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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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| New offer W&W: on course design and knowledge clips
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| In May, you can still follow interesting workshops and webinars! For example, take part in the Course Design workshop, in which you can get to work with (re)designing your teaching during four sessions, or start with the workshop series Knowledge clips, in which you will learn how te create a good knowledge clip. The workshops and webinars are already planned until June, so also check out which sessions you want to attend after May!
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| Compete for the Dutch Higher Education Award 2023
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| Every year, the Ministry of Education presents the Dutch Higher Education Award. This is an appreciation for educational teams that deliver a special performance in higher education. Nominated teams have a chance of winning an amount of €1,2 million, €800.000 or €500.000. For 2023, UU may again submit one nomination for a successful educational team. Do you and your team work together to improve education or do you know a team that has delivered an exceptional performance? Then submit the team for the pre-selection of the Dutch Higher Education Award.
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| Save the date: Strengthen-Your-Education-Week 27 June until 1 July 2022
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| The 9th edition of the Strengthen-Your-Education-Week is coming soon. In the week of 27 June until 1 July 2022, various workshops, webinars and other sessions will be organised. Are you a lecturer and do you want to get inspired to strengthen your own education? Please add these data to your calendar and let us know that you would like to receive updates. You will be informed as soon as the programme is announced so you can register quickly.
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| Formative assessment course
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| Research shows that the way we carry out assessments has a lot of influence on how and what students learn, and on the extent to which students take responsibility for their learning. In this course, we will get to work with the (re)design of formative assessment in your own course, in order to support student learning as best as possible. The course has 3 meetings and starts on 24 May. If you have any questions, please contact Lindy Wijsman or Marlies van Beek (Educational Consultancy & Training)
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| How can I make my education more entrepreneurial? Discover it in 1,5 hours on 24 May
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| The Entrepreneurship Education Canvas is a tool to help teachers and educationalists design education that stimulates the entrepreneurial mindset of students. On 24 May, at the initiative of the Entrepreneurial Education Network (EEN), an online meet-up will be organised for everyone interested in working with the Entrepreneurship Education Canvas. Teachers of all disciplines are welcome to join this online event, which will be held in English.
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| Save the date: Lustrum Centre for Academic Teaching and Learning 13 October
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| On 1 September 2022, the Centre for Academic Teaching and Learning of UU will celebrate its five-year anniversary! We would like to celebrate this first lustrum with you on Thursday 13 October, together with teaching community TAUU, which will then have been in existence for ten years. Would you like to celebrate this five-year anniversary with the Centre? Please mark this date in your calendar and show your interest in the programme so we can keep you updated.
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| USO: three interfaculty projects granted
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| In order to continue innovating and improving its education, Utrecht University annually makes two million available for innovative projects that help boost the development of academic education. Based on the advice of the evaluation committee of the Utrecht Education Incentive Fund (USO), three big, interfaculty projects have been granted, focusing on open source investigations on behalf of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), ‘get started and keep going’ with Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) and diversity and inclusion, with the aim of fostering and improving students’ sense of belonging.
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| Why continuing education is necessary in the workplace: remain not only competent but also skilled
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| University Lecturer Jeffrey de Gier (Veterinary Medicine) has worked at Utrecht University for more than 20 years. During his career he noticed a pattern in the questions for which veterinarians approached him. In order to provide answers to these common questions, he developed several courses, including the course Problem-oriented Management of Gynaecological Patients (Dutch). You can read his experiences about developing Continuing Education in this interview.
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| First group of teachers completes the Interdisciplinary Education Programme
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| The last meeting of the Interdisciplinary Education Programme took place at the end of March. All participants have successfully completed the course! The programme aims to enable its participants to give form and context to interdisciplinary education. After completing it, teachers will be able to make choices that are appropriate for the learning objectives of their interdisciplinary education. A new group of teachers will soon start with the programme as well!
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| News from the teaching community TAUU
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Drop by at the Office Hours!
The TAUU council holds weekly Office Hours where teachers can come by with questions, ideas, worries or just to talk. The Office Hours take place every Monday. Once a month, a specific theme will be discussed. On Monday 2 May from 16h30 until 17h00 the theme will be: How to motivate your students? Do you have any ideas on this topic or would you like some tips? Please come by to talk about this with fellow teachers, and also when you have any other questions!
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| From the Teaching and Learning Collection
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Assessment and Feedback
Are you interested in the course about formative assessment? The Teaching and Learning Collection also provides you with information about this. Here, a description of the teacher task Assessment and Feedback can be found, in which you can read about formative and summative assessment and the assessment cycle.
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