Didactic methods and techniques to bring your teaching into practice.

Training, workshops, and coaching opportunities for teachers.

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Kaltura (Personal) Capture allows you to make recordings in various ways and upload them to the video portal.

Audio podcasts or audio recordings have a broad range of opportunities in education. Podcasts can be used to transfer knowledge (audio lectures), record interviews, record instructions for a field trip or to make a short radio documentary on location. Podcasts are a flexible medium, the small file size…

On the secure platform LUCA (Leiden University Cognitive Agent), you as a teacher have the opportunity to experiment with conditioning specific chatbots for the students following your courses.

Didactics

Regular feedback is crucial to our students' learning process. As you cannot always provide extensive feedback yourself, it is useful to incorporate peer-feedback activities into your course.

Lecture, Ancient History Research Seminar

Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars

Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series

Lecture, CHiLL series

Flexible learning pathways are one of the ambitions of our vision on teaching and learning (Learning@LeidenUniversity).

The use of (generative) AI in education, be it by students or lecturers, is increasing. This technology offers opportunities that can benefit teaching and learning but also comes with serious issues regarding privacy, plagiarism, integrity and ownership.

At the Faculty of Science, we value quality assurance and evidence-informed educational innovation. As a lecturer, you should always reflect on your teaching and, if necessary, make improvements from one teaching moment to the next. You can also take initiative to innovate your course or teaching activity…

Digital tools and campus facilities for active learning and digital assessment.

Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series

Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series

Lecturers and/or members of a research group at our faculty, may be asked to supervise BSc or MSc students during their studies and research projects.

Lecture, This Time for Africa! series

This page provides more information about the mentor-tutor system at Leiden University. What is it? What are its objectives? Where can mentors, tutors, and coordinators find more information and teaching materials?

Leiden University supports lecturers in designing and delivering high-quality education. Here you can find more information about the vision on teaching and learning, didactic tools and regulations, as well as answers to questions such as: How can I make my lectures interactive? Where can I find the…

Continuously improving education requires keen insight into quality and results. Here you will find more information about the instruments and committees that help safeguard education quality, as well as answers to questions such as: What management information does the education dashboard offer? What…

Welcome to the Expertise Centre for Teaching and Learning (ECOLe). Here you will find information on didactics, teacher development, teaching innovation, assessment and the use of teaching tools at humanities. Have a question or need advice? E-mail ecole@hum.leidenuniv.nl.

Kamerlingh Onnes Building, Steenschuur 25, 2311 ES, Leiden

For your teaching and research you can usually loan audio-visual equipment, such as a video camera, microphone or audio recorder, from your own Faculty.

At Leiden University, we expect our researchers and lecturers to share our ambition to become one of the best. The commitment and quality of our supporting staff is crucial to achieving this. We therefore encourage our staff members to continue to develop their skills. This is the crux of our HR pol…

To make education more inclusive for students with disabilities, it is essential that there is sufficient expertise available in this area within the university. The expertise building group aims to increase knowledge about studying with disabilities among lecturers, student supervisors and other university…

Do you want advice with the ICT that supports your lectures? Or do you need help using Brightspace? Your ICT & Education Coordinator is available for all your questions.

Personal development, Communication, Leadership

In an inclusive learning environment, every student feels welcome, valued and respected.

Didactics

Lecture

Lecture, Global Histories of Knowledge Seminar

Debate

All faculties offer computer rooms for teaching and/or independent study purposes. The University Library also provides study stations with (or without) computer and a group instruction room.

An education grant may be available for collaboration with universities outside The Netherlands. This webpage contains information about the available grants, application procedures and where to look for help and advice.

If students are to develop their talents, they will need an inclusive learning environment where they feel at home and can share their experiences and opinions. This teaching guide helps teaching staff in their ambitions to foster students’ development at our university, regardless of their backgrou…

Didactics

The University Teaching Qualification (UTQ) is proof of the competence for University teaching staff. If you are a lecturer, assistant professor, associate professor and professor with an appointment of 0.5 FTE or more and have been working at the University for a year or more, you must earn the UTQ.…