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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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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’).
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Online Learning in an International Setting: What and Why?
Online Learning in an International Setting: What?
The digitalisation of higher education offers new online learning opportunities within an international environment. Lecturers and study programmes can implement online international collaboration to promote the students’ international and intercultural learning and multiperspectivism without a long-term study abroad experience.
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Setting up Supervision and Intervision Conversations on the Work Placement
Supervision or intervision conversations transform work placement experiences into learning experiences in a process-oriented way. During such conversations, students become aware of their feelings, emotions, thoughts, attitudes, norms and values. This way, they gain a better understanding of their own actions, allowing for further self-development.
The difference …
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Apollo 8 - Project 3: Future-proof Study Programmes
Future-proof Education at Ghent University: What?
Prompted by economic, social and environmental needs, the transformation of higher education is at a tipping point.
Moreover, the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the digitalisation process and provided additional innovation opportunities. With this project, and based on criteria stipulated in various European …
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Excursion: Introducing Your Students to Real Contexts
Does exposing students to the real context of a company, organisation or project provide added value? Then take the students on a excursion
What is an Excursion?On a excursion, you take your students to a company, an organisation, an institution, a museum, etc. You can either guide …
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Exams: What to Do in Case of a Wrong Mark, a Student Complaint or Internal Appeals?
All lecturers will at some point in their career have to deal with student complaints, with appeals proceedings, or with having incorrectly marked an exam. The Education Tip below explains what you can do in each of these instances.
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How to Assess Written and Oral Assignments?
How to Assess
Assessing a written or oral assignment is not always a straightforward matter. A student’s final mark depends on and takes into account various criteria. Assessors must take care to:
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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 …
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How to Stimulate Students' Language Development?
As a lecturer, you can boost your students' academic language acquisition. Such a language-developing didactic approach is based on three pillars: creating a context, interacting with your students and offering language support. This educational tip explains the three pillars, illustrated with practical examples.
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Peer Assessment: Students Assessing Each Other
The method of peer assessment allows your students to also score each other's product in addition to providing content feedback (= peer feedback).
What is Peer Assessment?Using peer assessment or peer evaluation, students evaluate each other's input or performance by means of criteria that are either …
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How to Put Language Proficiency into (Your Teaching) Practice?
The Importance of Language Proficiency in Teaching Practice
Ghent University trains its students to become astute communicators (cf. Ghent University's Competency Model, competency area 4). Such a training is essential in our current network society. Throughout their studies, students learn to strengthen their communication skills by working on academic …
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Extend Horizons: Internationalisation in the Study Programme: Students and Staff
The study programme pursues an internationalisation policy vis-a-vis students and staff. It invests in international initiatives in the curriculum, student mobility, and Internationalisation@Home experiences. This helps students develop their international and cultural competencies.
What?Ghent …
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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: …
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How to Assess Group Work?
Think thoroughly about how to evaluate group work as the evaluation method strongly determines how the group functions. Determine in advance what you are evalutating. Determine who evaluates and make sure that the evaluation is valid, reliable and transparent.
What do you evaluate in group work?Determine, as …
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Curios
Curios is the online testing environment that is developed, maintained and supported by the Information and Communication Technology Division. The environment has its own authoring environment and integrates smoothly with Ufora.
Curios is an extensive (and therefore somewhat more complex) testing environment with specific attention to Ghent University guidelines …
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How to Hone Students’ Language and Intercultural skills for a Work Placement Abroad?
Preparation is key. This Education Tip focuses on the students’ preparation for a work placement abroad in terms of their language and intercultural skills.
How to Hone Students' Language Skills in Preparation of a Work Placement Abroad? In the case of a work context in which a … Read more -
Lecture Recordings at Ghent University: Policy Framework
Lecture recordings at Ghent University are implemented in a well-considered and feasible manner. This is based on research, the importance of on-campus presence, and our general Ghent education policy.
Evidence-basedRecent research into lecture recordings (Dommet et al., 2019; Bailly et al., 2022) tells us that:
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How to Organize (Blended) Practicals?
What is a practical? How do you prepare a practical? How do you ensure that students get the most out of your practical? This Education Tip provides answers to these questions and focuses closely on your role as a supervisor of practicals.
What is a Practical? a … Read more