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Active Learning Network - February Meeting
Network Meeting
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Hybrid teaching
Get inspired by these tips from colleagues in and outside Leiden. If there are any tips about (online) education that you would like to add, feel free to send us a message.
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University Teaching Qualification (BKO)
Good teaching is a skill in itself. In order to guarantee the quality of education in the Netherlands, the University Teaching Qualification (Basis Kwalificatie Onderwijs, BKO) is now compulsory for all lecturers, university lecturers (UD), senior university lecturers (UHD) and professors. What does…
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Dutch Higher Education Award 2022: second place for The Learning Mindset
The Leiden University College (LUC) education team behind The Learning Mindset (TLM) has received 800,000 euro’s during the Dutch Higher Education Award Ceremony 2022. The LUC team was second behind Universteit Twente. The prize was awarded during the annual Comenius Festival of the Comenius Network.…
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Collaborative learning
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.
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Teaching academic integrity
Within all bachelor’s and master’s programmes, depending on the type of programme, attention is paid to ensuring that academic research is carried out scrupulously. For each programme, this is done in a way that is appropriate for the discipline in question.
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Contact person for the University Teaching Qualification
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.…
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Mike Field’s Leiden Experience: ‘I try to make research teaching and teaching research.’
Mike Field has been at the Faculty of Archaeology since 2008. As a driven archaeobotanist, he is consistantly contributing to the study of plant fossils encountered in many faculty as well as external projects. ‘Flexibility, spontaneity, creativity, these are all parts of being an academic.’
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Online learning
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.
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Brightspace digital learning environment
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.
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Annual report for 2019 published
Leiden University has published its annual report for 2019. The report is a testament to everyone’s hard work and creativity and shows just how much we have achieved together: students, lecturers, researchers, support staff, administrators and supervisors alike.
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Active Learning Network - May
Network Meeting
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Active Learning Network - June
Network Meeting
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Active Learning Network - March
Network Meeting
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Active Learning Network - April
Network Meeting
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High response to NSE 2021: Leiden students fairly satisfied despite coronavirus
Leiden students are fairly satisfied with their degree programme. This is clear from the first results of the National Student Survey 2021, which was held this spring. The scores are somewhat lower than the national average. Students are most positive about their lecturers, their contact with them and…
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Update 3 November: No changes to our teaching and research from new COVID-19 measures
Education, Organisation, Research
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Inclusive education - Making the change
Didactics
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E-learning skills platform
The E-learning Skills Platform is available in Brightspace for all staff and students at the Faculty of Science. On this platform, students can practice skills they encounter during their studies whenever and where they want. Teachers can integrate the modules of the platform in their lectures to provide…
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Corona & teaching and research at our faculty: update September 29, 2020
Facility, Organisation
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Communication strategy
Our communication strategy emphasises the achievements of Leiden University researchers and students and supports our mission and core values.
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Workshops and training programmes
The University does everything in its power to continuously increase the professionality of its teaching staff. Two of the ways we do this are via the BKO and SKO programmes, but we also offer other workshops and training programmes on teaching and ICT.
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‘Lecturers have to have time and room to experiment with new teaching methods’
Motivated, innovative lecturers are the driving force behind our teaching. Thijs Porck is a lecturer in Medieval English at the Leiden Centre for the Arts in Society. He passed the Senior Teaching Qualification at the end of last year. ‘As a lecturer, it’s good to keep thinking about what motivates…
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Brightspace digital learning environment
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.
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Activating learning with interaction tools
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.
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'Our teaching and research make a difference, and together we're making that message heard. '
Tuesday 21 April 2020 we heard that most of the Corona measures will remain in place until at least 20 May 2020. Dean Paul Wouters emphasizes the power of education and research within the social sciences in times of intelligent lockdown.
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Dineke Tigelaar
ICLON
dtigelaar@iclon.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6552
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Call for Applications: Teaching Excellence Training for Academic Staff
What is 'teaching excellence' in Higher Education? Which different teaching excellence training, promotion and reward schemes exist across Europe? How can a common European teaching scheme look like? The e-NOTE project led by Leiden University seeks to answer these question in cooperation with five…
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Leiden alumni who graduated between 2016-2018 soon found a job
Most Leiden master’s students who graduated between October 2016 and September 2018 soon found a job that was related to their degree programme. These are the results of the 2019 Dutch National Alumni Survey (NAE: Nationale Alumni Enquête). The effects of the coronavirus crisis on the labour market…
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Nuno De Mesquita César de Sá
Science
n.q.de.mesquita.cesar.de.sa@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
- Carol and Eric M. Meyers on Teaching and Research Visit in Leiden
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Background information on student well-being
To find out more about student well-being, check out the information below.
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symposium on student well-being: ‘Building on a healthy, engaged and learning community’
Over 200 staff from Leiden University discussed student well-being with one another and students at the Staff Symposium on Student Well-being. In various workshops and lectures, lecturers, student advisers, student counsellors and other staff members discussed how they could contribute to our students’…
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Teaching Prize winner Ayo Adedokun: teaching is a calling
‘Teaching is not merely a profession; it’s a calling.’ These were the words of Ayo Adedokun on winning the LUS Teaching Prize at the opening of the academic year on 6 September. The prize is for the best lecturer of the year.
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‘Patient demonstrations are a good tool in medical teaching’
On 7 July 2020 medical lecturer Luuk Willems received his SKO certificate (Senior Teaching Qualification) and may now officially call himself a senior lecturer. The course has meant that he now has clear ideas about what he wants to achieve in his teaching. ‘I want to strengthen my role as a coach and…
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How to create a successful transnational learning environment
With more than 20,000 Omani students registered in British programmes in 2017/2018, the number of transnational students is quite substantial in Oman. The transnational learning environment is new to practically all the teaching staff as well as the students. Antonia Lamers, PhD at ICLON, researched…
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Brightspace digital learning environment
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.
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Preparation project management tooling for research projects
Within the LRS programme, we began to prepare last autumn for the possible purchase of research project management tooling. We are looking at where tooling could help researchers and support staff with applying for research projects as well as with managing, financially administering and reporting on…
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Research scientific programmer, Automated machine learning for spatio-temporal Earth Observation datasets
Science, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS)
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Teaching can be counted as transferable skill for max. 20 hours
Considering the fact that PhD candidates spend a lot of time on teaching and develop valuable transferable skills in this process, the Doctorate Board agreed that teaching hours (for a max. of 20 hours) can be included as transferable skills. So this counts as part of the compulsory 140 hours of transferable…
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Workshop on collaborative learning by Jan Sleutels
During the digital education seminar 'Reflections on 2020 and new perspectives for 2021', we will discuss our achievements in online & blended education. There will be a diverse selection of workshops relevant for anyone involved in education. Senior university lecturer Jan Sleutels will be giving a…
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PhD candidate, Robustness Verification for Meta-learned Neural Networks
Science, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS)
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Nadira Saab
ICLON
n.saab@iclon.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5726
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Lotte Fikkers wins Faculty Teaching Prize 2020
Lotte Fikkers, university lecturer in English literature, received the Faculty Teaching Prize at the opening of the faculty year. ‘She is clearly very passionate about her profession.’
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Lise Stork
Science
l.stork@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4799
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Simone Rijksen
ICLON
s.rijksen@iclon.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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New Manual Remote Testing and Code of Conduct Online Teaching available
Education
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EUniWell Open Lecture Series | Teaching of primary education teachers on European citizenship, environment and migration
Lecture, Lecture part of a series
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Educational support units
In all matters regarding education, Leiden University faculties are supported by the Expertise Centre for Student and Educational Affairs, ICLON and the Faculty Educational Office.
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Remote Teaching webinars: Send us your idea!
Education