425 search results for “optimal teaching” in the Staff website
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Oscar Gobée
Faculteit Geneeskunde
o.p.gobee@lumc.nl | +31 71 526 6673
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I-Hsien Lin
Faculty of Humanities
i.lin@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5733
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Ying-ting Wang
Faculty of Humanities
y.wang@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2520
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Call: share your teaching methods with colleagues!
Education
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Teacher development
Leiden University considers good education to be of paramount importance. That is why we invest in our teachers’ professional development, to ensure that their teaching methods continue to match the needs of individual students.
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Hybrid teaching support service available for lecturers
Education, ICT
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Ten lecturers receive Senior Teaching Qualification
On 28 June, ten dedicated lecturers received their Senior Teaching Qualification (SKO). Rector Hester Bijl congratulated them in an online meeting. We asked some of them what this qualification means to them, what they believe ‘good teaching’ entails and what makes them so passionate about education…
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Nominees announced for LUS Teaching Prize
Els de Busser (Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs), Ayo Adedokun (LUC The Hague) and David Fontijn (Faculty of Archaeology) have been nominated for the LUS Teaching Prize 2020-2021.
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Fifteen lecturers gain Senior Teaching Qualification
Fifteen passionate lecturers earned their Senior Teaching Qualification (SKO) on Monday 22 January. Rector Magnificus Hester Bijl congratulated them in the Academy Building. Four of these lecturers talk about what motivated them to take the SKO and how it has benefitted them.
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Olja Karmanova wins Faculty Teaching Prize 2023
The Humanities Faculty Teaching Award has been won by Olja Karmanova. The Russian lecturer was presented with the award during the opening of the faculty year.
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Actively working with the teaching material in the classroom
How do you get more interaction with your students during class? Paz Gonzalez has devised a method by which she gives her students an active role during class, turning (even large-scale) lectures into a seminar.
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Useful resources on ChatGPT for teaching staff
Education
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Benchmarking Discrete Optimization Heuristics
PhD defence
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Zoom available for teaching from 22 January on
From 22 January on, the video conferencing app Zoom will be available for students and teachers at Leiden University. The University is responding to calls by staff and students, and has now acquired the programme.
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Comenius teaching grants for four Leiden lecturers
Four lecturers from Leiden University will receive a 50,000-euro Comenius Teaching Fellow grant. This will enable them and their team to realise an educational innovation within their own teaching.
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‘We teach in the FC Emmen canteen’
Alumna Louwien Eising is headteacher of Carmel College in Emmen. How have things been during the pandemic? And how has her degree in Education and Child Studies helped her? ‘In the evening I was attending lectures and the next day I was applying what I’d learnt in the classroom.’
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How do you evaluate quality of teaching?
What do we really know about educational quality and its measurement? This was the subject of the first Higher Education Knowledge Café.
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Education and teaching: an exciting year at the faculty
There are lots of important items on the education and teaching agenda for 2024. Reaccreditation for the Law programmes including Notarial Law and Tax Law degree programmes, preparations for the implementation of the Kernvisie Bachelor, a new online teaching platform and a Teaching Fair, to name just…
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Applications of quantum annealing in combinatorial optimization
PhD defence
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Subject-specific building blocks keep teaching interesting
Teachers have to find a balance between routine and renewal of their teaching repertoire. Eveline de Boer (PhD student at ICLON) investigated how didactic building blocks can help them with this. Defence on June 15.
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Andrew Gawthorpe wins the Carla Musterd Award for Teaching
At the latest Institute Council meeting in November, the institute’s biannual prize for teaching was awarded. The award is named after Carla Musterd, a former, highly valued member of staff, who was famous for her unflinching dedication to teaching standards and excellence. The award was created to…
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Astrid Van Weyenberg wins Faculty Teaching Prize 2022
University lecturer Astrid Van Weyenberg has won the Faculty of Humanities Teaching Prize. ‘Astrid is a lovely person who can teach well.'
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Comenius Teaching Fellows: Application still open until September 19th
Education, Finance, Research
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Call: develop an interdisciplinary teaching pilot for the professional market
Education
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Call for Teaching Fellowship applicants: contact the advisors
Research
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Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization (EMO) conference
Conference
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These are the nominees for the 2022 Faculty Teaching Prize!
Every year, an outstanding lecturer receives the Faculty Teaching Prize. Lecturers are nominated by students, and a jury – comprising students and lecturers – decides who will receive the prize. The prize will be awarded during the official opening of the academic year on 7 September. Meet this year’s…
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A call about: support for lecturers with hybrid teaching
In the coming academic year things will hopefully gradually return to normal, so that teaching can again take place as far as possible on campus. Even so, hybrid teaching is here to stay. We talk to Niels van de Ven, former lecturer at Leiden Law School and now Education Manager at the Centre for Innovation…
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directors meet again: ‘We are all working towards the same goal: good teaching’
They are responsible for a wide range of bachelor’s and master’s degree programmes but have more than enough in common to discuss: the programme directors and chairs. They met for the second time on 25 April to share knowledge and experiences and receive an update from Hester Bijl on strategic developments…
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JSVO teaching prizes for Maarten Kunst and Jonathan Huijts
The winners of the JSVO teaching prizes for academic year 2020-2021 were announced at the opening of the faculty year on 7 September 2021.
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A call about: the ventilation of our teaching rooms
Our lecturers are back on campus sooner than the rest of the staff. Away from their screens and in live contact with students: many lecturers are relieved, but some are concerned. Have sufficient steps been taken at our teaching locations? What about ventilation? We spoke to Michel Leenders who, as…
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Reminder: Teaching Fellows Comenius programme deadline 20 September
Research
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Save the date: The Teaching Fair is back!
Education
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Teacher Support Desk Archaeology: for all your teaching related help
Education, Organisation
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Hanne Cuyckens and Daan Weggemans appointed Teaching Fellow
Hanne Cuyckens and Daan Weggemans have been appointed Teaching Fellow and Member of the Leiden Teachers' Academy (LTA) from 1 September 2023.
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On the optimization of imaging pipelines
PhD defence
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Teaching Fair 2023: what can we look forward to?
The Teaching Fair is once again upon us. What can we expect from this year's afternoon of inspiration for teachers? Three participants tell us.
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Request hard copies of teaching materials by 15 January
Education
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A glimpse into my research between Bayesian Optimization and Mechanics
Lecture
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Multi-objective Evolutionary Algorithms for Optimal Scheduling
PhD defence
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A brief introduction to GPU programming and optimization
Lecture
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Sarah Wolff: 'Doing research and teaching are inseparable'
Sarah Wolff has been professor of International Studies and Global Politics since 8 January. Time for a brief introduction about her field and academic interests.
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From data to discoveries: machine learning and optimization in space
Lecture
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Meet Leiden Law School’s new teaching and learning specialist: 'enhancing modules together'
Education, Organisation
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University Young Interfaculty and Leiden Teacher Academy Lunch on Teaching
Organisation
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PhD Supervision Excellence Training for Academic Staff
Training
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From obtaining a Master in Child Law to a lateral entry in teaching
This month we interview alumna Dominique Mars who made an interesting career choice: she tells us how she chose to be a teacher at a primary school whilst having obtained her Master in Child Law.
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Professional expenses
If you incur professional expenses, such as professional association fees, you can offset these expenses against your gross income via the Individual Choices Model.
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David Fontijn was nominated for University Teaching Prize: ‘I cut my online lectures in manageable chunks’
Archaeologist David Fontijn was nominated for the University Teaching Prize. His students nominated him for this award for his innovative ways of online teaching. In the corona-year 2020-2021 he gave a new course and experimented with the way he taught. ‘It clearly appealed to the students, so we are…