Prof. Dr. Ferdi Engels is a lecturer at Pharmaceutical Sciences and director of the Undergraduate School of Science at Utrecht University, and he is also coordinator of the Higher Education activities of the Teaching & Learning Lab (TLL). But what does he find so special about the TLL, and why would he want all teachers…

The first ‘Strengthen-Your-Education-week’ was held in the first week of July. Lecturers were enthusiastic about the event: “I discovered new interesting things and I came back to work with inspiration and new ideas”; “Inspiring and worth the effort. It gave me some entirely new ideas.” The week-long event was so well-received, in fact, that the…

Come to the Teaching & Learning Lab Autumn Festival on Friday, November 22, 2019 in Utrecht. This fourth Autumn Festival is for everyone who feels involved in innovation and improvement of secondary and higher education. Take part in workshops, making and listening sessions on activating work forms, blended learning and active learning spaces. Solve an…

Utrecht University has been hard at work developing new revenue models to secure funding for its research and teaching. The TU/e Innovation Lab, which operates as an autonomous entity within TU Eindhoven to connect government and business, has been phenomenally successful at attracting outside funding. Read more

Help creating the future of teaching & learning on November 22nd. Education offered by universities is in transition: from campus learning to online and blended education, from one-size fits all to tailormade education and from lecturing to tutoring. These trends offer myriads of options and that is why we need you. For a full day,…

Do you always use a schoolboard to explain everything to your students, and do you always fill up the board with explanations? Do your students often ask you to ‘explain it one more time’, even though you had already clearly explained something? Then make a knowledge clip with the Lightboard To Go! With the Lightboard To…

The Autumn Festival will take place on Friday, November 22, 2019, on the Utrecht University campus. Casper Hulshof, educational scientist at the UU and known from the book “Juffen zijn toffer dan meesters” [‘female teachers are cooler than male ones’] will open the day with his vision on education and the use of technology. Subsequently,…

Last year, numerous activities were held within the TLL, from activating education for students and pupils to festivals, education workshops and escape rooms. Researchers know to use the TLL for observing their teaching sessions. In the studio, making Lightboard recordings was again a favorite with teachers. Read more in the TLL Activity Report 2018.  …

For everyone involved in improving secondary and higher education: put the TLL Autumn Festival 2019 in your agenda. The Autumn Festival will take place on Friday afternoon, November 22, 2019, on the campus of Utrecht University. More information about the program will be announced later in the spring. Do you want to be kept informed?…

Worldwide, scientists in many disciplines are investigating the pattern underlying success, in the expectation to be able to learn from it. On February 14, Christian Köppe, computer science teacher and researcher at Utrecht University, showed in the TLL inspiration café how patterns can be used to learn from educational practices. The idea originated in architecture,…