During the Inspiration Café on 11 June, UU lecturer Tomas Klos (Faculty of Science) talked about his experiences with online education. Due to the corona crisis, all UU education has been taking place online since the middle of block 3. Tomas’ subject (Datastructuren en Algoritmen voor Kunstmatige Intelligentie) started in block 4, which gave him more time…

In this article, David Baneke, assistant professor at UU, talks about distance learning in corona times. How does he tackle it, how are things going, and what do he and his students think about it? “The course Science and the Dilemmas of Modernity of the master History and Philosophy of Science started in period 4, so I had time to…

All teachers from schools and higher education institutions are currently working hard to organize distance education. Anne van Veen, PhD candidate at the Freudenthal Institute, talks about her experiences with online education. “In period 3, together with Stephen Snelders, Toine Pieters and many guest lecturers, I coordinate and teach the Pharmacy Bachelor’s choice course Addiction…

All teachers from schools and higher education institutions are currently working hard to organize distance learning. Ralph Meulenbroeks, assistant professor at UU, talks about his experiences with online education.  “The digital revolution has its blessings in education. This became apparent when we (partially) went into lock down and all education in the Netherlands all of…

Walking through Utrecht and using your smartphone to learn more about the history of the city via augmented reality: five undergraduate students laid the foundation for this during the brand new Living Pasts course. The prototype the students have developed can already be viewed online, and the idea is for other students to build on…

During the master course Communicating Science with the Public (CSP) of the Freudenthal Institute, students learn to write a public text and make a knowledge clip about a scientific topic, and can use the facilities of the TLL. Below you can view the top rated clips: Antibiotics and resistance By: Mae van Gemert and Koos…

Mohammadreza Farrokhnia is a physics teacher, working for the Iranian ministry of education, and PhD candidate at Tarbiat Modares university of Tehran. His research focuses on effective physics teaching and learning strategies in the field of educational technology. As part of his PhD program, he is visiting the Freudenthal Institute from July 2018 till September 2019, where he conducts research in the Teaching & Learning Lab on student-generated animation as an approach for learning physics.  Most of Farrokhnia’s research is…

Programming skills are becoming increasingly important in all kinds of fields. To prepare students for this, Dirk Gerritsen (coordinator of the Masters program, School of Economics) and Robbert Pullen (trainer at the Optiver company) have developed a course on financial algorithms for students from both the School of Economics and the Science Faculty of Utrecht…

When Jasper van Winden started experimenting with a flipped classroom in his courses, the activating learning methods didn’t quite pan out, because his lessons were held in traditional auditoriums with rows of seats and the lecturer standing in front. So he spent two years converting the Teaching & Learning Lab (TLL) into an Active Learning…

Prof. Dr. Ferdi Engels, lecturer at the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and director of the Undergraduate School of Science at Utrecht University, has tried out a new teaching method in the Teaching & Learning Lab (TLL): Reciprocal peer tutoring. This involves linking pairs of students with different disciplinary backgrounds or experiences and letting them learn…