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Digital Annotation: Tips and Tricks
Digital annotation adds dynamism to your online or hybrid lessons (in a classroom). Digital annotation is a tool to accentuate, add, or structure something. It allows you e.g. to emphasize a concept, underline a core element, add an example, map a process, or make a train of thought explicit. In …
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Education and Quality Assurance Updates
Updates january 2025 GENERAL Feedback after the Exam Period
Every student has a right to feedback after the exams. Please read up on the practicalities of organising feedback, the power of feedback, and which tools to use in our Education Tip on Feedback.
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Online Written Assessments (with Open and/or Multiple Choice Questions)
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Open-book Exams: Assessing Complex Competencies
In this education tip you will get introduced to different types of open-book exams, when you can use an open-book exam, the practical guidelines you should take into account during the open-book exam and how to assess it afterwards.
Open-book Exams: What?An open-book exam is an assessment in which …
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MOOCs: Massive Open Online Courses
Are you interested in using high-quality online learning materials developed by other universities? This Education Tip will tell you more about MOOCs and how they can be implemented in your course unit.
What is a MOOC?MOOC stands for Massive Open Online Course:
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On-Campus Written Exams: Open-Ended Questions
This Education Tip containts information on different types of open-ended questions, when to use them, how to design high-quality open-ended questions and how to mark them.
What are Open-Ended Questions?Open-ended questions are questions to which students have to produce their own answer. There are several types of open-ended questions, …
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The Answer Key: a Tool to Objectively Mark Open-Ended Questions
As lecturer, you need mark as objectively as possible. An answer key can help you with that. This Education Tip explains why and how.
What is an Answer Key?An answer key or model answer includes a list of what should be included in an answer and the marks you …
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Lecture Recordings at Ghent University: Policy Framework
Lecture recordings at Ghent University are implemented in a well-considered and feasible manner. This is based on research, the importance of on-campus presence, and our general Ghent education policy.
Evidence-basedRecent research into lecture recordings (Dommet et al., 2019; Bailly et al., 2022) tells us that:
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Work Placement Allowance: Can Trainees Receive a Compensation for their Work?
Is the work placement taking place in Belgium?
Belgian/Flemish law stipulates that trainees must not be paid a salary. However, the host organisation may decide to meet the trainee's expenses in the form of an allowance (either a lump sum or a reimbursement of proven expenses) for the duration of …
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Being approachable as a lecturer: how do you do that?
If students dare to ask you something quickly, this contributes to a safe learning environment. It stimulates the students’ motivation to participate in the lectures. Therefore, the course evaluations by students check, amongst other things, how approachable you are as a lecturer. But how do you make yourself approachable as …
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ENLIGHT: European University
ENLIGHT is a consortium of 9 European partners: it unites the universities of the Basque Country (ES-PV), Bordeaux (FR), Bratislava (SK), Galway (IE), Göttingen (DE), Groningen (NL), Tartu (EE), Uppsala (SE) and Ghent (BE).
Under coordination of Ghent University ENLIGHT was selected in the framework of the second call for …
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Independent Work: Supporting Students to Process Learning Materials Properly
Do you expect your students to process teaching material individually and independently? Have you noticed that students do not always know how to get started? Then independent work is the solution.
What is Independent Work?Not all teaching material is covered in class. Students should acquire and process parts …
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Generative AI in Ghent University Education: Impact and Approach
Latest update: 11 September 2024
Generative AI tools impact Ghent University education, the intended competencies/learning outcomes we want to foster, and the way we teach and assess. Read the following Education Tip to learn about generative AI and the Ghent University guidelines. Take a look at the outline of options …
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Right of Inspection for Students
Regulations and Procedure
The following addition has been included in the Higher Education Codex with regard to the right of inspection, taking immediate effect (i.e. from the current 2019-2020 academic year onwards):“With regard to examinations, the principle of public access to documents means that students are entitled to receiving …
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Web Lectures: a Practical Example from the Faculty of Sciences
Web lectures are recordings of e.g. a presentation, or extracts from a lecture, reading or workshop. If you want to find out how to make the most of web lectures, you can find some inspiration below. This education tip brings you a number of good practices from the Faculty of …
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Voluntary work placements: operational framework
On June 29, 2020, the Education Council of Ghent University approved the policy text ‘Ghent University vision on work placement’. This note includes the following about voluntary work placements:
Allowing voluntary work placements and activities in Belgium and abroad is a faculty decision. Voluntary work placements are work placements and … Read more -
Feedback after the Exam Period
In accordance with Article 60 of the Education and Examination Code, every student has the right to receive content-related feedback (this must takes place within the feedback period). This feedback is an important element of the student’s learning process.
This Education Tip delves deeper into:
the regulations for scheduling feedback …
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How to Put Social Impact into (Your Teaching) Practice?
Why is Social Impact Relevant to Your Course Unit(s)?
Your course unit is part and parcel of a study programme, and as such it prepares graduates for taking up an active role in society. Lecturers and study programmes are crucial in shaping that role. Whether the focus is solely on …
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Assessment: What to Do in the Event of Cheating, Plagiarism and Other Irregularities?
Sooner or later, a lecturer will be confronted with an irregularity during an assessment. This Education Tip tells you what to do when you establish cheating or plagiarism (the Education Tip ‘Exams: How to Avoid Errors and Cheating?' focuses on how to prevent cheating).
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What to Do in Case of Lost Exam Copies or Papers?
It is every lecturer’s nightmare: losing a student’s exam copy or paper. Find out here how to prevent this from happening, and what to do if it happens anyway.
How to Avoid Lost Exam Copies or Papers?As a lecturer, you are responsible for finding out if a student submitted …
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