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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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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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Simulation education: a realistic, safe learning environment
Do you want to offer students opportunities to learn from real-life situations? Do you want to make this possible in a safe learning environment? Then working with simulations is a good option!
What is simulation education?In simulation education, you mimic a realistic context to give students the …
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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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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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Opt for Quality: Programme Committee (PC): Procedures and Improvement Policy
The study programme is run by an efficient Programme Committee, where every member takes an active role in the decision-making process, and where students contribute actively to quality assurance processes. The ultimate goal is to foster a quality culture in the study programme. …
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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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Curricular Strands: Monitoring the Coherence Between Course Units
Are you looking to integrate or to renew existing curricular strands into the curriculum? This Education Tip contains a number of tips to get started.
What are Curricular Strands?Curricular strands make the study programme structure and the interconnection between course units more visible and explicit. Every strand …
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How to Write Tailor-Made Letters of Recommendation
Letters of recommendation or reference letters is one of many selection tools used in (international) competitive contexts such as grant applications, admission or research applications, work placements, recruitment, etc. They can make the ultimate difference for Ghent Uni candidates participating in selection procedures. These candidates all deserve a specific tailor-made …
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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 …
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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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Engaging, Well-organised and Active Teaching in Lectures
Delivering an engaging, well-structured and active lecture is quite a challenge. Fortunately, there are a lot of strategies, tips and tricks for you to apply. You can find out about them in this Education Tip.
A Smooth Start Welcome the StudentsWelcome the students into your course …
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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 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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Students’ Diversity Competencies: How to Put Them into (Teaching) Practice?
Strengthening your students' diversity competencies means preparing them to function in a diverse society and professional context. On the one hand, you can offer your students content-related knowledge about diversity as a social reality in relation to their discipline; on the other hand, learning to co-operate in a diverse setting …
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A Work Placement in the French-speaking part of Belgium or Abroad: Good to Know
Through a work placement in the French-speaking part of Belgium or abroad, students can acquire specific international/intercultural competencies. Every student at Ghent University should have acquired these competencies upon graduation. Strengthening professional skills in an intercultural/international context has a positive impact on the student’s personal and professional development. Moreover, …
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Study Programme Competencies (Programme-specific Learning Outcomes - OLR)
The following Education Tip provides inspiration for the chapter 'Study Programme Competencies (Programme-specific Learning Outcomes - OLRs)' in the Education Monitor. Separate suggestions are given for the PLAN and the DO sections, if applicable. Plan What are study programme competencies or study programme-specific learning outcomes?
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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 …
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Using Humour in Class? No Laughing Matter!
The opinions on the use of humour in class are divided. Although lecturers may use humour to stimulate students' motivation and learning process, it does not automatically generate a positive effect. For a positive impact, it is important to always apply humour thoughtfully. Make sure to think about the role …
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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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