The Inspiration Café for May was presented by Anneke van Houwelingen and Judith Loopers. We discussed Community Engaged Learning (CEL), where students, teachers, and partners learn from and with each other by working on societal issues. A comparison was quickly made with the topic of the previous Inspiration Café: Challenge Based Learning (CBL). The difference…

This time, the Inspiration Café was organized by Minke Brinkman and Dimitra Mousa. The theme of the day was Challenge Based Learning (CBL): a pedagogical approach that allows students to conceptualize and investigate real-world problems and challenges. CBL provides teachers and professors with tools to structure their lessons in a transdisciplinary manner, thus creating a…

In education, collaboration plays a crucial role in fostering engagement, interaction, and knowledge exchange among students. On February 29, a special workshop took place during the Inspiration Café, led by educational innovators Laurien Janssen, Tom Frijns, and Len Dijstelbloem. The focus? The power and challenges of collaborative learning. The session inspired participants to reflect on…

This time, the Inspiration Café was hosted by Annet van der Riet, Annisa Triyanti, and Ádám Tóth. At the start, we were introduced to CHARM-EU: the Challenge-driven, Accessible, Research-based, Mobile European University. This University Alliance currently spans across eight different countries, and is aligned with nine universities. It began its journey three years ago with…

The last Inspiration café was hosted by assistant professor Anna Shvarts, on the theme of eye-tracking. This café discussed the ins and outs of eye tracking technology and its versatile application in research, which are of particular interest to educational research. For about ten years, Anna has been involved in eye tracking research with its…

The inspiration café on 14 September was hosted by Arthur Bakker, Aitana Bilinski, and Sonja El Yandouzi. The theme of this café was diversity and inclusion: Key challenges for science education. Arthur Bakker shed a light on the importance of inclusive science teaching by showcasing data from interviews with students on their perception regarding inclusion…

During the inspiration café on March 16, we exchanged the familiar space of the Teaching and Learning Lab for Lili’s Proto Lab. Jacob Seifert and Edward Paddon led us past the 3D printers, laser cutters and soldering stations to talk about all the features of the Lab, in the Caroline Bleeker Building. Lili’s Proto Lab…

The inspiration café on February 16th set the stage for the wrap-up of the COIL program. During this program, eight UU teachers got new inspiration to (re)design their courses for Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL). These teachers shared their new ideas during this mini-symposium.   A COIL course focuses on online collaboration between students of…

For semester 1 of the academic year 2023-2024, requests for an Future Learning Space can be submitted until March 24 2023. Applications can be made via this form or by emailing fls@uu.nl. Do you want to provide active learning or group work in your education? And do you feel sometimes limited in regular learning spaces?…

Do you want to provide activating and small-scale education? Are you planning group work and you are planning to use a Future Learning Space for that purpose? If so, please note that the scheduling procedure of a Future Learning Space runs ahead of the reservation process of regular learning spaces! For more information, please read…