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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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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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The Buddy System
What is the Buddy System?
A buddy is a senior student who coaches a (new or junior) student. Buddies are not per se mentors who guide other students in terms of (course) content. Rather, they function as a liaison, an accessible and informal contact person for questions about student life …
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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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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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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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Feedback after the Exam Period
In accordance with Article 60 of the Education and Examination Code, every student has the right to receive content-related feedback (this must takes place within the feedback period). This feedback is an important element of the student’s learning process.
This Education Tip delves deeper into:
the regulations for scheduling feedback …
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Virtual Mobility
Virtual Mobility: What?
Virtual mobility entails students taking one or more online course units at a foreign partner institution without physical travel. An internationally recognisable term for this principle is online distance courses. The co-ordinating institution awards the credits (ECTS), which are then recognised in the student’s home curriculum.
There …
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How to Assess Exemption Requests?
Assessing exemption requests is not always a straightforward matter. This Education Tip gives an overview of the most important points to consider when assessing exemption requests based on previously acquired credit certificates and previously acquired qualifications.
Please note: when a student requests an exemption based on previously acquired competencies, these …
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On-Campus Written Exams: Open-Ended Questions
This Education Tip containts information on different types of open-ended questions, when to use them, how to design high-quality open-ended questions and how to mark them.
What are Open-Ended Questions?Open-ended questions are questions to which students have to produce their own answer. There are several types of open-ended questions, …
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Blended Mobility
Blended Mobility: What?
During blended mobility initiatives, students take a course unit at a foreign partner institution which comprises an online component and a short-term physical component. These components are flexible in sequence and length. Students earn credits through a Transcript of Records, which is recognised by their home institution. …
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Student Insurance During Work Placement
Ghent University Work Placement Students: Types of Insurance?
Ghent University has taken out the following insurances (in Dutch) for trainees:
industrial/workplace accidents, in order to ensure that students are also insured for occupational accidents at the location of the work placement, and when travelling to and from the work placement …
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Introductory Activities: a Checklist for the Organisation of a Warm Welcome
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Are You Allowed to Post YouTube Videos on Ufora?
If you want to use YouTube videos in your Ufora course, you should be aware of the relevant legislation. Read TechTransfer’s legal advice here and find out under which circumstances you can use those videos without any problems.
What Are the Conditions for Using YouTube Videos?
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How can you find a suitable work placement?
A good ‘match’ between an intern and an work placement provider is beneficial to both parties. This educational tip explains how both students and study programmes can find possible work placements and which platforms are helpful for finding a suitable work placement.
(Aligning the expectations between intern and work placement …
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Assesment Reflection
The assesment reflection (part of UGI, section evaluation and testing) is a tool which was developed to make figures/data available to lecturers, programme committees and examination committees in a convenient way in order to reflect on evaluations. The assessment reflection tool contributes to the quality assurance concerning the assesment vision …
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Motivational Teaching: Where to Begin?
Motivating students during lectures is challenging for everyone. For more information, please visit the website on motivational lecturing (in Dutch). The website is the result of an innovation project that came into existence in cooperation with the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, the Faculty of Medicine and Health …
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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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Course Feedback by Students
What Is Course Feedback?
After each term, (former) students are asked to provide feedback on the general organisation, and certain specific aspects of the teaching practice with which they have come into contact. The output generated by this so-called course feedback (Dutch: vakfeedback) is used by Ghent …
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Structural Contact with Minors during the Work Placement: Mandatory Check of the Criminal Record Certificate
The Flemish Government has decreed that as of 1 February 2023 any organisation offering activities which involve the education, psycho-medical-social assistance, youth counselling, child protection services, supervision and animation of minors must carry out a mandatory check of the criminal record certificate of certain new employees. This mandatory check …
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