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| Centre for Academic Teaching
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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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| Inspiration for your teaching? Participate in the Strengthen Your Education Week 2022
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The next winter edition will take place from 31 January to 4 February 2022. The week starts with a keynote on how the Westerveld framework can help you optimise feedback processes. And do you want to know everything about the new Video Platform UU, which allows you to easily record, edit and share knowledge clips with students? Or how to monitor your students' well-being? Learn more about how to evaluate your teaching? These are just a few examples of the total offer.
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| Students nominate 34 teachers for UU Teaching Awards
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| To stimulate teachers to continually invest in their teaching and to reward their education, Utrecht University has granted the annual Teaching Awards since 1994. Teachers that are starting out can be nominated for the Teacher Talent Award, senior teachers for the Outstanding Teacher Award.
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| Satisfaction is no criterion for teaching quality
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| In a new statement entitled “Concerns and recommendations on the use of student satisfaction in measuring teaching quality” the League of European Research Universities (LERU) warns against the common practice to use student satisfaction surveys for the assessment of university teachers or as a criterion for evaluating teaching quality. Instead, one should focus on different components of teaching and learning, including the students’ perception of various aspects of the teaching-learning environment. CAT director Manon Kluijtmans co-wrote: “Student satisfaction does NOT equal educational quality. Hence crucial to assess academic teaching through a narrative underpinned with a broad spectrum of indicators.”
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| 'Entrepreneurial skills allow you to still take action in an uncertain situation'
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| Learning to deal with uncertainty is one of the most important entrepreneurial skills. How do teachers help their students develop this skill? Rianne Poot, programme manager of the UU Centre for Entrepreneurship, explains and shares some practical tips for teachers who would like to make their education more entrepreneurial.
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| 'Call for Proposal' corona-achterstanden bij studenten
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| The Dutch government has allocated funds to Utrecht University to repair corona deficits among students. This involves both academic and social disadvantages. If you have a project that can contribute to solving these issues, it is possible to submit a request for financial support.
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| "I was given the time and space to develop a course for professionals.”
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| How do I start developing education for professionals? And where do I find the time? These are questions that university lecturer René Koekkoek also encountered. "I was given the time and space to develop this course for professionals. That was a big relief. When I applied for funding, it went smoothly. I applied for more than contact hours and this was approved. This gave me space to develop the course." In the interview with René, you can read more about his experiences and the obstacles that he overcame.
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| Online webinars and workshops for teachers
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| This November, a university-wide team has been established that aims to create a vision, IT infrastructure, and support system concerning Learning Analytics projects. If you as a teacher/researcher are working on a learning analytics project, we would love to hear from you (Anouschka van Leeuwen). Another related development is that Utrecht University has become an Institutional Member in the Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR), meaning that all UU-employees can become individual SoLAR members for free and can get a discount on attending the LAK-conference. To become a member, go to the website, select individual membership, and enter the following code: 2022-utrecht.
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| Opening hours Teaching Support
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| The University will be closed from 25 December to 2 January. This also goes for Teaching Support. From 3 January Teaching Support will be open again.
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| News from the teaching community TAUU
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TAUU Office Hours
The TAUU council would like to invite you to the TAUU Office Hours. Apart from our online exchanges on the TAUU forum, we would like to get in touch with the UU teaching community in a more informal and personal way to exchange ideas and advice. Every Monday, you can drop by during a scheduled time slot. One of the upcoming Office Hours this year will be during the Strengthen-Your-Education-Week on 31 January, feel free to come by after your day full of workshops!
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| From the Educational Database
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Top 5 most visited items in the Educational Database in 2021
What items were the most frequently viewed in the Educational Database this year? First up is "Learning Objectives and Bloom's Taxonomy" (2,951 page views). Here are the top 5!
1. Leerdoelen en de taxonomie van Bloom (Dutch only)
2. Learning activities (overzicht)
3. Motivatie bij studenten (Dutch only)
4. Toolbox Diversity in Education
5. Ontwikkelen van een curriculum (Dutch only)
The average time on the site is over 4.5 minutes. Articles are therefore well read and this undoubtedly benefits the improvement of education. So Bloom's article on learning objectives is popular. After setting learning objectives, the next step is to check whether they are being met. Take a look at the item about test forms (in Dutch only) [https://cat-database.sites.uu.nl/knowledge_item/toetsvormen/]. Three items from the top 5 are currently only available in Dutch. Translating these items is high on our action list for next year! If you have any tips, ideas and/or questions, please send an e-mail to: educationaldatabase@uu.nl.
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