Centre for Academic Teaching and Learning

The Centre for Academic Teaching and Learning is a network organisation of Utrecht University. The Centre brings together all the partners and programmes that work within the university for the continuous improvement of education.

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    High ratings for use of Brightspace

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    17 April 2025

    Brightspace, Utrecht University's (UU) new online learning environment, was used for the first time by a select group of lecturers and students during periods 1 and 2 of this academic year. To great satisfaction.
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    Innovation in law education: pleading in virtual reality as a learning tool

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    14 April 2025

    Emanuel van Dongen was involved in the national Pleitvrij project and started a faculty USO project to introduce Virtual Reality (VR) pleading at Utrecht Law College.
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    Learn about the history of Palestinian people in a new online course

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    7 April 2025

    In the free Contemporary Palestinian History, you will deepen your understanding of Palestinian history and the development of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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    Research on your own teaching: 10 interesting poster presentations

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    31 March 2025

    Integrated in the OnderwijsFestival programme, there was attention for research on teaching and learning, or Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.

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• Events

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  • 6 May

    Activate your students with Brightspace

    6 May 2025 from 10:00 to 12:00

    Brightspace presents various tools to activate students and make your teaching more blended, therefore facilitating different forms of education.
  • 6 May

    Scholarly teaching for seminar teachers

    6 May 2025 from 15:15 to 16:45

    Scholarly teaching means that you approach your teaching in a scholarly way. You can also work scholarly as a seminar teacher.
  • 12 May

    No seriously, let's play! Games en play in education

    12 May 2025 from 15:15 to 16:45

    More and more teachers are using Games and Play in their own teaching. This is not surprising, because playful activities can have serious (learning) effects.
  • 15 May

    Comparative assessment with Comproved - Exchange and Inspiration session

    15 May 2025 from 13:15 to 14:45

    Evaluations based on comparisons? For many it is an intuitive process to compare two products with each other, and base your assessment on the comparison between the two products. But what do you do when you have to compare more than 50 assignments?

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