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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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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. The study programme actively communicates about all …
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Higher Cut-off Point or Standard Setting
Are you planning an exam that (partly or wholly) consists of multiple-choice questions (MCQ)? Are you looking for corrective measures to compensate for questions students answered correctly by guessing? At Ghent University, this is possible by applying a higher cut-off point or standard setting.
Guidelines for MCQ AssessmentSince the …
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Education Support Services Contacts
On 10 February 2021, the Education Council ratified Ghent University's Education Support Services 2.0, consisting of general support services for study programmes and lecturers, and tailor-made support services for faculties and study programmes developed by the Education Support Team.
Institutional Education Support ServicesThe Education Support Team brings together Quality …
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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 concretely as …
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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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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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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 unit and introduce …
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What Is Constructive Alignment and Why Is It So Important?
What is Constructive Alignment?
Constructive alignment means bringing into alignment the predetermined competencies, the learning and teaching activities, and the assessment types. It is one of the most influential principles in higher education.
When designing a programme or course unit, you should consider the following three questions:
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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 opportunity to …
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Overview Faculties' Education Innovation Projects: from 1997 till Present
Looking for interesting education innovation projects? The overview below shows you a list of pdf-files organized per year with either summaries of the faculty innovation projects, project reports (up until 2013) or project proposals (from 2014 onwards). Allow yourself to be inspired!
(Please note that the files are in …
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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 and …
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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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Ghent University Goes Blended
What is Blend@UGent? Definition
Blend@UGent is a well-considered and well-aligned mix of online and on-campus education. This means students actively work with learning contents, both individually and in interaction with each other and lecturers.
Ghent University redesigns its learning environment into a blend of active, evidence-based teaching, learning opportunities and …
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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 is linked …
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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 linguistic …
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Moderating Class Discussions
The discussion is a suitable teaching method for activating your students and for stimulating their oral and written language production, either during a class discussion or an online discussion. This Education Tip focuses on class discussions – how to initiate them, how to keep them going and moderate them, and …
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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 University study programmes introduce their students and teaching staff to international perspectives. Programme Committees …
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Assessment Matrix: the Perfect Tool for Valid Assessments
If you want to take a closer look at your assessment (methods), we can offer you an excellent tool to help: the assessment matrix. The education tip below provides you with more information.
What is an Assessment Matrix?An assessment matrix is a two-dimensional summary table that displays the answers …
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