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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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Voluntary work placements: operational framework
On June 29, 2020, the Education Council of Ghent University approved the policy text ‘Ghent University vision on work placement’. This note includes the following about voluntary work placements:
Allowing voluntary work placements and activities in Belgium and abroad is a faculty decision. Voluntary work placements are work … Read more -
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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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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On-campus and Online Oral Assessments
Find out here how to draw up and organise an oral exam, what points to consider when administering and assessing the exam, and what to keep in mind in the case of an online exam.
What is Oral Assessment?During oral assessments, individual students or groups of students …
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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 -
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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Introductory Activities: a Checklist for the Organisation of a Warm Welcome
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Building Self-Regulation Skills
What Are Self-Regulation Skills?
Students actively use self-regulation skills throughout a cyclical learning process (before, during, and after learning) to regulate their behaviour, thoughts and feelings in order to achieve their learning goals.
Self-regulation is a set of strategies that help students take control of their learning process, …
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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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Open-book Exams: Assessing Complex Competencies
In this education tip you will get introduced to different types of open-book exams, when you can use an open-book exam, the practical guidelines you should take into account during the open-book exam and how to assess it afterwards.
Open-book Exams: What?An open-book exam is an assessment …
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Transgressive Behaviour at the Work Placement
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS BY WORK PLACEMENT SUPERVISORS IN CASE OF REPORTS OF TRANSGRESSIVE BEHAVIOUR
1. ContextThe Reporting Centre for Transgressive Behaviour regularly receives questions about transgressive behaviour during work placements. This FAQ with practical tips is meant to help our work placement supervisors at the faculties handle …
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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: How to Align Expectations with the Students and How to Decide on the Supervision?
How to Align Work Placement Expectations?
One of the key factors for a successful work placement is communicating in advance on what the expectations are. It is natural for all the parties involved to start a work placement from their own initial situation. That’s why it is important not …
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Start-of-Term Communication about Your Course Unit
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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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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How to Assess Participation?
We all want our students to be involved and to participate actively in class. But how to assess that?
What is Participation?Participation includes students' commitment to e.g. talks, discussions, practicals, exercises... Please note, however, that the assessment of participation can only to a limited extent count towards …
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What does Ghent University consider as “work placement”?
Ghent University has 11 faculties, with over 400 study programmes, and is home to a multitude of different (inter)national work placements. This educational tip defines the term work placement and is based on the Ghent University vision on work placement, as approved by the Educational Council.
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How to Provide Feedback on Work Placement (Activities)?
The goal of feedback is to stimulate students to take control over their learning process, and to critically reflect upon their performance. Providing feedback on a work placement (activity) takes the form of a dialogue between the student and the work placement supervisor and/or work placement mentor. Feedback can be …
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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, …
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