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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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Exam marks: how do you access the distribution of marks in Oasis?
As lecturer-in-charge, you can request the distribution of marks for your course unit via Oasis. Programmes can also request the distribution of marks for all course units of the programme. On this basis, the assessment practice can be discussed in the study programme committee, assessment committee, examination committee or academic …
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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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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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Diversity Policy: How Can Students Learn About and In Diversity in Your Programme?
Study programmes that want to focus on diversity give students the opportunity to acquire or reinforce specific diversity competencies. On the one hand, students must learn about diversity as a social reality in relation to their field. On the other hand, learning to collaborate and deal with difference is an …
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The 2026-2027 Education and Examination Code: What's New?
At its meeting on 13 May 2026, the Board of Governors approved the Education and Examination Code for the 2026-2027 academic year.
Discover the most notable changes and key additions here.
Doctorate (PhD)To avoid possible inconsistencies, we have removed various doctorate-specific definitions from the Education and …
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Portfolio: a Versatile Teaching and Assessment Method
Are you looking for a way in which students can keep track of their learning progress? Or are you looking for an assessment method that allows room for student creativity? This and many other applications are possible with the portfolio.
What is a Portfolio?A portfolio is a …
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Jigsaw: An Example of Collaborative Learning in Class
Do you want your students to work together in class, while they all take responsibility for (part of) the work? Then try the jigsaw teaching method!
What is Jigsaw?Jigsaw is a form of collaborative learning, and goes back to the principle of a jigsaw puzzle. The …
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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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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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What are the Specific Points to Consider for Work Placements in the Global South?
For a work placement in the Global South, the same points of attention are of course relevant as for other work placements abroad. However, there are a number of specific points of attention as well, which can be found in this educational tip.
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Who assesses the work placement?
Different parties provide valuable information
In the assessment of work placements, different parties are often involved: Ghent University, the workplace, the trainee and possibly fellow students (in the case of co-work placements). All of these parties can provide information, each from their own perspective, which can be very …
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Peer Teaching
Are you looking to involve students actively in their learning process? Do you want students to benefit from each other’s knowledge and experiences? Consider implementing peer teaching as a teaching and learning activity. This Education Tip explains the concept of peer teaching, its different types, advantages, and points to consider.
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Assessing: Taking into Account Students’ Previous Exam Results?
Can you take your students' previous exam results into account? The answer to that question is an unequivocal 'no'. This Education Tip explains why.
What is the Objective of Assessing?When you assess students, you consider to what extent they attain the pre-determined course competencies of your course …
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Flipped Classroom: a Traditional Lecture Revisited
If you are looking for ways to use your lecture period more effectively, consider allowing the students to acquire the learning content autonomously in advance and use your lecture period for in-depth learning activities according to the flipped classroom model.
What is a Flipped Classroom?In a …
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How to Hone Students’ Language and Intercultural skills for a Work Placement Abroad?
Preparation is key. This Education Tip focuses on the students’ preparation for a work placement abroad in terms of their language and intercultural skills.
How to Hone Students' Language Skills in Preparation of a Work Placement Abroad? In the case of a work context in which a … Read more -
Vision on Education Support
Ghent University’s strong tradition of professional development initiatives for teaching staff (members of the professorial staff as well as academic assistants) dates back to 1998. Since that time, the initiatives for individual lecturers have evolved greatly and they have been developed further. They have known quite some success as well: …
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Peer Support: the Basics (What and Why)
Ghent University’s Definition of Peer Support
At Ghent University, we define “peer support” as any form of counselling and support students offer each other. In case of informal peer support, students help each other spontaneously and voluntarily, for example by exchanging notes or by studying together. In case of …
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Project-based Education: a Cross-curricular Solution to a Complex Problem
Are you looking for a teaching method that allows students to tackle complex, interdisciplinary or cross-curricular issues? Do you want to enhance the integration of content and skills on the long term? Project-based education is a strong teaching method to reach these goals!
Project-based Education: What?A project …
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Special Status and (Exam) Accommodations: Regulations, Procedures and House Rules
An overview of the various special statuses and corresponding information for students can be found on the student portal.
The procedures for applying for and granting special status and (examination) accommodations are run entirely through OASIS.
Allocating and Linking Exam Accommodations If the Director of Education … Read more