Small, large or even massive online courses from universities all over the world, for free, or in some cases a fee. That is what we call MOOCs (massive open online courses) on worldwide platforms, or SPOCs (small private online courses) in a more closed setting where the learner is invited.

Human resources

Luckily we’ve been able to meet up on campus again for a few months now after two years of mainly online teaching. Alongside the inconvenience, enforced digitalisation has brought us valuable innovations and smart tools. The question is: what’s going well and what could we do differently? I’d love to…

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…

Blended learning is a well-thought-out mix of online and on-campus learning, tailored to the learning objectives, the curriculum and the student. It contributes to the student’s learning experience and the quality of teaching. Blended learning can incorporate both synchronous and asynchronous activi…

Communication, Personal development, Diversity

Career development, Personal development

Didactics

Career development, Working effectively, Leadership

Brightspace is the heart of the University’s digital learning environment. Lecturers can use it to provide online support for a lecture or course. They can bring together assignments, lecture sheets and literature, and keep this up to date. Students thus have access to all their learning materials.

Career development, Personal development, Working effectively

Personal development, Career development

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.

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

Do you want to improve your knowledge about privacy and working securely? And make sure that you never get caught out by a phishing e-mail, and that your passwords are strong? Then start working through the cybersecurity and privacy e-learning modules on Awaretrain.

Do you need help creating or using online teaching methods, or are you running into difficulties? We are here to help you with your ICT- and didactic-related queries.

The Events Office is happy to help organise an online event, but you can also do it yourself. You will find resources and support for this on this page.

Career development, Leadership

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…

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.

Career development, Leadership

Brightspace is the heart of the University’s digital learning environment. Lecturers can use Brightspace to support a lecture or course with digital resources. They can post assignments, lecture slides and literature in the same place and keep them up to date, giving students access to all their teaching…

If you want to hold a group discussion, a video conference call or make calls online, the information below sets out the possibilities.

All University employees and researchers have a personal profile page on the website. This page will show where you work and how you can be reached.

Since we are working from home we are extra vulnerable for cyber attacks and data breaches. Please create a secure online workplace, by executing the following steps.

All employees of Leiden University handle data or personal information. And it is very likely that, at some point or another, everyone will receive a suspicious email or have to deal with other attempts by hackers to gain access to this data. Some cybercriminals try to obtain data because they want…

Leiden University is a member of the Caring Universities alliance. Their programmes are an easy way for students to work on their mental health. The platform Gezonde Boel also offers e-modules.

Didactics

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ICT

Science, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS)

Science, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS)

We can all look back on a turbulent year, a year in which we rapidly switched to working – and learning – online. Because pandemic or not, many staff members have continued to work on their development. Last year the Learning & Development team developed a wide range of online courses and training,…

Education

How do digital technologies affect adolescent mental health and resilience? How do we foster a secure online environment? How should we deal with increasing rates of online crimes among adolescents? During the mini-symposium ‘The effect of the online world on adolescents’, presented by the interdisciplinary…

ICT

The Academy for Professionals project started in November. The project will focus on further developing existing and new educational programmes for professionals. ‘This is part of taking valorisation seriously.’