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Feedback: (Almost) Everything You Need to Know
Giving feedback means giving students input on how they perform in a specific assignment or process or on their (learning) behaviour. They can gain such input either from introspection or from others, i.e. lecturers, peers, a book, etc. Feedback is a means to narrow the gap between any given stage …
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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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How to Incorporate Internationalisation into Your Study Programme
Internationalisation in the Study Programme: Relevance?
Ghent University’s Integrated Policy Plan for Internationalisation 2019-2023 outlines the the benefits of an international experience for students as follows:
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Sustainability: how can you implement this into your teaching practice?
Many of the current societal challenges such as climate change and growing social inequality are wicked issues. This means that there is not only a scientific discussion about these issues (What factual knowledge is there about that theme? What exactly is the problem?), but also a social discussion. In the …
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Portfolio: a Versatile Teaching and Assessment Method
Are you looking for a way in which students can keep track of their learning progress? Or are you looking for an assessment method that allows room for student creativity? This and many other applications are possible with the portfolio.
What is a Portfolio?A portfolio is a …
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How to Incorporate a Policy on Diversity into Your Study Programme
Diversity in Your Study Programme: Relevance?
Today’s society is very diverse. Inevitably, this means that our university and our study programmes face a number of challenges. Society needs highly educated knowledge workers who know how to deal with the present diversity. It is important, therefore, that students learn to …
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Interdisciplinary Education: Preconditions for Success
According to Ghent University’s skills model, the Educational Concept and its six Strategic Objectives, students have to learn to cooperate in an interdisciplinary way. Study programmes should incorporate this interdisciplinary dimension purposefully and explicitly. This educational tip teaches you how to shape these interdisciplinary educational activities.
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How to Incorporate Language Proficiency into Your Study Programme
Is Language Proficiency Relevant in the Study Programme?
At Ghent University, we educate our students to be astute communicators, which is an essential skill in our network society. Students enhance their communication skills by training in academic and professional language skills during their studies. In most study programmes, these …
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The Basics of Designing a Study Programme
Have you always wanted to know more about the ins and outs of a study programme? Is Programme Committee membership something that appeals to you? And do you want to know more about Ghent University’s study programme quality assurance? Are you a newly invested Programme Committee Chair and have you …
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Project-based Education: a Cross-curricular Solution to a Complex Problem
Are you looking for a teaching method that allows students to tackle complex, interdisciplinary or cross-curricular issues? Do you want to enhance the integration of content and skills on the long term? Project-based education is a strong teaching method to reach these goals!
Project-based Education: What?A project …
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Diversity Policy: How Can Students Learn About and In Diversity in Your Programme?
Study programmes that want to focus on diversity give students the opportunity to acquire or reinforce specific diversity competencies. On the one hand, students must learn about diversity as a social reality in relation to their field. On the other hand, learning to collaborate and deal with difference is an …
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How can you set up entrepreneurial activities in your study programme?
Why are entrepreneurial activities relevant to your study programme?
Entrepreneurial activities are closely related to 21st-century skills such as creativity & innovation, problem-solving thinking and the capacity to adjust yourself to ever-changing circumstances. An entrepreneurial mindset prepares students for a future with new types of jobs, needs and issues.
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How to Put Internationalisation into (Your Teaching) Practice?
The Importance of Internationalisation in Teaching Practice
Internationalisation is often reduced to ‘study abroad’ initiatives or student exchange, but it entails so much more. Ghent University’s strategic objective “Internationalisation” aims to maximize opportunities to acquire international and intercultural competencies for all students, including “at-home” students. Find out how you …
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Cherry-Picking vs. Rocket Science: Choices and Opportunities for Tomorrow’s Education
Our education reverberates with yesterday’s crises and today’s challenges. Spurred on by individual lecturers and study programmes, Ghent University’s education community develops new practices to meet the needs of today’s professional field and society. Future-proof education, digital skills and lifelong learning take centre stage. But how can we capitalize …
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Software for Education: Our policy and its Implications Explained.
Policy
Since the 2026-2027 academic year, our university has a framework for managing and funding all our educational software. This is the so-called Ghent University Citadel model (in the mould of SURF, the IT cooperative of Dutch education and research institutions). Each educational functionality 1 is integrated into this …
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Critical thinking: how do you teach that?
Critical thinking is not inherent in human nature. People tend to look for arguments that support their opinion, and avoid, ignore or minimise counterarguments. However, it is a university’s job to familiarise students with the essential 21st-century ability to learn to think critically. But how do you integrate that into …
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Internationalization of Students and Lecturers in the Faculty
The following education tip provides inspiration to write Chapter 'Internationalization' of the Faculty Monitor. If applicable, separate suggestions are given for the PLAN and the DO. Plan
The faculty internationalisation policy plan is in line with Ghent University’s vision and is attuned to the objectives as formulated in …
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Why does Ghent University think work placements are important?
Ghent Universty attaches great importance to work placement because they offer an added value, both for the students and the programmes. This educational tip will discuss that added value. The tip is based on the Ghent University vision on work placements, as approved by the Educational Council.
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H5P: How to Build Interactive Learning Materials in Ufora
H5P is open source education technology for building interactive learning materials. It contains over 30 different content types for online learning pathways, including quizzes, presentations and online simulation exercises.
You can find this page now on the intranet: https://ugentbe.sharepoint.com/sites/intranet-ict/SitePages/en/H5P.aspx
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Online Lecture: Tips and Tricks for Interactive Lecturing
What Is It?
By online lectures, we mean synchronous remote teaching: lecturers use certain tools and/or software, and students take the class in real time. A common term for this is ‘webinar’ (from ‘web’ and ‘seminar’).
When to Opt for an Online Lecture? … Read more