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Digital tools and methods: a faculty-wide Ufora course Digital Humanities: Learning Paths
In the context of the faculty educational innovation project ‘learning path digital literacy’ (in Dutch), the Faculty of Arts & Philosophy developed a faculty-wide Ufora course on digital tools and methods. This concept of a shared faculty learning platform makes it possible to bring expertise together and to spread …
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Students’ Diversity Competencies: How to Put Them into (Teaching) Practice?
Strengthening your students' diversity competencies means preparing them to function in a diverse society and professional context. On the one hand, you can offer your students content-related knowledge about diversity as a social reality in relation to their discipline; on the other hand, learning to co-operate in a diverse setting …
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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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Lecturers’ Surveys at Ghent University
In the run-up to the institutional review, Ghent University held a lecturers’ survey for the first time in 2015 (in Dutch). The purpose of this survey was to compare the lecturers’ input to the input of other interal and external stakeholders (students, alumni, …). New lecturers’ surveys will be …
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Master's Dissertation Survey
Each year, final-year students are given the chance to give feedback on their study programme by means of the Study Programme Feedback. Since 2020, the Study Programme Feedback question set contains a separate section on the Master’s dissertation: all final-year students in a Master’s programme are asked to give feedback …
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What is Mentoring?
Mentoring is one-on-one coaching of a (new) student by a more experienced student. A mentor can provide content-related or practical support, give study tips or guide the mentee.
What to Expect from a Mentor?Based on their own knowledge and experience, a mentor provides explanations, tips and …
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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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Omeka S: improving digital literacy through virtual exhibitions
What is Omeka S?
Omeka S(emantic) is a free and user-friendly open-source web publishing platform that allows you to
create, manage and share a digital collection of metadata; build a virtual exhibition through various media.Omeka S focuses on institutions and researchers who want to share their collection or research …
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Education Based on Excellent Research
The following education tip provides inspiration to write Chapter 'Education Based on Excellent Research' of the Faculty Monitor. If applicable, separate suggestions are given for the PLAN and the DO. Plan
Ghent University aims to provide education that is maximally embedded within the dynamics of academic research. Academic creativity, …
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Education and Examination Code
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Self-authoring Tool for Interactive Learning Pathways (Project 6.2)
A self-authoring tool for interactive learning pathways, sometimes also known as an e-authoring tool, is a specially designed software that enables lecturers to develop various digital learning activities and support elements, to share them with students and colleagues and to adapt and re-use them. A self-authoring tool goes …
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Sharing Lecture Recordings and Learning Materials: Dos and Don’ts
What are the do’s and don’ts of sharing lecture recordings and learning materials? This question has recently been prominent on lecturers’ and students’ (student unions’) minds. The answer to this question is not clear-cut. First and foremost, there is the legal framework provided by the Education and Examination Code. Then, …
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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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How to Prepare Students for Work Placement Assessment?
Right from the start of the work placement, make sure to discuss all aspects of the assessment (by whom, what, how and when) with all the people involved. The assessment will be more fair, consistent, objective and substantiated if the following elements are clear from the start:
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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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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 Efficiently Check Work Placement Documents?
Work placement folders or portfolios are often used as instruments to supervise and assess work placements. A considerable disadvantage of these, however, is that they take a lot of time to check afterwards. Try to find a balance between an assignment that can be checked in a limited amount of …
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How can you let students participate in setting work placement objectives?
It is important to start from clear work placement competencies. These should be clearly phrased and transparently communicated to students. They can be a starting point for letting the students phrase their own work placement objectives that accentuate, concretize or deepen the learning outcomes, thus increasing engagement and motivation. …
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How to Organize Work Placement Observations?
Both the work placement supervisor and the work placement mentor can observe the students during their work placement. How often this happens, depends on various factors (such as the year of study, the characteristics of the work placement, the experience the students have with work placements, the number of students). …
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