Blended Learning is a combination of face-to-face and online learning. In Blended Learning we look at how ICT applications can be used alongside traditional teaching methods to stimulate students to engage more actively with the learning materials. This may require students to work individually or in…

Students learn not only from you, but often also from each other. They do so through analysing each other’s texts, discussions, assessing each other’s work, or completing group assignments. There are various tools available that support this kind of collaborative learning.

MOOCs and SPOCs are courses that people can follow online. MOOC stands for Massive Open Online Course: a course that participants can follow for free via the Internet. SPOC stands for Small Private Online Course. A SPOC can be followed entirely online, just like a MOOC. However, a student may only take…

Education

Brightspace is the digital learning environment of Leiden University as of the 2020/2021 academic year. This means Brightspace will replace Blackboard. It is more user friendly and responsive and offers more possibilities for the future of education.

Leiden University’s vision on teaching and learning expresses where our emphasis lies in teaching students and which new and existing requirements we apply to our curriculum and learning environment. This vision offers a long-term perspective for developing education and marks the start of a process…

Brightspace is the digital learning environment of Leiden University as of the 2020/2021 academic year. This means Brightspace will replace Blackboard. It is more user friendly and responsive and offers more possibilities for the future of education.

Activating learning involves interaction between lecturer and students in the classroom. It can include such activities as voting during lectures, brainstorming sessions, and interactive slides. We offer a number of tools to support you in creating more interaction in the classroom.

Recently, the booklet 'Blended Learning, het versterken van het onderwijs op de Universiteit Leiden' has been launched. Sonja Wagenaar, educational adviser at ICLON, was project manager of the three-year Blended Learning Program in which blended learning training was implemented in the studies Psychology,…

Organisation

Since November 2019 Stephan Raaijmakers is Professor by special appointment of Communicative AI (Artificial Intelligence) at LUCL. Raaijmakers investigates how linguistics can help make Artificial Intelligence smarter.

Education

Learning with the City, a partnership between the Municipality of Leiden, Leiden University and University of Applied Sciences Leiden, has a new online platform. Learning with the City aims to use knowledge and expertise from higher education to solve social issues in Leiden. The platform will help…

Research

Leiden University has officially switched over to digital learning environment Brightspace. Blackboard has therefore been replaced after 20 years. Leiden University College (LUC) will start teaching via Brightspace on Monday 24 August 2020, the other faculties and LUMC will start on 31 August 2020.

Engaged, active students who can see the links within their discipline. These are key aims of the University vision on teaching and learning, but how do you achieve them? An interdisciplinary research team led by ICLON has developed an inventive method that helps lecturers do just that.

Dr. Alise Muok, originally from California, arrived in 2018 for her postdoc position in Leiden, at the Biology Institute. With a grant of the Dutch Cancer Institute (KWF), she is analyzing E. coli behavior in urine to determine the presence of a cancer marker, with her supervisor dr. Ariane Briegel.

Keep the following topics in mind when creating your content for the digital learning environments in the second semester.

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