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Digital Annotation: Tips and Tricks
Digital annotation adds dynamism to your online or hybrid lessons (in a classroom). Digital annotation is a tool to accentuate, add, or structure something. It allows you e.g. to emphasize a concept, underline a core element, add an example, map a process, or make a train of thought explicit. In …
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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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MOOCs: Massive Open Online Courses
Are you interested in using high-quality online learning materials developed by other universities? This Education Tip will tell you more about MOOCs and how they can be implemented in your course unit.
What is a MOOC?MOOC stands for Massive Open Online Course:
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Written Exams: Open-Ended Questions
This Education Tip containts information on different types of open-ended questions, when to use them, how to design high-quality open-ended questions and how to mark them.
What are Open-Ended Questions?Open-ended questions are questions to which students have to produce their own answer. There are several types of …
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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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Lecture Recordings at Ghent University: Policy Framework
Lecture recordings at Ghent University are implemented in a well-considered and feasible manner. This is based on research, the importance of on-campus presence, and our general Ghent education policy.
Evidence-basedRecent research into lecture recordings (Dommet et al., 2019; Bailly et al., 2022) tells us that:
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Work Placement Allowance: Can Trainees Receive a Compensation for their Work?
Is the work placement taking place in Belgium?
Belgian/Flemish law stipulates that trainees must not be paid a salary. However, the host organisation may decide to meet the trainee's expenses in the form of an allowance (either a lump sum or a reimbursement of proven expenses) for …
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How to Teach Research Skills?
The Importance of Research Skills in Teaching Practice
Ghent University's policy on education comprises six strategic education objectives. One of these is ‘Education based on Excellent Research’. At Ghent University, a study programme’s education practice is always grounded in cutting-edge research and the latest academic insights in the …
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ENLIGHT: European University
ENLIGHT is a consortium of 9 European partners: it unites the universities of the Basque Country (ES-PV), Bordeaux (FR), Bratislava (SK), Galway (IE), Göttingen (DE), Groningen (NL), Tartu (EE), Uppsala (SE) and Ghent (BE).
Under coordination of Ghent University ENLIGHT was selected in the framework of the second call …
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Lecturers: How to Be Approachable?
If students feel comfortable asking questions during class, it contributes to a safe learning environment. In such an environment, students are more motivated to actively participate in class. This is why the course feedback by students, among other things, gauges the approachability of our lecturers. But how do you go …
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Independent Work: Supporting Students to Process Learning Materials Properly
Do you expect your students to process teaching material individually and independently? Have you noticed that students do not always know how to get started? Then independent work is the solution.
What is Independent Work?Not all teaching material is covered in class. Students should acquire and …
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Web Lectures: a Practical Example from the Faculty of Sciences
Web lectures are recordings of e.g. a presentation, or extracts from a lecture, reading or workshop. If you want to find out how to make the most of web lectures, you can find some inspiration below. This education tip brings you a number of good practices from the Faculty of …
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Right of Inspection for Students
Regulations and Procedure
The following addition has been included in the Higher Education Codex with regard to the right of inspection, taking immediate effect (i.e. from the current 2019-2020 academic year onwards):“With regard to examinations, the principle of public access to documents means that students are entitled 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:
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How to Put Social Impact into (Your Teaching) Practice?
Why is Social Impact Relevant to Your Course Unit(s)?
Your course unit is part and parcel of a study programme, and as such it prepares graduates for taking up an active role in society. Lecturers and study programmes are crucial in shaping that role. Whether the focus is solely …
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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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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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Dare to Think and Multiperspectivism
The following education tip provides inspiration to write Chapter 'Dare to Think and Multiperspectivism' of the Faculty Monitor. If applicable, separate suggestions are given for the PLAN and the DO. Plan
Ghent University’s education strategy can be captured in two catchphrases: “Dare to think” and “Multiperspectivism”. Both concepts …
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What to Do in Case of Blank Exams or the "Absent" Code?
Not every student takes a complete exam for every course unit. This education tip helps you determine when to mark an incomplete exam and when to use the 'absent' code. It also advises on what to do if you can no longer find a student's exam or paper.
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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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