will get to work in a practical way to improve your feedback message, or on the USO project Belonging@UU, where the concepts of sense of belonging and authenticity will be addressed. The complete annual development offer is already planned, so be sure to check which workshops you would like to attend during the year and register.
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Save the date: OnderwijsFestival 7 March 2024 |
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On Thursday 7 March 2024, UU's premier education event will take place: the OnderwijsFestival. At this event, the whole UU community will get together in various sessions to exchange ideas and gain inspiration on the quality of and developments in education. It promises to be an inspiring day full of workshops, meeting opportunities, keynotes, entertainment, and much more! Of course, the winners of the annual Teacher Awards and the UU Team Award will also be announced. Let us know if you want to be kept informed in order to receive a message when the programme is complete and you can register.
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Call for proposals OnderwijsFestival: research your own teaching
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At the OnderwijsFestival, special attention will be paid to teachers and staff who are doing research on their own teaching (Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, SoTL) and want to share their (research-informed) plans, progress and results. Teachers from all disciplines are invited to present their projects aimed at promoting student learning at the OnderwijsFestival. The deadline for submitting an abstract is 1 February 2024.
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Save the date: meeting on researching transdisciplinary education
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Universities and colleges are increasingly focused on their social mission and shaping students into socially engaged citizens and professionals. Community Engaged Learning (CEL) or other forms of transdisciplinary education are therefore increasingly seen in policy and practice. We want to be able to shape this in a research-informed way. Therefore, Utrecht University is organising a meeting on 13 February 2024, where we will address relevant research questions and methods. Through exchange between research and practice, we will explore a joint research agenda and opportunities for collaboration. So put 13 February in your calendar and register!
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News from the Teacher Community T@UU |
Join us for the Student Empowerment session during the Teaching and Learning Inspiration Days |
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How to empower students to take learning into their own hands? It’s the idea of creating an environment where students want to learn rather than have to learn. But if we want students to be creative, self-directed learners we need to go beyond student engagement and into empowerment. This is the core idea of switching from teacher centered to student centered. Of course, this asks a change, time investment and another role of the teacher. In this interactive session, we will dive into the concept of student empowerment, give a student perspective on this, and provide useful tools for teachers in the implementation process.
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33 nominations by students for university Teacher Awards
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To stimulate lecturers to continuously improve their teaching and reward their education, Utrecht University has granted the annual Teaching Awards since 1994. Lecturers that are starting out can be nominated for the Teacher Talent Award, and senior lecturers for the Outstanding Teacher Award. This year, no less than 33 lecturers were nominated by the study associations. Are you curious to know who will win this year? The winners will be announced at the OnderwijsFestival on 7 March 2024.
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Call for contributions: international conference on inter- and transdisciplinarity
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From 4 to 8 November 2024, the next International Transdisciplinarity Conference 2024 (ITD24) will take place in Utrecht. Utrecht University hosts and co-organises this major international conference. If you would like to contribute to the conference, you can. The call for contributions is now open.
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Collaborate with a business or community organisation
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As a teacher in a course, do you want your students to collaborate with an external organisation? U-Collaborate in Education (UCE) would like to help you make the connection. You can read what that can look like in practice in this article in OnderNamen (in Dutch). As project manager, Cocky de Wolf was responsible for driving the new strategic collaboration between the Computer Science department and external parties in education. Also want to submit a project? Check out our UU intranet page to find out how. Looking for inspiration? Follow us on our new LinkedIn page.
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New intranet page Learning Management System now live
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The tender for UU's new Learning Management System (LMS) is progressing on schedule. The tender is expected to be finalised by the end of April 2024, followed by a pilot phase in the 2024-2025 academic year and a UU-wide go live at the start of the 2025-2026 academic year. Information for all stakeholders about the progress of the project, the impact on lecturers, students and support staff, what support will be offered and much more, can be found on the intranet page New Learning Management System.
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Mobile Hybrid Set Telebuddy enables active participation in education in fieldwork!
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From Future Learning Spaces, an innovative mobile set has been developed for hybrid education at remote locations. This is education where part of the student group is e.g. on fieldwork or excursion and another part of the group cannot participate due to travel, physical or other limitations. The set consists of a harness with video and audio equipment operated by a trained support person, the Telebuddy. The teacher and students on site can see and hear the online students through the Telebuddy, making interaction easy. Would you like to know more or try out? Contact us at fls@uu.nl.
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Improve the digital accessibility of study materials with Ally
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Utrecht education is digitising at a rapid pace and it is therefore important to pay attention to the digital accessibility of our education. Ally is a tool that integrates with the Learning Management System (Blackboard) and helps teachers and students in various ways to improve the digital accessibility of study materials. After a successful pilot in academic year 2022-2023, Ally will be available as standard within Blackboard from 20 November. Would you like to know more about how you can use Ally to improve the digital accessibility of your course? Please join the workshop on 18 January!
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Using e-modules in your education
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Do you want to develop an e-module and use it in your education, but don't know where to start? Anouk den Hamer (Educational Development & Training) explains in which ways you can use e-modules in your education and how you can ensure that the e-module is effective in your students' learning process. You will also read about potential pitfalls, and how to evaluate your e-module.
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News from the Teaching and Learning Collection |
Belonging@UU – Diversity and Inclusion beyond the numbers
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A culture where everyone belongs, is valued and has the opportunity to develop through open, equal and inspiring education is recognized in the UU Strategic Plan 2020-2025. This UU-wide project contributes to diversity an inclusion goals of Utrecht University by (1) creating an interactive dashboard which presents levels of students’ sense of and (2) by designing practical tools and interventions to empower students or (3) that can be used by lecturers and programmes to foster students’ sense of belonging.
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