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Virtual Mobility
Virtual Mobility: What?
Virtual mobility entails students taking one or more online course units at a foreign partner institution without physical travel. An internationally recognisable term for this principle is online distance courses. The co-ordinating institution awards the credits (ECTS), which are then recognised in the student’s home curriculum.
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Dyslexia: How Can You Help?
Students with dyslexia show pronounced problems with their reading pace, which means that it takes them much longer to review, process and study written learning materials. Texts written by students with dyslexia lack structure and are often less enjoyable to read. Before you assess the texts, it is useful to …
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Educational Quality Assurance Unit: Procedures and Improvement Policy
The following education tip provides inspiration to write Chapter 'Educational Quality Assurance Unit: Procedures and Improvement Policy' of the Faculty Monitor. If applicable, separate suggestions are given for the PLAN and the DO. Plan
Describe the faculty’s vision on the role of the EQCU (Dutch: CKO) in faculty …
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How to Assess Participation?
We all want our students to be involved and to participate actively in class. But how to assess that?
What is Participation?Participation includes students' commitment to e.g. talks, discussions, practicals, exercises... Please note, however, that the assessment of participation can only to a limited extent count towards …
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What to Do in Case of Lost Exam Copies or Papers?
Every lecturer’s nightmare is losing a student’s exam copy or paper. Find out how to prevent this, and what to do if it happens anyway.
How to Avoid Losing Exam Copies or Papers?As a lecturer, you are responsible for determining if a student submitted an exam copy …
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Virtual Exchange
Virtual Exchange: What?
Virtual Exchange (VE) and Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) are interchangeable. They denote a teaching method in which lecturers and students from different countries come together to learn, discuss and collaborate as part of their course unit. The lecturers team up to design collaborative online teaching …
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How to Stimulate Devoting Attention to Diversity Within Your Lecturing Team?
"We should not focus on best practices, but on best practitioners” (Prof. dr. Estela Mara Bensimon)
Do not underestimate the role of lecturers in students’ study career: in addition to being supervisors of the learning process, they set an example, sometimes even as role models …
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“First-Class Icebreakers”: Suggestions for Small and Large Student Groups
Icebreakers are a way of welcoming students and giving them the opportunity to get to know each other. The use of an icebreaker can make it easier for students to reach out to each other, and the lecturer, more easily afterwards.
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What Is Our No-Show Policy?
Participation is free of charge for UGent staff. If you register for a training course as a UGent staff member, you agree with the cancellation policy below:
CancellationThe training sessions are free of charge and open to Ghent University staff. If you cannot attend the training session, …
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Teaching in a Hybrid Setting
Teaching in a Hybrid Setting: What?
Teaching in a hybrid setting means that part of the students physically attends the lecture on campus, and that another part simultaneously attends the lecture online. Students attending the lecture online can either choose to attend individually (from home or from their student …
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Work Placements Abroad: Tackling Practicalities and Adminstration
The preparation time needed to tackle the administration and practicalities for a work placement abroad depends on the destination. Always be sure to check the FPS Foreign Affairs’ travel advice first. If the FPS has issued a negative travel advice, students cannot go abroad for a work placement at that …
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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 …
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Online Teaching Community
For Whom?
The online teaching community welcomes lecturers, education support staff, and all other staff members contributing to education at Ghent University.
What?An easily accessible MS Teams platform brings together colleagues from related disciplines, or working with similar teaching methods. Members acquire better insight into new …
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Response Lecture (Online)
What is it?
During a response or interaction lecture, students discuss and delve into structured subject matter, they answer questions related to this subject matter and, conversely, you offer them an explicit opportunity to ask you, the teacher, about any uncertainties. Since a response lecture falls under the heading …
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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 …
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How to Efficiently Check Work Placement Documents?
Work placement folders or portfolios are often used as instruments to supervise and assess work placements. A considerable disadvantage of these, however, is that they take a lot of time to check afterwards. Try to find a balance between an assignment that can be checked in a limited amount of …
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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 …
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Faculty Education Services (FDO)
The following Education Tip offers inspiration to write Chapter 'Faculty Education Services (FDO)' of the Faculty Monitor. If applicable, separate suggestions are given for the PLAN and the DO. Plan
Every faculty has extensive Faculty Education Services (Dutch: FDO), which are led by the Director of Studies. The …
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Language policy UGent: enhancing academic language skills
UGent wants to develop the academic language skills of its students and lecturers. Language skills are a necessary, but not the only, condition for study success. On 12 October 2017, the Education Council adopted a Language Policy paper (in Dutch).
What is the Language Policy paper?In a …
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Deducting Marks for Spelling Mistakes?
To deduct marks for spelling mistakes, or not to deduct marks for spelling mistakes? That is the question. The answer is yes, but only if you have included language competencies in your course unit's competencies. If not, the answer is no.
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