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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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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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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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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”.
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Panopto: Ghent University’s New Video Platform
From the 2023-2024 academic year onwards, Panopto becomes Ghent University’s central video platform. It will serve to record, play, edit, save and share lecture recordings, knowledge clips, instruction videos and so on.
You can find this page on the intranet: https://ugentbe.sharepoint.com/sites/intranet/SitePages/Themas.aspx?termId=57c6f561-35b5-4b8d-a3fe-b95602339bdf
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Master’s Dissertation during Study Abroad: Supervision and Assessment
This Education Tip outlines the key points to consider when supervising a Master's dissertation 'with an international component'.
What is a Master's Dissertation 'with an International Component'?An increasing number of students choose to combine their Master's dissertation with studying and staying abroad. In addition to the content-related …
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Learning Network for Programme Committee Chairs
For whom?
This training targets Programme Committee chairs.
What?Taking on the position of Programme Committee (PC) chair means taking on leadership. Implementing this “leadership”, however, it is not always straightforward. After all, the mandate is only temporary, which necessarily renders your leadership temporary as well. Rather …
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A Work Placement in the French-speaking part of Belgium or Abroad: Good to Know
Through a work placement in the French-speaking part of Belgium or abroad, students can acquire specific international/intercultural competencies. Every student at Ghent University should have acquired these competencies upon graduation. Strengthening professional skills in an intercultural/international context has a positive impact on the student’s personal and professional development. Moreover, …
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DUGA: a Quiz App for and by Ghent University Staff
DUGA (Dare to Game) is an app to organise online quizzes.The leaderboard provides a competition element before, during or after your lecture.
You can find this page now on intranet: https://ugentbe.sharepoint.com/sites/intranet-ict/SitePages/en/DUGA.aspx
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How to Determine the Quality of a Work Placement?
The quality of an work placement is directly linked to the efficiency of the students' learning process. That is why Ghent University puts great store by safeguarding the quality of its work placements. Found out how in the following Education Tip.
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Assessment Matrix: the Perfect Tool for Valid Assessments
If you want to take a closer look at your assessment (methods), we can offer you an excellent tool to help: the assessment matrix. The education tip below provides you with more information.
What is an Assessment Matrix?An assessment matrix is a two-dimensional summary table that displays …
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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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Worried about a Student? Tips for Ghent University Staff
You have reason to believe that a student in your immediate surroundings is struggling and it has you worried. You want to help, but you do not really know how to proceed. Find out here how to recognize specific signs and how to respond.
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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.
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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 … Read more -
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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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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What to Do in Case of Lost Exam Copies or Papers?
Every lecturer’s nightmare is losing a student’s exam copy or paper. Find out how to prevent this, and what to do if it happens anyway.
How to Avoid Losing Exam Copies or Papers?As a lecturer, you are responsible for determining if a student submitted an exam copy …
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Virtual Reality? For Real! A Education Innovation Project
The Faculty of Sciences' 2017 education innovation project Virtual Reality (VR) offers a unique way of turning abstract concepts and phenomena into something concrete by means of direct sensory experiences. Read about he project's findings below.
What is Captain Einstein?The Faculty of Sciences experimented with its own …
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Virtual Exchange
Virtual Exchange: What?
Virtual Exchange (VE) and Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) are interchangeable. They denote a teaching method in which lecturers and students from different countries come together to learn, discuss and collaborate as part of their course unit. The lecturers team up to design collaborative online teaching …
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