Education Tips

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 …

Motivating Students to Come to Class Prepared

If you want to use your instruction period as efficiently as possible, you might consider giving your students one or more preparatory assignments. This Education Tip explains how to motivate your students to come to class prepared.

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What minimum quality requirements should a work placement meet?

To ensure an efficient work placement policy, it is important for a programme to reflect sufficiently on the why, the how and the what of the work placement. In this educational tip, you can discover the minimum quality requirements for a work placement. The tip is based on the Ghent …

Self-authoring Tool for Interactive Learning Pathways (Project 6.2)

A self-authoring tool for interactive learning pathways, sometimes also known as an e-authoring tool, is a specially designed software that enables lecturers to develop various digital learning activities and support elements, to share them with students and colleagues and to adapt and re-use them. A self-authoring tool goes …

Ghent University’s Quality Conduct 3.0: Lean, Efficient and Based on Trust

Study programmes and faculties at Ghent University nowadays stand for premium-quality academic education that is being monitored through an internal quality assurance system, i.e. the so-called Eigen Regie 2.0.

This system has been introduced in response to the mandate given to higher education institutions by the legislator to …

Publicly Available Information: a Style Guide

At Ghent University we continuously focus on quality assurance and quality culture. Ghent University's quality assurance system offers easily accessible and validated information on each study programme’s unique selling points, strengths and weaknesses. In this Education Tip you will find out why we provide ‘publicly available information’, who is our …

Lecturers’ Surveys at Ghent University

In the run-up to the institutional review, Ghent University held a lecturers’ survey for the first time in 2015 (in Dutch). The purpose of this survey was to compare the lecturers’ input to the input of other interal and external stakeholders (students, alumni, …). The survey is organized on …

“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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MS Teams for online lectures

MS Teams is a communication and collaboration platform that integrates chat options, video conferencing and file storage within SharePoint. The tool allows for video calls with groups of up to 1000 participants and has a number of interaction opportunities.

You can find this page on the intranet: …

Study Groups

What Are Study Groups?

Study groups are groups of students who meet at regular intervals to process the learning contents, to help each other and to get to know each other, either under supervision or not.

Why Work with Study Groups?

Studying in group has many advantages. …

How to Determine the Quality of a Work Placement?

The quality of an work placement is directly linked to the efficiency of the students' learning process. That is why Ghent University puts great store by safeguarding the quality of its work placements. Found out how in the following Education Tip.

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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 …

Warm Welcome: The Basics (What and Why)

Why Organise a Warm Welcome?

The first weeks and months at Ghent University are crucial for new students. After all, during that period they lay the foundation for getting acquainted with the study programme, lecturers and fellow-students. A smooth introduction will have a positive influence on their study career …

Work Placement at Ghent University: Administrative Formalities

If a student does a work placement at Ghent University, they need to do the following paperwork:

a work placement contract (in Dutch): Ghent University students who embark on a curricular work placement at Ghent University use the same work placement contract as Ghent University students embarking on … Read more

How can you avoid disputes during a work placement?

Complaints about the evaluations of work placements are firstly processed by the Institutional Appeal Committee (UGent) and, if the student does not agree with the decision, the Council for Disputes concerning Decisions on Study Progress (external appeal). These complaints usually involve the documentation and argumentation of negative final results by …

Comprehensive Video Solution (Project 6.1)

To be able to support our students’ learning process in the best possible way, we strive towards a second generation digital learning environment. An important element in this endeavour is a comprehensive video solution, by means of which lecturers and students can record, play back, edit, share and re-use …

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