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How to Involve Students during Online Teaching Activities?
Involving students and keeping them interested, is a crucial element of every teaching activity. Apart from the physical distance, online teaching activities may raise a number of additional obstacles for students, making it difficult for them to engage. This Education Tip shows you what you can do to influence that …
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Rubrics: a Tool to Assess Papers or Skills
If you are looking to assess papers or skills, or to involve several assessors in marking, the use of rubrics will increase the validity of the assessment. You use the rubric to determine what is a good achievement, so that everyone involved will use the same standard for marking. …
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Surveillance of Online Written Assessments with MS Teams
In this Education Tip you will learn more about how to supervise online exams with MS Teams. Be sure to refer students to the student portal with all the guidelines around online assessment in their (home) environment or on campus.
In BriefStudents participate in assessment from home on their …
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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 than making unilateral …
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Education and Quality Assurance Updates
Updates January 2024
Feedback after the Exam Period
Every student has the right to receive content-related feedback, also during the resit exam period. Please read up on the practicalities of organising feedback, the power of feedback, and which tools to use in our Education Tip on Feedback.
Launching the …
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How to Assess Group Work?
Think thoroughly about how to evaluate group work as the evaluation method strongly determines how the group functions. Determine in advance what you are evalutating. Determine who evaluates and make sure that the evaluation is valid, reliable and transparent.
What do you evaluate in group work?Determine, as concretely as …
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The Basics of Designing a Course Unit
What are points to consider for Ghent University lecturers when designing and/or fine-tuning your course unit? What are elements to ensure a well-structured course unit, and to a powerful learning environment for students? This Education Tip outlines the basics of any type of high-quality education.
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How to Lecture Large Groups?
Are you, just like an increasing number of other lecturers, faced with the challenge of giving formal lectures to a large group of students? This educational tip shares tips and tricks about preparing and giving formal lecturers and teaches you how to create interaction with a larger group. This way, …
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How to Set Up Seminars
What is a seminar? How does it differ from a practical or lecture? What can you use it for and how do you do that? What are benefits and points of interest? All explanations about seminars are offered in this education tip.
What is a seminar?A seminar is a …
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Work Placements Abroad: Tackling Practicalities and Adminstration
The preparation time needed to tackle the administration and practicalities for a work placement abroad depends on the destination. Always be sure to check the FPS Foreign Affairs’ travel advice first. If the FPS has issued a negative travel advice, students cannot go abroad for a work placement at that …
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Deferred Examination: When is a Student Entitled to this?
When is a student’s absence from exams legitimate? Under which circumstances is a student entitled to a deferred examination? And when is this not the case? You can read about in this education tip.
What are Legitimate Reasons of Absence from Exams?If a student is absent on the day …
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Putting Diversity Consciousness into (Teaching) Practice
The diversity in your student group requires a diversity-conscious approach that is aimed at offering students optimal opportunities to develop themselves. This education tip focuses on all aspects of such an approach that you as a teacher can deploy and refers to a number of general principles of Ghent University’s …
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Sustainability: how can you implement this into your teaching practice?
Many of the current societal challenges such as climate change and growing social inequality are wicked issues. This means that there is not only a scientific discussion about these issues (What factual knowledge is there about that theme? What exactly is the problem?), but also a social discussion. In the …
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Integrating Sustainability in Your Study Programme
Many of the contemporary social challenges such as climate change and the growing social inequality are ‘wicked issues’. This means that there is not only scientific debate about facts, knowledge and the nature of the problem, but also debate in society. In the latter case, the questions that play are: …
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Institutional Alumni Surveys at Ghent University
Organizing alumni surveys at Ghent University is not a new feature: central alumni surveys have taken place in the past, but were discontinued due to low participation rates (among other things). In the meantime, faculties and study programmes set up their own surveys. A new round of central alumni …
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How to Write Tailor-Made Letters of Recommendation
Letters of recommendation or reference letters is one of many selection tools used in (international) competitive contexts such as grant applications, admission or research applications, work placements, recruitment, etc. They can make the ultimate difference for Ghent Uni candidates participating in selection procedures. These candidates all deserve a specific tailor-made …
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Lectures: Activate Your Students
Keeping students engaged through fascinating, structured and varied lectures is one thing, but you can get even more out of your lecture when you also manage to activate your students.
Create a safe learning environmentFirst, pay attention to the context of your lecture: if you expect your students to …
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Master’s Dissertation: What Are the Conditions?
By decree, university students have to complete their studies with a Master's dissertation. It shows that a student can work analytically and synthetically, solve problems autonomously or create artistically. Ghent University imposes on all its study programmes a number of obligations as determined by the Education and Examination Code (Dutch: …
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Peer Assessment: Students Assessing Each Other
The method of peer assessment allows your students to also score each other's product in addition to providing content feedback (= peer feedback).
What is Peer Assessment?Using peer assessment or peer evaluation, students evaluate each other's input or performance by means of criteria that are either formulated by …
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Demonstration: Visualisation in Class
Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. Demonstrating specific learning content often makes that content more clear.
What is a Demonstration?As a lecturer you can demonstrate a situation, a device, a test or other technique. It is an excellent opportunity to activate your students, e.g. by having them …
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