To get teachers excited about enhancing their teaching, Educate-it will be organising monthly themes for University Utrecht teachers. March is the month of the (Peer) Feedback. Feedback is an important part of the educational process. It shows students where they are in the learning process and what they need to improve. Teachers interested in learning…

Friday afternoon November 30 well over 200 teachers, students, secondary school pupils, and representatives of business and educational institutions took part in the third Autumn Festival of the Teaching & Learning Lab. Flocking together in the hall of the Koningsberger Building they listened as Isabel Arends, Dean of the Faculty of Science and Judith Tielen,…

On 24 October, the YouTube channel by Ralph Meulenbroeks reached the magic number of one million views. In his videos, the Associate Professor from Utrecht University explains complicated principles of physics so that anyone can understand them. The target group is secondary school physics students, and the channel has proven to be extremely popular among them. “Vlak…

Experience how to effectively integrate knowledge clips in your education. Try to escape from an educational escape room, or learn how to deploy digital tools such as scalable learning and peer-feedback in the classroom. This is a sampling of the Festival of the Teaching & Learning Lab, scheduled on Friday afternoon for teachers, lecturers, students…

In the last block of academic year 17-18 students once more made short knowledge clips during the Master’s course Public Science Communication of the Freudenthal Institute. The three best rated clips are shown below. They’re worthwhile anyway, but especially if you are curious about the effects of caffeine, the dangers of raw meat nutrition for animals or…

3D printers can easily be used in whole class lessons. Within the framework of the ‘3D in Education’ Erasmus+ project lesson plans have been developed for all subjects and for pupils from the first year of secondary school to well into the upper grades. See www.e3du.eu for concrete lesson plans which have been tested in…

Teachers who want to innovate their courses increasingly find their way to the Teaching & Learning Lab (TLL). There, they experiment with new set-ups of furniture, whiteboards and beamers or record clips in the studio, using the transparent Lightboard. The interactive wall is frequently used for brainstorms during student challenges and training sessions, and pedagogy…

The studio has a standard set-up for making Do-It-Yourself (DIY) knowledge clip recordings, in addition to a professional set-up with an operator. This DIY studio is provided by Educate-it and can be used by both staff and students. In the clip below, Maaike van der Veen, Educate-it, explains the use of DIY studios on the campus, including the TLL. Want…

In NVOX (2018, number 3) an article has been published about the TLL Autumn Festival 2017. In this article two parts are highlighted: ‘Escape rooms in the vo’ and ‘The augmented reality sandbox’. Read the article (pdf in Dutch).        

It all started one and a half years ago at the Corderius College in Amersfoort when Hannah and Vroukje, pupils from the fourth grade of secondary school, during an NLT module developed a prototype for a robot named Leaphy. With the help of their teacher Olivier van Beekum and co-students they continued to develop the…