Didactics

Do you need help in preparing your lectures or courses? You can ask your questions to various organisations within the university.

On this page, you will find more information about what you do as a mentoring coordinator and where you can find more information to help you perform your role as well as possible.

Honours education caters to the most talented and motivated students at Leiden University. Students receive honours education in addition to their regular bachelor’s or master’s programmes. Furthermore, honours education is available to pupils in the final two years of secondary school.

All persons making use of Leiden University buildings and grounds must comply with the general University house rules. These are listed in the Regulations on the Use of University Buildings, Grounds and Other Facilities, and are intended to guarantee order and safety for guests and staff alike.

Research

Active learning is one of the ambitions mentioned in the University’s educational vision (Learning@LeidenUniversity).

This page is helpful if you want to produce knowledge clips, ask your students to work with multimedia themselves or ‘flip’ your teaching with video or audio material.

In 2022-2023 eight (teams of) teachers received a Grassroots or Grass shoots grant. Here you can read about their projects.

A good understanding of the quality of education is important for all parties involved: students, lecturers, Board members and support staff alike. We work with external experts to monitor the quality of our degree programmes and ensure that we meet our goals, that we implement our vision on teaching…

In the coming years, the University will be investing in blended learning (‘The Blended University’) as part of its educational vision (Learning@LeidenUniversity). This will involve the use of a range of digital tools.

How can you ensure that your research hits the headlines? How can you bring your research output, such as PhD research or a publication, to the attention of the public?

Didactics

Leiden University supports innovation in education in various ways. Teachers are able to experiment and receive support in creating new teaching methods. There are also various grants and funding schemes available.

This section lists awards, scholarships and grants at FSW for which you can nominate/apply for yourself or another person.

Lecture

Lecture

As a lecturer at the Faculty of Science, you can attend different education workshops and trainings. Consult the agenda for upcoming events.

Lecture, Workshop

See your Faculty’s tab for more information on what we expect of you as a lecturer, before, during and after tests and examinations, and when supervising students in writing their thesis.

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.

Whether you’re giving a course for the first time or aiming to update your learning objectives or teaching formats, effective education starts with good course design. This step-by-step plan will help you create or innovate your course: from learning objectives to teaching formats.

On this page we've bundled the best practices which will be presented during the Education Market of 19 June 2025.

As a PhD candidate, you were primarily hired to do research, although you will probably also have to do some teaching. The partial University Teaching Qualification (Basis Kwalificatie Onderwijs, BKO) certificate provides recognition that a PhD candidate has gained knowledge and experience as a teacher.…

To help you make the impact or valorisation of your scientific research more clearly apparent, we have created a Leiden Impact Matrix.

Inaugural lecture

Lecture Hall, Einsteinweg 57, 2333 CC, Leiden

Herta Mohr, Witte Singel 27A, 2311 BG, Leiden

Lecture, L*CeSAR Workshop

LUMC Education Building, Hippocratespad 21, 2333 ZD, Leiden

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

Practical information for lecturers at Leiden University and information about matters such as educational quality and policy.

Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series

Didactic methods and techniques to bring your teaching into practice.

Training, workshops, and coaching opportunities for teachers.

Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series

Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars

Arts and culture, Opera lecture

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…

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.