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Omeka S: improving digital literacy through virtual exhibitions
What is Omeka S?
Omeka S(emantic) is a free and user-friendly open-source web publishing platform that allows you to
create, manage and share a digital collection of metadata; build a virtual exhibition through various media.Omeka S focuses on institutions and researchers who want to share their collection or research …
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Interim Assessment: an Overview of the Possibilities
During teaching, it is important to build in moments of interim assessment at so-called ‘key moments’. This way you can not only determine a score (i.e. assessment of learning), but also get information on how students are progressing in their learning process (i.e. assessment for learning). Interim assessment …
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On-Campus Written Exam: Closed Questions
This Education Tip contains information on different types of closed questions, when to use them, how to design high-quality closed questions and how to assess them.
What are Closed Questions?Closed questions require the student to recognize the correct answer and choose one or more options from a list of …
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Ghent University’s Competency Model
Increased national and European focus on learning outcomes led Ghent University to develop its own competency model in 2005. The model’s emphasis is on the acquisition and application of knowledge, skills and attitudes in complex theoretical and/or specific situations.
The model consists of six competency areas, each including competencies on …
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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.
Various formats, with …
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Course Sheets: How to Complete Them Correctly?
General Information on Course Sheets What is a Course Sheet and Why is a Good Course Sheet Important?
A course sheet contains a description of a course unit's content and organisation and can be found in the study guide.
A course sheet:
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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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Voice problems: how do you prevent them?
As a lecturer, you depend on your voice. However, there are many lecturers who suffer from voice problems. With these education tips you will be on your way to becoming The Voice of the UGent.
Pay attention to your body postureBe sure to stand in front of the classroom, …
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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 on …
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On-campus and Online Oral Assessments
Find out here how to draw up and organise an oral exam, what points to consider when administering and assessing the exam, and what to keep in mind in the case of an online exam.
What is Oral Assessment?During oral assessments, individual students or groups of students answer questions …
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Work Placement Competencies: Points to Consider
A high-quality work placement starts with a clear set of work placement competencies. Taking its cue from Ghent University's vision on work placements, as approved by the Educational Council this Education Tip highlights what points to consider with regard to work placement competencies.
If you want to come up with …
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Fieldwork: Students Gaining Real-Life Experience
Do you want to give students a first real-life experience to ensure that they develop (technical) skills and also positively influence their attitude towards their field of study? Then fieldwork may be a suitable extension to your teaching practice.
What is Fieldwork?Fieldwork is a teaching method that allow students …
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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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Entrepreneurial Action: How to Put it Into (Your Teaching) Practice?
Teaching students to think and act in an entrepreneurial way is an important challenge for education. An entrepreneurial attitude prepares students for a future with new types of jobs, new social needs and complex problems.
Many people usually only associate entrepreneurship with starting or running their own business or company, …
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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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Think Broadly: Dare to Think and Multiperspectivism
The study programme delivers graduates with specialised expertise in at least one discipline, who can see the correlation between other disciplines and interact with them. A critical mindset, different perspectives, open-mindedness, pluralism, and tolerance of other opinions are key elements in the study programme's education practice. In …
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Glossaries: a Uniform Overview of Teaching and Assessment Methods
What are Glossaries?
Lecturers use the course sheet(s) to indicate which combination of teaching and assessment methods they use in their course unit(s). Our course sheets, and therefore also our students, benefit from clarity and uniformity. Therefore it is important that we all use “the same language”. For that purpose, …
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Work Placements Abroad: Tackling Practicalities and Adminstration
The preparation time needed to tackle the administration and practicalities for a work placement abroad depends on the destination. Always be sure to check the FPS Foreign Affairs’ travel advice first. If the FPS has issued a negative travel advice, students cannot go abroad for a work placement at that …
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Dyslexia: How Can You Help?
Students with dyslexia show pronounced problems with their reading pace, which means that it takes them much longer to review, process and study written learning materials. Texts written by students with dyslexia lack structure and are often less enjoyable to read. Before you assess the texts, it is useful to …
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Deferred Exam: When is a Student's Absence Legitimate?
What are legitimate reasons for a student to be absent from an exam and be entitled to a deferred exam? What are not legitimate reasons? You will find out in this Education Tip.
What are Legitimate Reasons of Absence from Exams?If a student is absent on the day of …
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