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Maryse Leloup

Inspiration Drink Sustainability

During the inspiration café on April 9th, Maryse Leloup & Daan Fraanje spoke about improving the sustainability of education. Both work for Educate-it, which has as its mission to improve education at Utrecht University. The university has set itself the goal of being completely CO2 neutral by 2030, an ambitious and noble intention. Although steps…

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Looking back at Inspiration Café Challenged Based Learning

Challenged based courses are gaining in popularity. During the café of 12 March, Jaco Appelman and Jonno van Vulpen talked about their experiences with this type of education. Jaco lets his students solve societal problems with nature-based solutions. Jonno is a Master student of the Bio Inspired Innovation program of the UU and followed some…

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Teaching & Learning Lab Autumn Festival 2020 – ‘Education Everywhere’

We are currently working hard on preparations for the fifth edition of the interactive online Teaching & Learning Lab Autumn Festival 2020. The festival, aimed at secondary and higher education, will take place on Friday afternoon 27 November 2020. The main theme is ‘Education Everywhere’ and will be supported through the sub-themes Augmented / Virtual Reality (AVR) and…

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Inspiration Drink Teaching & Learning Lab

The Teaching & Learning Lab organizes every second thursday of the month an inspiration drink. Alternately a story of a teacher, a student or an interesting education tool is offered. But above all, there is room for exchanging thoughts with colleagues about education while enjoying a bite and a drink. All the online education and working from home has also inspired us and that…

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Inspiration Drink Teaching & Learning Lab: online!

The Teaching & Learning Lab organizes every second thursday of the month an inspiration drink. Alternately a story of a teacher, a student or an interesting education tool is offered. But above all, there is room for exchanging thoughts with colleagues about education while enjoying a bite and a drink. After the first successful edition…

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Inspiration Drink Teaching & Learning Lab – online!

The Teaching & Learning Lab organizes every second thursday of the month an inspiration drink. Alternately a story of a teacher, a student or an interesting education tool is offered. But above all, there is room for exchanging thoughts with colleagues about education while enjoying a bite and a drink. All the online education and working from home has also inspired us and that…

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Virtual Classroom

Virtual classroom: make your reservation now!

The virtual classroom enables you to teach remotely from the studio. During the lesson the teacher is in front of six screens, each with a maximum of six online visible participants. There is also a view of two other screens that may for instance show presentations or the results of online questions. It is now…

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Peer Observation Scheme for Lecturers

Lecturing is quite an individual job, what happens in the classroom, stays in the classroom. To improve your teaching you could either follow a programme or ask for educational advice. Or you could ask a fellow lecturer to observe your teaching, for example with help of CAT’s new Peer Tutoring Scheme. In the Peer Observation Scheme, two lecturers…

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