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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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| At the start of this academic year, we celebrated the fifth anniversary of the Centre for Academic Teaching and Learning (CAT). After those five years, it is time for a fresh new image for the CAT, that once again focuses on the teacher interaction. You will come across the image in the header of this newsletter, on our website and on our Twitter account.
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| Get inspired at the Teaching and Learning Inspiration Days!
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| From 30 January to 3 February, the first edition of the Teaching & Learning Inspiration Days will take place. During this event, all teachers can gain inspiration to boost their teaching. For example, there will be sessions on motivation, blended learning, active education and much more. On Thursday 3 February, an information session on Artificial Intelligence has been added to the programme. Would you like to attend this session, but have you already signed up for other sessions? Please contact us via cat@uu.nl.
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| New development offer for teachers: on tools and assessment
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| In 2023, the Centre for Academic Teaching and Learning (CAT) will again offer interesting workshops and webinars. The offer from February to June is now being planned, but the sessions in February are already known. For example, you can learn more about the tool Grasple, which allows teachers to create their own e-modules and assignments, or you can participate in the workshop Effective Digital Assessment, where you will get to work with the online testing platform Remindo and learn what good test questions should comply with. Check out the February offer and sign up!
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| Save the date! OnderwijsFestival 9 maart 2023
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| On Thursday 9 March 2023, UU's premier education event will take place: the OnderwijsFestival. At this event, teachers, students and staff meet to exchange ideas and get inspired about education at UU. The theme of the OnderwijsFestival 2023 is: Gamechangers. Jij, ik, wij zijn het onderwijs. During this event, special attention will be focused on projects from teachers researching their own teaching, for which a call for proposals is currently open, and the winners of the Teacher Awards will be announced. Register to be kept informed in order to be notified as soon as the programme is complete and you can sign up.
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| Call for proposals ISSOTL conference
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| In November 2023, the International Society of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL) conference will take place in Utrecht, with the theme 'Context Matters'. At this international conference, participants will come together to share their experiences and work in the field of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). If you are involved or interested in systematic and evidence-based improvement of your teaching (SoTL), ISSOTL23 is the perfect opportunity to share and discuss your work with others. We would therefore like to invite you to submit a proposal.
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| Call for EUCEN 2023 extended!
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| Excellent news, the call for EUCEN 2023 has been extended! You can still submit your expertise on University Continuing Education (UCE) to EUCEN 2023 until the 1st of March 2023 and thus share it with colleagues from all over Europe. Different types of contributions can still be submitted, including contributions that support an evidence-based foundation for University Continuing Education (UCE), those on best practices in facilitating UCE within universities. This call targets researchers, practitioners and administrators as well as professionals and their organisations.
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| Kick-off event of the Pathways to Sustainability community on 6 March
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| With great pleasure, the Pathways to Sustainability community Sustainability Education and Engagement invites you to its kick-off event on 6 March from 15:00-17:00 in Utrecht, followed by drinks. There will be two keynote speakers: Prof Dr Henrik von Wehrden, sustainability dean at Leuphana University, will talk about Leuphana's innovative approach to sustainability education, and the second keynote (to be confirmed) will be on public engagement. Prof Tine Béneker, vice-dean of Education at the Faculty of Geosciences, will open the meeting. We are curious to hear your ideas, and those of your students, who are also welcome to attend, on the future of sustainability education at UU.
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Two new tools available UU-wide: Rationale and Comproved
Teachers who have a plan to innovate their teaching can start an innovation project. After successful pilots, two tools were recently approved and made available to all UU-teachers: Rationale helps to create reasoning diagrams, which students can use to structure large amounts of information and complex reasoning, and Comproved structures comparisons that allow comparative assessment. Please read the experiences of teacher Stephanie Kruiper (see image) with Comproved. Would you like to get started with these tool(s) yourself? Please contact teachingsupport@uu.nl or come to the information session on Wednesday 1 February.
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| The Future is now; how can we make better use of existing teaching spaces?
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| As part of the Future Learning Spaces project, we are developing innovative educational spaces in collaboration with teachers and students, such as the Hybrid Active Learning Classroom. Users are positive about these innovative spaces and would like to make more use of them. However, for now there are only 5 of these learning spaces. How can we make better use of the current learning spaces? What are your experiences? Which adjustments would you suggest and what could you do yourself? Please join the lunch meeting, organised with the Co-Creation Community, in the Learning Plaza (Minnaertgebouw), to brainstorm about this. Register by contacting fls@uu.nl or just come by.
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| Seven Community Engaged Learning educational projects honoured with funding
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| This year, seven new courses have been awarded a grant from the Community Engaged Learning programme. The grants were awarded to promote education in which students, teachers and external partners work together on societal issues. Two of the awarded projects, for example, focus on working with refugees on language modules, and helping to stop the growth of stray cat colonies. Read more about these and the other courses being (re)developed with help from the CEL Support Fund.
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| Annual conference EWUU alliance 19 april
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| On 19 April, the 2023 annual conference of the strategic alliance EWUU will take place in Wageningen. This year's theme will be: Crossing boundaries for a healthy and sustainable future. How can we restore planetary health by collaboration in science and education? You are cordially invited to contribute your own expertise and knowledge to this discussion.
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| News from the teaching community TAUU
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Join us for the writing and applying workshop focused on student wellbeing
On 9 February, we are organising a session from the teaching community TAUU for teachers who have an idea on improving student wellbeing. During this session, you will have the chance to develop your idea into an application for an activity paid for by NPO funds. Are you a teacher and do you have such an idea, but are you lacking the funds to implement it? Please be sure to join this session to work on your idea.
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| From the Teaching and Learning Collection
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Motivation in students, what do students themselves think?
Motivation sometimes seems to be the magic word in education. Besides the scientific studies conducted on this topic, teachers also ponder this topic on a daily basis. But what do students themselves think about this? Students Luna van Hofslot and Maartje Orsel wrote an article about this with practical tips for teachers. The article emerged from a session of UU's Student think tank.
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