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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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Coherent Curriculum: Translating the Programme-Specific Competencies (Learning Outcomes)
The study programme implements its programme-specific learning outcomes/competencies (OLR) adequately based on the principle of constructive alignment and ensures that the OLR, teaching methods, and assessment are coherent throughout. The study programme implements its programme-specific learning outcomes/competencies (OLR) through several course units and ensures alignment and … Read more
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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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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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MOOCs: Massive Open Online Courses
Are you interested in using high-quality online learning materials developed by other universities? This Education Tip will tell you more about MOOCs and how they can be implemented in your course unit.
What is a MOOC?MOOC stands for Massive Open Online Course:
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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 …
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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 Nurture Students' Language Development?
As a lecturer, you can boost your students' academic language acquisition. This language-nurturing approach rests on three pillars: creating a context, interacting with your students and offering language support. This Education Tip explains the three pillars and illustrates them with practical examples.
How to Create a Context?…
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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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What to Expect of Students' Language Skills?
What language skills can you expect from your students, both for Dutch and other languages? How does the UGent assist them to improve their language skills and how can you help as a lecturer? And what can you demand with regards to the standard of their emails? This 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 …
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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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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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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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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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Student Presentations
Presentations, be they individual or in group, are a good way to assess the students’ language skills in combination with their knowledge, understanding and application. Read up on some tips here!
What is the “Presentation” Assessment Method?A presentation allows individual students or a group of students to …
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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.
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Digital tools and methods: a faculty-wide Ufora course Digital Humanities: Learning Paths
In the context of the faculty educational innovation project ‘learning path digital literacy’ (in Dutch), the Faculty of Arts & Philosophy developed a faculty-wide Ufora course on digital tools and methods. This concept of a shared faculty learning platform makes it possible to bring expertise together and to spread …
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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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