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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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How to Communicate with the Host Organisation?
Unsurprisingly, open and transparent communication is a critical succes factor in the context of work placement. As a work placement coordinator, you should communicate your expectations to the host organisation beforehand. This Education Tip offers an overview of useful communication strategies.
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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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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.
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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 …
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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 …
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Fraud Prevention before, during and after a Paper or Digital Exam
A well-organised exam is a significant step towards avoiding errors and fraud. This Education Tip offers some helpful guidelines to make everything run as smoothly as possible. Also, make sure whether your faculty has drawn up specific additional guidelines, as the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration has. Have you …
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Peer Feedback: Learn More From a Peer
Peer feedback is feedback given by peers (i.e. one’s equals). Based on clear assessment criteria, peer feedback teaches students to look critically at the quality of their own work and the behaviour they have displayed, as well as that of others. It is a process that lays bare one’s strengths …
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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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Fire Alarm During an Exam: What to Do?
Safety always comes first, even during an exam. If the fire alarm goes off, everyone has to leave the building. The education tip below explains the difference between an evacuation alarm and a warning alarm. It also explains how to prepare for an evacuation.
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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 …
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The Answer Key: a Tool to Objectively Mark Open-Ended Questions
As lecturer, you need mark as objectively as possible. An answer key can help you with that. This Education Tip explains why and how.
What is an Answer Key?An answer key or model answer includes a list of what should be included in an answer and the …
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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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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.
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Self-Assessment
What is Self-Assessment?
Self-assessment is the process in which students critically analyse and evaluate their actions and/or performance quality using a set of predetermined criteria. It enables them to identify and reflect on their strengths and weaknesses.
Self-assessment teaches students how to improve their achievements. It is a …
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Education and Study Programme Support Team 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 and Study Programme Support Team.
Education and Study Programme Support Team…
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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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The Captain System
What is the captain system?
The captain system is a kind of group work in which students work together on a weekly basis in groups of three to six people. In each class session, one group member is appointed as captain.
The captain may be assigned various roles:
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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 …
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Dyslexia: How Can You Help?
Students with dyslexia show pronounced problems with their reading pace, which means that it takes them much longer to review, process and study written learning materials. Texts written by students with dyslexia lack structure and are often less enjoyable to read. Before you assess the texts, it is useful to …
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