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Curios
Curios is the online testing environment that is developed, maintained and supported by the Educational Technology Office of the Ghent University Information and Communication Technology Department. The environment has its own authoring environment and integrates smoothly with Ufora.
Curios is an extensive (and therefore somewhat more complex) testing environment with …
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Teaching Methods in a Study Programme
What?
A good curriculum is implemented through a varied set of teaching methods. If chosen well, the teaching (and assessment) methods will ensure that the final competencies (learning outcomes) at the level of the course unit are acquired as efficiently as possible. There should be a gradual and logical building-up …
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Transparency and communication within study programmes
The study programme’s vision on communication
The Programme Committee is the body that is responsible for the education policy, education organisation and quality assurance of a study programme. Various internal and external stakeholders (e.g. students, teachers, alumni, representatives of the professional field) are involved in the education (policy) process: it …
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Master's Dissertation Survey
Each year, final-year students are given the chance to give feedback on their study programme by means of the Study Programme Feedback. Since 2020, the Study Programme Feedback question set contains a separate section on the Master’s dissertation: all final-year students in a Master’s programme are asked to give feedback …
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Assessment and Exit Level
What?
The assessment of the curriculum is spread over the different course units. For each course unit, the final competencies are assessed in a suitable and high-quality fashion. The course-specific learning outcomes contribute to one or more programme-specific competencies. The entire set of assessments determines whether or not the students …
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The Faculty’s Education Policy
The following education tip provides inspiration to write the chapter on 'The Faculty’s Education Policy ' of the Faculty Monitor. If applicable, separate suggestions are given for the PLAN and the DO. Plan
In line with the Ghent University Quality Assurance Conduct (Dutch: Eigen Regie), the faculty draws up a …
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Exams: Deleting Questions Afterwards
How do you proceed when you notice afterwards that a particular exam question was wrong, unreasonably difficult or unclear? How do you delete a question from the exam set?
Avoid DeletingPrevention is better than cure:
draw up your exam properly, e.g. by following the technical rules for multiple-choice questions … Read more -
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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Keep Researching: Education Based on Excellent Research
The study programme is always based on cutting-edge research and the latest academic insights in the relevant fields. In addition, the study programme ensures that all students have the best opportunities to develop their research competencies and foster an attitude of academic integrity.
What?The …
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Assessment Principles
On 6 November 2014, the Education Council adopted a favourable position on a set of 17 assessment principles. This set contains general principles on how to assess students in view of the final exam mark.
The 17 assessment principles are an operationalization of Ghent University's Assessment Concept and Assessment Model …
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Competency Model: the Competencies Fostered in our Training Offer
Ghent University’s training offer for individual lecturers (developed by the Education and Study Programme Support Team) aims to foster your teaching competencies. Among other things, it comprises:
didactic competencies we consider an essential prerequisite for premium-quality education. These competencies contain a growth perspective and are used in education support initiatives … Read more -
Constribute: Stakeholder Participation
The study programme fosters an active dialogie with internal stakeholders, especially the students, and involves them in all aspects of education policy and quality assurance. The study programme involves external stakeholders (e.g. the professional field, alumni, policymakers, (inter)national experts, etc...) by collecting feedback on at least (a) the programme-specific learning … Read more -
Master's Dissertation: Points to Consider for the Study Programme
What?
The Master's dissertation is a research project that students carry out independently or collectively as a learning experience. In so doing, they acquire academic-scientific skills like setting up and conducting research, and interpreting, reporting and assessing research results. A supervisor monitors the entire process.
Expressed in ECTS credits, …
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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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Stakeholder Participation
At Ghent University, we expect every study programme to reflect on, and pursue an education policy that is an explicit implementation of our six strategic education objectives. One of these objectives is Stakeholder Participation.
We expect our programmes to set up processes and procedures to guarantee structural and …
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Learning conversation: a teaching method that gets more out of the students
Would you like to get more out of the students during the lesson? Use the learning conversation!
What is a learning conversation?A learning conversation is a conversation where you as a lecturer lead the student(s) to particular insights or solutions to a problem. As a lecturer, you ask structured …
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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 educational quality …
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What are the access requirements for a work placement?
In many cases, no specific access requirements are stipulated for an work placement, although exceptions exist:
A programme can demand strict sequentiality and certain starting competences, if this has been approved by the Registrar’s Office (cf. §41 of Ghent University’s education and examination code). The starting competencies can be … Read more -
Central Education Monitor
In order to fully understand the monitors it is important to be aware of the underlying PDCA model, the operational objectives and indicators. Click here for more information on how the PDCA model should be interpreted when consulting a monitor.
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What does the COP Work Placement do?
Ghent University has formed a Community of Practice about work placements (COP Work Placements) to support study programmes and work placement providers with learning process supervision of students undertaking an work placement.
This COP work placements offers primary information (for example: How can you phrase, realize and evaluate work placement … Read more