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Education Support Services Contacts
On 10 February 2021, the Education Council ratified Ghent University's Education Support Services 2.0, consisting of general support services for study programmes and lecturers, and tailor-made support services for faculties and study programmes developed by the Education Support Team.
Institutional Education Support ServicesThe Education Support Team brings together Quality …
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Give Your Students a Boost: Awareness of Student Well-Being in Class
Why Increase Student Well-Being in Class?
Students who feel good about themselves, can achieve a stronger learning process and are less likely to drop out. As a lecturer, you can increase the well-being of your students during class with small interventions and promote mutual contact between students. It is important …
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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 potent teaching …
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How to Assess Participation?
We all want our students to be involved and to participate actively in class. But how to assess that?
What is Participation?Participation includes students' commitment to e.g. talks, discussions, practicals, exercises... Please note, however, that the assessment of participation can only to a limited extent count towards the final …
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How to Organize (Blended) Practicals?
What is a practical? How do you prepare a practical? How do you ensure that students get the most out of your practical? This Education Tip provides answers to these questions and focuses closely on your role as a supervisor of practicals.
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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 the answers …
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How to Incorporate Language Proficiency into Your Study Programme
Is Language Proficiency Relevant in the Study Programme?
At Ghent University, we educate our students to be astute communicators, which is an essential skill in our network society. Students enhance their communication skills by training in academic and professional language skills during their studies. In most study programmes, these linguistic …
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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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Feedback: (Almost) Everything You Need to Know
Giving feedback means giving students input on how they perform in a specific assignment or process or on their (learning) behaviour. They can gain such input either from introspection or from others, i.e. lecturers, peers, a book, etc. Feedback is a means to narrow the gap between any given stage …
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Incorporating Social Impact Issues into the Study Programme
Why is social impact relevant for your programme?
Your programme prepares graduates for a role in society, that much is obvious. As a programme, it is important that there is some reflection on how this role is realised. Should the focus be solely on “preparation for the job market”, or …
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Competency Model: the Competencies Fostered in our Training Offer
Ghent University’s training offer for individual lecturers (developed by the Education and Study Programme Support Team) aims to foster your teaching competencies. Among other things, it comprises:
didactic competencies we consider an essential prerequisite for premium-quality education. These competencies contain a growth perspective and are used in education support initiatives … Read more -
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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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Wooclap: a Digital Voting System
Wooclap is a digital voting system supported by Ghent University that contains various options for creating (anonymous) interaction during synchronous and asynchronous teaching moments.
You can find this page on the intranet: https://ugentbe.sharepoint.com/sites/intranet-ict/SitePages/Wooclap.aspx?connectsource=TopicNavigator
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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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Course Sheets: How to Complete Them Correctly?
General Information on Course Sheets What is a Course Sheet and Why is a Good Course Sheet Important?
A course sheet contains a description of a course unit's content and organisation and can be found in the study guide.
A course sheet:
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Excursion: Introducing Your Students to Real Contexts
Does exposing students to the real context of a company, organisation or project provide added value? Then take the students on a excursion
What is an Excursion?On a excursion, you take your students to a company, an organisation, an institution, a museum, etc. You can either guide the tour …
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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 imply that …
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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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Deducting Marks for Spelling Mistakes?
To deduct marks for spelling mistakes, or not to deduct marks for spelling mistakes? That is the question. The answer is yes, but only if you have included language competencies in your course unit's competencies. If not, the answer is no.
When to Deduct Marks for Spelling Mistakes? an assessment … Read more -
The Master’s Dissertation: How to Assess it?
In a Master's dissertation, students demonstrate their "general critical-reflective attitude and/or their research attitude", through an assignment (source: Codex Higher Education - in Dutch). Therefore, these competencies are always at the core of the assessment.
How to Assess a Master's Dissertation?The Education and Examination Code (Dutch: OER) do …
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