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Work Placement: How to Align Expectations with the Students and How to Decide on the Supervision?
How to Align Work Placement Expectations?
One of the key factors for a successful work placement is communicating in advance on what the expectations are. It is natural for all the parties involved to start a work placement from their own initial situation. That’s why it is important not to …
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Language policy UGent: enhancing academic language skills
UGent wants to develop the academic language skills of its students and lecturers. Language skills are a necessary, but not the only, condition for study success. On 12 October 2017, the Education Council adopted a Language Policy paper (in Dutch).
What is the Language Policy paper?In a number of …
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Demonstration: Visualisation in Class
Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. Demonstrating specific learning content often makes that content more clear.
What is a Demonstration?As a lecturer you can demonstrate a situation, a device, a test or other technique. It is an excellent opportunity to activate your students, e.g. by having them …
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How to Set Up a Feedback Interview
In a feedback interview, you provide feedback to your student(s) about their achievements or behaviour. But how do you go about that in a manner that is at once high-quality and effective? This Education Tip focuses on
the skills you need to have a good feedback interview, specific guidelines for … Read more -
How to Avoid Stereotypes, Prejudices, Bias and Microaggressions in Your Teaching Practice
The following Education Tip explains how stereotypes and prejudices are formed and their connection to a lecturer’s expectations of students. It also reflects on how these expectations may colour your interactions with students, and how to avoid bias and microaggressions.
Stereotypes and Prejudices: Origins“The problem with stereotypes is not …
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Vision on Education Support
Ghent University’s strong tradition of professional development initiatives for teaching staff (members of the professorial staff as well as academic assistants) dates back to 1998. Since that time, the initiatives for individual lecturers have evolved greatly and they have been developed further. They have known quite some success as well: …
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Assessment: What to Do in the Event of Cheating, Plagiarism and Other Irregularities?
Sooner or later, a lecturer will be confronted with an irregularity during an assessment. This Education Tip tells you what to do when you establish cheating or plagiarism (the Education Tip ‘Exams: How to Avoid Errors and Cheating?' focuses on how to prevent cheating).
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How to Put Social Impact into (Your Teaching) Practice?
Why is Social Impact Relevant to Your Course Unit(s)?
Your course unit is part and parcel of a study programme, and as such it prepares graduates for taking up an active role in society. Lecturers and study programmes are crucial in shaping that role. Whether the focus is solely on …
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Digital Annotation: Tips and Tricks
Digital annotation adds dynamism to your online or hybrid lessons (in a classroom). Digital annotation is a tool to accentuate, add, or structure something. It allows you e.g. to emphasize a concept, underline a core element, add an example, map a process, or make a train of thought explicit. In …
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Sharing Lecture Recordings and Learning Materials: Dos and Don’ts
What are the do’s and don’ts of sharing lecture recordings and learning materials? This question has recently been prominent on lecturers’ and students’ (student unions’) minds. The answer to this question is not clear-cut. First and foremost, there is the legal framework provided by the Education and Examination Code. Then, …
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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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Worried about a Student? Tips for Ghent University Staff
You have reason to believe that a student in your immediate surroundings is struggling and it has you worried. You want to help, but you do not really know how to proceed. Find out here how to recognize specific signs and how to respond.
Flowchart Worrying SignsWhat are possible signs …
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Give Your Students a Boost: Awareness of Student Well-Being in Class
Why Increase Student Well-Being in Class?
Students who feel good about themselves, can achieve a stronger learning process and are less likely to drop out. As a lecturer, you can increase the well-being of your students during class with small interventions and promote mutual contact between students. It is important …
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Some Inspirational Blueprints for a Blended Redesign of Your Course Unit
What is a Blueprint?
A blueprint is a schematic visualization of your course unit. It contains the following elements:
clusters within your course unit; intermediate goals of those clusters; teaching methods; assessment methods; feedback methods.A blueprint generates a clear overview of your course unit’s structure, for your own use …
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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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What to Do in Case of Lost Exam Copies or Papers?
It is every lecturer’s nightmare: losing a student’s exam copy or paper. Find out here how to prevent this from happening, and what to do if it happens anyway.
How to Avoid Lost Exam Copies or Papers?As a lecturer, you are responsible for finding out if a student submitted …
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How to Determine the Quality of a Work Placement?
The quality of an work placement is directly linked to the efficiency of the students' learning process. That is why Ghent University puts great store by safeguarding the quality of its work placements. Found out how in the following Education Tip.
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PowerPoint in Lectures: Less is More
Powerpoint presentations are an obvious teaching tool for many lecturers. However, putting a good PowerPoint presentation together is not as simple as it seems. Take advantage of these tips!
What is the general rule of thumb with PowerPoint presentations?The Education and Examinations codes (art. 49) states that each lecturer …
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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:
informs. Course sheets inform future students of … Read more -
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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