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So how do other lecturers do it? What if you could observe another lecturer? Or that another lecturer observes you and that you can talk about it afterwards. Does that seem like an interesting way to learn from each other? Then sign up for the peer observation programme.
During the Peer Observation programme, you observe each other while teaching. Experience shows that observing is at least as instructive as being observed. Several participants shared their experiences on the website of the TAUU lecturers' community.
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| Online webinars and workshops for teachers
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| Want to gain innovative knowledge about teaching in one or two hours? Want to learn how to use tools that can help you realise an inclusive curriculum and learning environment? The partners in the CAT will again organise an extensive range of short webinars and workshops. For a complete overview, see the CAT agenda.Β On 11 October, for example, there will be a lunch lecture by Lotte Henrichs (UU Outstanding Teacher Award 2021): 'Connecting communities. How your research, your professional network and questions from the field can strengthen your teaching'.
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| Retrospective on Leoniek Wijngaards-de Meij's inaugural lecture
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More attention must be paid to the professionalisation of the lecturer. This process must begin during the doctoral programme and continue until the professorship. This is what Leoniek Wijngaards-de Meij, who was appointed professor last year, says in her recently delivered inaugural lecture. Leoniek Wijngaards-de Meij is Vice Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Principal Fellow at the Centre for Academic Teaching at Utrecht University. She is the first professor to become a professor through the UU's Senior Fellow programme. Her oration can be viewed on Youtube.
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| Reshaping the Academic Self: Connecting Education & Open Science β a manifesto by Sicco de Knecht; Martijn van der Meer; Loek Brinkman; Manon Kluijtmans; Frank Miedema
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| The transition towards Open Science will drastically alter our approach to academic life. It will change the ways in which we reward and recognise university employees and reshape the relationship between education and research. This should be reflected in how a new generation of academics and citizens are educated. The aim of university education should be preparing future graduates to share their (inter)disciplinary knowledge, engage with societal stakeholders, and shape tomorrowβs society. This manifesto is a thought exercise that explores the (possible) relationships between Open Science and education.
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| Workshops Career Services for postdocs and temporary lecturers
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| From August 2021, Utrecht University is running a pilot in which part of the 'PhD only' workshops of the UU Career Services will be open to temporary lecturers and postdocs from Utrecht University and UMC Utrecht, too. This pilot is intended to offer postdocs and temporary lecturers better support in their professional development and career orientation. In the future, more pilots will follow. The workshops are free of charge. They will take place until November 2021.
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| On 5 October we celebrate the Diversity Day, 11 October is the Coming Out Day; from 4 to 8 Oktober we have the Week of Accessibility, and from van 11 to 14 oktober the Week of Security. Altogether, that is a whole lot of attention for the topics of the Equality, Diversity & Inclusion programme within one single month. It makes October our Diversity Month.
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| News from the teaching community TAUU
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| The Teaching & Learning Lab's Fall Festival: the education of the future
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| During the yearly Autumn Festival, we focus on the innovation of our education. This year, the central theme of the festival is βthe education of the futureβ, with a special focus on flexible learning. Keynote speaker Arthur Bakker will tell us about his research on student motivation, with special focus on the last year and a half. After the introduction and official opening of the Hybrid Active Learning Classroom, you can participate in various online, physical and hybrid workshops.
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| Open your course to a refugee
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Education is the key for refugees to start a productive and independent life in the Netherlands. It helps them integrate into their new society on an academic and social level.
Incluusion offers refugees the chance to follow free bachelor courses at the UU. This cannot be done without your help! As a teacher, you can make one or multiple places available for refugee students in your course(s). Here you can find practical information on how to contribute. Incluusion has been around for five years now. What has been achieved in that time? Read about it on the website.
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| Totally flipped: Learning Italian grammar
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| Mastering the grammar of a new language requires, above all, a great deal of practice, but the time to do so has become less in the recent years, Italian lecturers Carlo Giordano and Luisa Meroni found. Therefore, they looked for a way to give their students enough time to practice Italian grammar. Through the Educational Resources Pool (EMP, in Dutch: Educative Middelen Pool) they were given time and support to put their idea into practice: capovolgèndo la classe! Or: flipping the classroom.
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| Dean and programme manager for Interdisciplinary Education appointed
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| The Executive Board has appointed Iris van der Tuin, Professor of Theory of Cultural Inquiry and until recently Director of Education of the School of Liberal Arts at the Faculty of Humanities, as Dean of Interdisciplinary Education at Utrecht University with effect from 1 September 2021. Van der Tuin will lead the Interdisciplinary Education programme in the coming four years together with programme manager Joki van de Poel. Van de Poel is head of education policy at the Faculty of Social Sciences.
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| Call for papers: Integrative sustainability education: emerging concepts and approaches
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| Tackling the complex challenges and interlinked elements of sustainability require integrative knowledge and skills to be able to reach across disciplines, actors from all parts of society, scales, challenges etc. This is a so far under-represented topic in the scientific literature on sustainability education and we aim to address it in our special issue in the Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences. We invite interested authors to consider the following dimensions as starting points for defining integration in their articles: sustainability in educational programming, student population, co-curricular activities, institutional level, disciplines/stakeholder engagement, and sustainability issues/challenges.
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| How do you develop education aimed at professionals with appropriate quality assurance?
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| Professionals learn differently than students and also have different priorities. Continuing Education's recent workshop on education and quality assurance provided more information on educational concepts for professionals. What works and what should you be aware of when designing programs for professionals? How is the quality of this type of education monitored? The answers to these and more questions were discussed by Michelle Veugelers in this workshop. Missed the workshop? Read the answers and tips in this FAQ.
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| From the Educational Database
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THERMOS: providing feedback for students via a Learning Analytics Dashboard
The Thermos project developed a feedback instrument (THERMOS dashboard) that provides students with insight and actionable feedback on their study behavior. The developed dashboard was piloted in six study programs in 20/21, across different faculties of Utrecht University (UU), including those located at University Medical Center Utrecht (UMCU). The follow-up project βThermos for UUβ starts in 21/22 and will further focus on the implementation process in collaboration with more study programs across UU and the UMCU.
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