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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 in which …
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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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Critical thinking: how do you teach that?
Critical thinking is not inherent in human nature. People tend to look for arguments that support their opinion, and avoid, ignore or minimise counterarguments. However, it is a university’s job to familiarise students with the essential 21st-century ability to learn to think critically. But how do you integrate that into …
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Being approachable as a lecturer: how do you do that?
If students dare to ask you something quickly, this contributes to a safe learning environment. It stimulates the students’ motivation to participate in the lectures. Therefore, the course evaluations by students check, amongst other things, how approachable you are as a lecturer. But how do you make yourself approachable as …
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How to Put Diversity into (Your Teaching) Practice
Diversity in Your Course Units: Relevance?
Today's super diverse society calls for highly skilled knowledge workers, who know how to deal with this reality. It is, therefore, the joint responsibility of study programmes and their lecturers to educate students into professionals who are able to deal with diversity issues in …
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How to Incorporate a Policy on Diversity into Your Study Programme
Diversity in Your Study Programme: Relevance?
Today’s society is very diverse. Inevitably, this means that our university and our study programmes face a number of challenges. Society needs highly educated knowledge workers who know how to deal with the present diversity. It is important, therefore, that students learn to deal …
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Coherent Curriculum: Translating the Programme-Specific Competencies (Learning Outcomes)
What?
A curriculum comprises a coherent whole of course units based on challenging and complex learning outcomes. Coherence is achieved through co-ordination: the Programme Committee ensures that course units within a particular standard study track are well-aligned and that course units in consecutive study tracks are programmed logically. This so-called …
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Assessment and Exit Level
What?
The assessment of the curriculum is spread over the different course units. For each course unit, the final competencies are assessed in a suitable and high-quality fashion. The course-specific learning outcomes contribute to one or more programme-specific competencies. The entire set of assessments determines whether or not the students …
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Publicly Available Information: a Style Guide
At Ghent University we continuously focus on quality assurance and quality culture. Ghent University's quality assurance system offers easily accessible and validated information on each study programme’s unique selling points, strengths and weaknesses. In this Education Tip you will find out why we provide ‘publicly available information’, who is our …
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Academic Writing in a Nutshell: How to Put This Ufora Learning Pathway into (Your Teaching) Practice?
If your students have to make writing assignments (using academic Dutch) and you want to support them in the process, you might consider referring them to the Ufora learning pathway ‘Academic Writing in a Nutshell’. This Education Tip explains the contents of the learning pathway, how students can get to work …
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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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How to Put Language Proficiency into (Your Teaching) Practice?
The Importance of Language Proficiency in Teaching Practice
Ghent University trains its students to become astute communicators (cf. Ghent University's Competency Model, competency area 4). Such a training is essential in our current network society. Throughout their studies, students learn to strengthen their communication skills by working on academic and …
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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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MOOC Projects at Ghent University
In 2018, Ghent University provided funding for a number of MOOC projects. This Education Tip gives an overview of those projects and their collaborators.
Are you interested in finding out what a MOOC can do for your teaching practice? Please consult this Education Tip on MOOCs.
Take a look …
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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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Problem-based education: learning independently in a group
Do you want students to learn to apply knowledge in a professional assignment? Are you looking for a teaching method where students acquire new knowledge in a self-driven and motivated way? Then problem-based education may be a suitable approach for your course unit.
What is problem-based education?Problem-based education is …
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Master’s Dissertation: 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 make artistic creations. Ghent University imposes on all its study programmes a number of provisions as determined by the Education and Examination Code …
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What to Communicate about Your Course Unit on Ufora at the Start of Term?
In an online learning environment, students need guidance on the practical organization of your course unit, the teaching materials, the assessment activities and on how they can reach you. This Education Tip tells you what to communicate at the start of term. If you also want to know how best …
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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 VR creation …
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Online Learning in an International Setting: What and Why?
Online Learning in an International Setting: What?
The digitalisation of higher education offers new online learning opportunities within an international environment. Lecturers and study programmes can implement online international collaboration to promote the students’ international and intercultural learning and multiperspectivism without a long-term study abroad experience.
Various formats, with …
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