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Learning conversation: a teaching method that gets more out of the students
Would you like to get more out of the students during the lesson? Use the learning conversation!
What is a learning conversation?A learning conversation is a conversation where you as a lecturer lead the student(s) to particular insights or solutions to a problem. As a lecturer, you …
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How to Put Diversity into (Your Teaching) Practice
Diversity in Your Course Units: Relevance?
Today's super diverse society calls for highly skilled knowledge workers, who know how to deal with this reality. It is, therefore, the joint responsibility of study programmes and their lecturers to educate students into professionals who are able to deal with diversity issues …
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Case-Based Education: Using Real-Life Contexts
If you are looking for ways to teach students to put theory into practice, case-based education is a good option. Students set to work with real-life situations and contexts in a case study.
What are Case Studies?It is a teaching method in which students are first invited …
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Coaching (Individual) Students with Their Written and Oral Assignments
A lecturer can have a positive impact on the quality of written and oral assignments by coaching students during their writing process. Good coaching begins with clear instructions. In addition, high-quality feedback and proper preparation of the assessment are essential.
Give Clear and Specific Assignment InstructionsClear and …
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Written and Oral Assignments: How to Give Language Feedback and Assess Language Skills?
If you give your students a written or oral assignment, you will also need to provide feedback and assess their language use. This Education Tip tells you how to do that.
How to Give Language Feedback?Start with determining which competencies the student should acquire with the assignment. …
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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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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 …
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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 …
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Education and Quality Assurance Updates
May 2026 Updates Exam period ahead: be prepared! Make High-Quality Assessments
Consult our tips on How to Achieve High-Quality Assessment: is my exam valid, reliable and organised transparently? Are you looking for practical tips on organising an exam? Think, for instance, of briefing your invigilators sufficiently …
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Constribute: Stakeholder Participation
The study programme fosters an active dialogie with internal stakeholders, especially the students, and involves them in all aspects of education policy and quality assurance. The study programme involves external stakeholders (e.g. the professional field, alumni, policymakers, (inter)national experts, etc...) by collecting feedback on … Read more -
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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Staff Talent Development
The following education tip provides inspiration to write Chapter 'Staff Talent Development ' of the Faculty Monitor. If applicable, separate suggestions are given for the PLAN and the DO. Plan
The faculty develops an HR policy that is in line with the university-wide frameworks (the professorial staff career …
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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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Problem-based education: learning independently in a group
Do you want students to learn to apply knowledge in a professional assignment? Are you looking for a teaching method where students acquire new knowledge in a self-driven and motivated way? Then problem-based education may be a suitable approach for your course unit.
What is problem-based education?Problem-based …
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Dare to Think and Multiperspectivism
The following education tip provides inspiration to write Chapter 'Dare to Think and Multiperspectivism' of the Faculty Monitor. If applicable, separate suggestions are given for the PLAN and the DO. Plan
Ghent University’s education strategy can be captured in two catchphrases: “Dare to think” and “Multiperspectivism”. Both concepts …
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Introductory Activities: a Checklist for the Organisation of a Warm Welcome
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Blended Mobility
Blended Mobility: What?
During blended mobility initiatives, students undertake a course unit at a foreign partner institution that includes both an online component and a short-term on-site component. These components are flexible in their sequence and duration. Students earn credits through a Transcript of Records, which their home institution …
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Work Placement: Points to Consider for Study Programmes
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Challenge-Based Education: What, Why and How?
What is it?
Challenge-based education (CBE) is a teaching and learning strategy in which students identify a complex, social challenge, for which they develop and implement an innovative and interdisciplinary solution. To reach this solution, students work together with peers, teachers, and external experts and delve into different …
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How to Go About Correct and Efficient Marking?
Lecturers want to (and should) assess every student fairly. At Ghent University, we use our assessment policy and quality assurance measures to raise awareness among lecturers vis-à-vis possible assessment biases – and in so doing, we reduce the effects of such unintended bias – and to focus on techniques for …
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