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Teaching in a Hybrid Setting
Teaching in a Hybrid Setting: What?
Teaching in a hybrid setting means that part of the students physically attends the lecture on campus, and that another part simultaneously attends the lecture online. Students attending the lecture online can either choose to attend individually (from home or from their student flat) …
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Stakeholder Participation
At Ghent University, we expect every study programme to reflect on, and pursue an education policy that is an explicit implementation of our six strategic education objectives. One of these objectives is Stakeholder Participation.
We expect our programmes to set up processes and procedures to guarantee structural and …
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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?
At Ghent University the terms …
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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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Setting up Supervision and Intervision Conversations on the Work Placement
Supervision or intervision conversations transform work placement experiences into learning experiences in a process-oriented way. During such conversations, students become aware of their feelings, emotions, thoughts, attitudes, norms and values. This way, they gain a better understanding of their own actions, allowing for further self-development.
The difference between supervision …
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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 -
What role do work placements have in the Ghent University vision on education and the educational monitor?
Qualitative work placements perfectly connect to the six strategic educational goals, which are the translation of the Ghent University vision on qualitative education. These educational goals, in turn, are further developed in the operational goals of the programme monitors. The tip is based on the Ghent University vision on work …
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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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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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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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Grade Conversion at Ghent University
What?
The way grades are awarded abroad (and at universities in the French Community) may differ from grading practices at Ghent University. A transparent conversion into Ghent University examination marks is therefore necessary. Ghent University is an international forerunner in terms of ECTS and aims to apply ECTS methodology to …
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Coherent Curriculum: Translating the Programme-Specific Competencies (Learning Outcomes)
What?
A curriculum comprises a coherent whole of course units based on challenging and complex learning outcomes. Coherence is achieved through co-ordination: the Programme Committee ensures that course units within a particular standard study track are well-aligned and that course units in consecutive study tracks are programmed logically. This so-called …
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Integrating Sustainability in Your Study Programme
Many of the contemporary social challenges such as climate change and the growing social inequality are ‘wicked issues’. This means that there is not only scientific debate about facts, knowledge and the nature of the problem, but also debate in society. In the latter case, the questions that play are: …
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How to Moderate Discussions on an Online Forum
What?
An online discussion is a didactic method by means of which students learn to collect information, take a point of view, argue, give feedback to fellow students, and strengthen their communication skills. Discussion also increases student engagement in online education. You can organize discussions either asynchronously (forum), or synchronously …
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How to Incorporate a Policy on Diversity into Your Study Programme
Diversity in Your Study Programme: Relevance?
Today’s society is very diverse. Inevitably, this means that our university and our study programmes face a number of challenges. Society needs highly educated knowledge workers who know how to deal with the present diversity. It is important, therefore, that students learn to deal …
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What to Communicate about Your Course Unit on Ufora at the Start of Term?
In an online learning environment, students need guidance on the practical organization of your course unit, the teaching materials, the assessment activities and on how they can reach you. This Education Tip tells you what to communicate at the start of term. If you also want to know how best …
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Embedding the External Perspective in Study Programmes
By the new Quality Code for Higher Education (2019), Ghent University greatly values external parties' input on its study programmes' education policy and quality assurance. Each study programme is expected to take several actions, that allows them to embed a wide-ranging external perspective in a structured manner.
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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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