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Transparency and Communication
The following education tip provides inspiration to write Chapter 'Transparency and Communication ' of the Faculty Monitor. If applicable, separate suggestions are given for the PLAN and the DO. Plan
Identify in general terms:
the target audiences the faculty wishes to reach; the topics the faculty wishes to communicate … Read more -
Assessment Matrix: the Perfect Tool for Valid Assessments
If you want to take a closer look at your assessment (methods), we can offer you an excellent tool to help: the assessment matrix. The education tip below provides you with more information.
What is an Assessment Matrix?An assessment matrix is a two-dimensional summary table that displays the answers …
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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, we ask …
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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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Education Based on Excellent Research
The following education tip provides inspiration to write Chapter 'Education Based on Excellent Research' of the Faculty Monitor. If applicable, separate suggestions are given for the PLAN and the DO. Plan
Ghent University aims to provide education that is maximally embedded within the dynamics of academic research. Academic creativity, …
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What is a Work Placement Manual?
The work placement manual is a documentation set or handbook that the study programme and the work placement supervisor compile for the student. The work placement manual describes:
the administrative steps to be taken before, during and after the work placement (in Dutch); the expectations the study programme has vis-à-vis … Read more -
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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How to Organize Work Placement Observations?
Both the work placement supervisor and the work placement mentor can observe the students during their work placement. How often this happens, depends on various factors (such as the year of study, the characteristics of the work placement, the experience the students have with work placements, the number of students). …
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Communication Tools in Ufora: an Overview
Clear and structured communication via Ufora is an absolute necessity for your students, especially in times of online or blended education. This page discusses how best to communicate, i.e. which are the proper Ufora tools.
You can find this page now on intranet: https://ugentbe.sharepoint.com/sites/intranet-ict/SitePages/en/Communiceren-via-Ufora.aspx?connectsource=TopicNavigator
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Academic Writing in a Nutshell: How to Put This Ufora Learning Pathway into (Your Teaching) Practice?
If your students have to make writing assignments (using academic Dutch) and you want to support them in the process, you might consider referring them to the Ufora learning pathway ‘Academic Writing in a Nutshell’. This Education Tip explains the contents of the learning pathway, how students can get to work …
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What Is Constructive Alignment and Why Is It So Important?
What is Constructive Alignment?
Constructive alignment means bringing into alignment the predetermined competencies, the learning and teaching activities, and the assessment types. It is one of the most influential principles in higher education.
When designing a programme or course unit, you should consider the following three questions:
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Stakeholder Participation
The following education tip provides inspiration to write Chapter 'Stakeholder Participation' of the Faculty Monitor. If applicable, separate suggestions are given for the PLAN and the DO. Plan
The faculty pursues a policy that is attuned to the university-wide strategic objectives regarding stakeholder participation, and which guarantees a structural (and …
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Preparing for the lecture: how do you stimulate that?
Do you want to use your lecturing time as efficiently as possible? Then sometimes it is necessary for students to complete one or more assignments in advance. With this education tip your students will turn up to your lectures prepared.
Tips for preparing students for your lecture Emphasise the importance … Read more -
Education and Examination Code
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Education Vision: Educational Strategy
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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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Referral Card: What Referral Services Are There?
Lecturers sometimes receive questions that go beyond the scope of their official teaching assignment: students want to talk about personal problems, want to refresh basic knowledge that they need for the course unit, send questions to which they should have known the answer for a long time, etc.
With such …
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Some Inspirational Blueprints for a Blended Redesign of Your Course Unit
What is a Blueprint?
A blueprint is a schematic visualization of your course unit. It contains the following elements:
clusters within your course unit; intermediate goals of those clusters; teaching methods; assessment methods; feedback methods.A blueprint generates a clear overview of your course unit’s structure, for your own use …
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How to Prepare Students for Work Placement Assessment?
Right from the start of the work placement, make sure to discuss all aspects of the assessment (by whom, what, how and when) with all the people involved. The assessment will be more fair, consistent, objective and substantiated if the following elements are clear from the start:
what are the … Read more -
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 education-related developments, and …
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