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Student Talent Development in the Faculty
The following Education Tip gives inspiration to write the chapter on 'Student Talent Development' of the Faculty Monitor. If applicable, separate suggestions are given for the PLAN and the DO. Plan
The faculty pursues a policy that is focused on maximising opportunities for all students. Indicate below the initiatives organised …
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Work placement Glossary
Using the right terminology for a work placement is important. Below you will find the correct terms used at UGent, in Dutch and English.
Dutch 1. Soorten stage Stage Geheel aan geïndividualiseerde begeleidingssituaties en zelfstandige leersituaties tijdens een periode van ervaringsleren in de beroepspraktijk waarbij de student wordt ingeschakeld in … Read more -
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 in …
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Authentic Assessment of Communication Skills: Video Annotation as a Solution
This education tip is a report of a 2017 competitive educational innovation project
What?Authentic testing focuses on assessing students’ skills and insights in a situation that is (largely) in line with future professional practice. Authentic assessment expects students to demonstrate competences in a way in which professionals apply these …
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What is the financial support for a work placement abroad?
A work placement abroad usually means extra costs for the student, for transportation, accommodation, administration or maintenance, etc. Depending on the country and the place of residence, costs may vary. There are a number of institutions that offer financial support by granting scholarships that can cover the extra costs, in …
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How to Achieve High-Quality Assessments?
As lecturer, when assessing, you may initially think of ways to determine how well students master the learning material and pre-determined competencies. But assessing involves more than that. This education tip explains the difference between assessment of learning and assessment for learning and how to use both approaches …
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Learning Analytics: What to Learn from Them as a Lecturer?
What are Learning Analytics?
The term Learning analytics refers to “the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of data about learners and their contexts (1), for purposes of understanding and optimizing learning (2) and the environments in which it occurs”.
“data about learners and their contexts” (1) the emergence of digital … Read more -
Rubrics: a Tool to Assess Papers or Skills
If you are looking to assess papers or skills, or to involve several assessors in marking, the use of rubrics will increase the validity of the assessment. You use the rubric to determine what is a good achievement, so that everyone involved will use the same standard for marking. …
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How to Stimulate Students' Language Development?
As a lecturer, you can boost your students' academic language acquisition. Such a language-developing didactic approach is based on three pillars: creating a context, interacting with your students and offering language support. This educational tip explains the three pillars, illustrated with practical examples.
How do you create a context?The …
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Peer Assessment: Students Assessing Each Other
The method of peer assessment allows your students to also score each other's product in addition to providing content feedback (= peer feedback).
What is Peer Assessment?Using peer assessment or peer evaluation, students evaluate each other's input or performance by means of criteria that are either formulated by …
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Master’s Dissertation: the Conditions
By decree, university students have to complete their studies with a Master's dissertation. It shows that a student can work analytically and synthetically, solve problems autonomously or make artistic creations. Ghent University imposes on all its study programmes a number of provisions as determined by the Education and Examination Code …
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MOOC Projects at Ghent University
In 2018, Ghent University provided funding for a number of MOOC projects. This Education Tip gives an overview of those projects and their collaborators.
Are you interested in finding out what a MOOC can do for your teaching practice? Please consult this Education Tip on MOOCs.
Take a look …
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Heterogeneous student groups: how do you deal with them?
Do you notice different levels of ability amongst students when you lecture or guide them? This education tip gives you several practical suggestions on how to respond to that heterogeneity.
What are 'heterogeneous student groups'?Different student characteristics can be the cause of a heterogeneous group. These may be …
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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 stereotypes is not …
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How to Organize Group Work?
What is Group Work?
In group work, students work together as a team. Working together is essential. In one way, students acquire knowledge by working together on something; in another way, learning to better work together can be a goal in itself in group work.
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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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The Master’s Dissertation: How to Assess it?
In a Master's dissertation, students demonstrate their "general critical-reflective attitude and/or their research attitude", through an assignment (source: Codex Higher Education - in Dutch). Therefore, these competencies are always at the core of the assessment.
How to Assess a Master's Dissertation?The Education and Examination Code (Dutch: OER) do …
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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. Align your …
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What Is Our No-Show Policy?
Participation is free of charge for UGent staff. If you register for a training course as a UGent staff member, you agree with the cancellation policy below:
CancellationThe training sessions are free of charge and open to Ghent University staff. If you cannot attend the training session, we ask …
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Study Coaches
What is a Study Coach?
Study coaches are Master’s students (of Teaching) of the study programme/faculty who commit themselves on a voluntary basis to be an accessible point of contact for a group of students during (the first year of) their study programme.
What Expect From a Study Coach?A …
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