Previous webinars
The Centre for Academic Teaching and partners organised several webinars and online Q&A's for lecturers.
This offer is in line with the demand from lecturers. Among other things, there will be webinars on online assessment, interaction with students and the use of MS Teams.
Missed a webinar/Q&A? You can check this page to view them back. Please find an overview of previous webinars below.
Date and time: 2 november, 12.45-13.15 uur
Language: NL/EN
This month in the lunchbite: Marieke van der Schaaf and Lars de Vreugd will present the learning analytics dashboard which they developed to help students with study behavior and study progress.
In these strange times of online education it can be difficult to create a learning environment that provides students with optimum support. The THERMOS-project aims to contribute to creating such an environment, by providing students at UU with insight and actionable feedback on their study behavior and progress. Students fill out a questionnaire within a learning analytics dashboard, about motivation, engagement and groupwork skills. By providing a visual representation of their self-assessment scores, students gain insight in which aspects of study behavior are strong and which could improve. If a student wants to improve or work on an aspect, follow-up activities are provided within the dashboard to do so. This academic year a pilot will be run within several study programs (e.g. Educational sciences, Biomedical sciences and Information sciences).
Do you want to hear more about this subject or do you have ideas about the teacher role in study behavior of the students? Please join Marieke and Lars in this webinar!
Date and time: 3 november, 10.00 - 11.00 uur
Language: NL/EN
Lecturers are supported with the design and implemention of online education. In this session we will answer your questions about MS Teams. Do you need practical and didactical tips regarding Teams, or are you curious about experiences of colleagues?
This session takes the form of a question hour and takes place on 3 November. MS Teams expert Lana Hoekstra (Educate-it) and an educational advisor (Educational Consultancy & Professional Development) will be present to answer questions about Teams. These can be technical questions (how do I break out in break-out rooms) or more didactic questions (how do I stimulate interaction in a working group in MS Teams).
Date and time: 5 november, 10.00 - 11.30 uur
Voertaal: NL/EN
Lecturers can get support with designing and implementing online education. This session will focus on giving your students feedback and organising student peer feedback. What are ways to do this online or in a hybrid education situation?
In this webinar, you will design a (peer) feedback process that fits your own educational situation. You will learn how to apply (digital) feedback effectively and how to use it to optimise the learning process of students. In other words, it is all about using (peer) feedback to achieve your own educational goals. In addition, attention is paid to the practical and technical side and digital (peer) feedback tools supported by Educate-it are explained.
This webinar is provided by educational advisors Nanette Verhulst and Annet van der Riet.
Date and time: Tuesday 10 November, 13.30 - 15.00 uur
Working language: NL/EN
Remote testing: how do you do it? What possibilities are there? Educational advisors and experts from Educational Consultancy & Professional Development (O&T) and Educate-it are ready to provide you with didactic and practical information and answer your questions. Any questions that cannot be answered directly, we will take them with us and sort them out for you.
Date and time: Thursday 12 November, 11.00 - 12.30 uur
Working language: NL/EN
During this webinar we will discuss various elements with which you can make an online seminar run smoothly. How do you organise a good introduction, how do you stimulate interaction with your students and what kind of working methods are suitable for an online session? In this webinar you will work with interactive assignments and you will be given the tools to create an efficient online seminar.
Date and time: Thursday 12 November, 15.30 - 17.00 uur
Working language: NL/EN
Lecturers are supported with the design and implemention of online education. This session foccusses on one way to increase the interaction with and involvement of students, namely student generated knowledge clips.
In this webinar two courses are highlighted in which the written test has been replaced by knowledge clips. In addition, do's and don'ts are discussed and attention is paid to the assessment of these knowledge clips.
This webinar is provided by educational advisor Elma Zijderveld.
Date and time: 12 November 2020, 4 – 6 PM
The Teaching & Learning Lab organizes an Inspiration Café every second Thursday of the month. Alternately, a story by a teacher, a student or an interesting educational tool will be presented. But above all, there is an opportunity to exchange ideas about education with colleagues. On the 12th of November we will have no less than 5 speakers and we will focus entirely on Lab education.
Lately we have faced all kinds of challenges in education, but making lab education online was one of the bigger ones. How do you simulate conducting an experiment online? Can you do that at all? Two tools within the UU indicate that they offer partial solutions for this and during this Inspiration Café we will give them and the teachers who are currently using it the room to talk about this.
Labster is a tool that jumped into this area a long time ago and offers ready-made virtual lab simulations. The student navigates through a kind of online game, as it were, in which the student looks through a microscope, prepares test tubes, adds substances, etc. In these simulations the student can also make mistakes and for example even create a fire in the lab :O
Alexander Mortensen has been working at Labster for a long time and is happy to tell you more about it. Bas Defize also shares his experiences as a teacher with this tool. He has used Labster several times in his course and is happy to tell you about the pros and cons.
Manoe Janssen & Roel Maas-Bakker chose another alternative in their course; the LabBuddy tool. LabBuddy is an online application for preparing and conducting experiments. It offers possibilities for keeping track of a lab journal, setting up a research design and much more. Together with Elly Langewis and Janine Geerling, Manoe & Roel converted their lab education in period 4 to an online variant in LabBuddy. Roel, Elly & Janine will talk about their experiences and the possibilities the program might offer you.
Do you give lab education and would you like to have better prepared students in your course? Or are you looking for interesting online opportunities to replace parts of your lab education? Or are you just curious about these great online opportunities? Then we'll see you on the 12th of November at 16.00 in Teams! See you then.
Date and time: Thursday 19 November, 11.00 - 12.45 uur
Working language: NL/EN
In this workshop you will be given a number of rules of thumb that a good MC test and open-ended test must meet. In an exercise we will look critically at the quality of your own test questions, so that you can improve them and develop good questions. In addition, you will learn how to put your own test questions in Remindo and how to build up a test. We will also show you how you can reuse questions in other tests. In this way you can build up an itembank from which you can benefit for years to come.
Date and time: Tuesday 1 December, 11.00 - 12.30
Working language: NL/EN
Lecturers are supported with the design and implemention of online education. In this session we will answer your questions about interaction. Do you need practical and didactical tips regarding interaction, or are you curious about experiences of colleagues?
During this session we will focus on stimulating interaction in online education. We will look at teacher-student interaction and student interaction. We will look at getting to know each other and at different working methods that can be used to stimulate interaction and activate students. This session will be provided by educational advisors Sanne Scheurs and Annet van der Riet. Teacher Stef Dingmans also shares his experiences.
If you are unable to attend this session, we may be able to provide you with individual advice or support. Please contact Teaching Support. You can find all tips and sessions on distance learning here.
Date and time: Thursday 3 December, 09:30 - 11:00
Working language: NL/EN
Lecturers are supported with the design and implemention of online education. Are you looking for a tool that facilitates the (peer) feedback process or do you want to offer knowledge clips or articles more interactively to students? In this practical tool workshop we show the use and possibilities of Feedbackfruits.
FeedbackFruits offers various tools for online interaction with a plugin in Blackboard. For example, with the Interactive document or Interactive video tool you can upload documents or videos to which discussion topics, practice questions and comments can be added. This allows students to actively work with the content. There are also tools available that makes it easier to use the (peer) feedback process online. During the workshop we show the possibilities so that you can then make a well-considered choice for the specific teaching method that you want to apply in your education.
If you are unable to attend this session, we may be able to provide you with individual advice or support. Please contact Teaching Support. You can find all tips and sessions on distance learning here.
Date and time: Thursday 3 December, 11.00 - 12.45 uur
Working language: NL/EN
Lecturers are supported with the design and implemention of online education.
Do you want to know how to analyse a test in Remindo? What should you do if your test has been made badly, or if many students have made a question right or wrong? Does the test differentiate between good and less good students? How do you interpret the psychometric values (P, Cronbachs Alfa, Rit, Rir, Rat, Rar)? In this workshop we will deal with these questions.
Afterwards you can:
- Interpret a test analysis in Remindo
- Identify any problems with the test on the basis of the analysis
- Recognize and improve bad questions for next time
- Identify the pros and cons of:
- Deleting questions afterwards
- Adjusting the answer key
- adjusting the caesura
This workshop will be given by Mirne Cammen, Matthias van Veen, Ruben van RIel.
If you are unable to attend this session, we may be able to provide you with individual advice or support. Please contact Teaching Support. You can find all tips and sessions on distance learning here.
Date and time: Thursday 3 December, 15.00 - 16.30 hours
Working language: NL/EN
Sign up for the session on Digital Accessibility
Students think, read, watch and navigate through apps, websites and digital systems in 1000 different ways. But how do students with an auditory or visual impairment who cannot hear sound or see texts, images and videos do so? What if students have dyslexia, autism or another support question?
Digital accessibility can make the difference for students to be able to study or not. This is certainly true in this day and age, when more online lessons are being taught. Students should have access to teaching materials, but also to information on the website and blackboard. Everyone within the UU can do their bit to become more digitally accessible. How can they do so? This session, provided by Expertise Centre for Inclusive Education (ECIO), will address this issue. The topics discussed include what digital accessibility means, why and for whom it is so important, what legal frameworks apply, what you can do yourself and what steps you need to take to remain digitally accessible together.
The session takes place online, registration is possible until 23 November via this link.
Date and time: Monday 7 December, 12:15 - 12.45 uur
Working language: NL/EN
Lecturers are supported with the design and implemention of online education.
During the monthly OLA-lunch bites, we share research into educational innovations from UU and translate this into educational practice. Self-directed learning will be the subject in this session. Most students have learned little in their high school careers about how to direct their own learning. In this webinar, Dr. Steven Raaijmakers addresses the following question with you and the other participants: How can we support students in guiding their own learning process? Steven will give a brief overview of the scientific literature and then we will jointly look for ideas of what the support could look like in practice.
If you are unable to attend this session, we may be able to provide you with individual advice or support. Please contact Teaching Support. You can find all tips and sessions on distance learning here.
Date and time: Tuesday 8 December, 14.00 - 15.00 uur
Working language: NL/EN
Lecturers are supported with the design and implemention of online education. In this session we will answer your questions about assessment in times of Corona. Do you need practical and didactical tips regarding this subject, or are you curious about experiences of colleagues?
Educational advisors and test experts Frans Prins and Claudy Oomen explain how to make an alternative assessment plan, for the case you cannot assess on location nor can use online proctoring.
If you are unable to attend this session, we may be able to provide you with individual advice or support. Please contact Teaching Support. You can find all tips and sessions on distance learning here.
Date and time: Thursday 10 December, 09.30 - 11.00 uur
Working language: NL/EN
Are you faced with the challenge of giving a lecture in which both on-campus and remote students participate? Do you need practical tips or points of attention that you should take into account in such a hybrid educational situation? Or do you have questions about how to work with group assignments or discussions between students? During this webinar, the colleagues from Education Advice and Training and Educate-it will take you along in answering all these questions.
The hosts of this meeting will be Aleid de Jong and Sanne Schreurs.
Date and time: Thursday 10 December, 11.00 - 12.45 uur
Working language: NL/EN
Lecturers are supported with the design and implemention of online education. In this webinar you will become acquainted with the possibilities that Remindo offers to test with innovative question types and multimedia. On the basis of examples we will discuss the ins and outs of the various question types that Remindo offers. Afterwards, you will be able to make a well-considered choice for multimedia and innovative question types in Remindo.
If you are unable to attend this session, we may be able to provide you with individual advice or support. Please contact Teaching Support. You can find all tips and sessions on distance learning here.
Date and time: Thursday 10 December, 4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Working language: ENG
The Teaching & Learning Lab organizes an Inspiration Café every second Thursday of the month. Alternately, a story by a teacher, a student or an interesting educational tool will be presented. But above all, there is an opportunity to exchange ideas about education with colleagues.
Microsoft Teams, before March almost nobody used it, and now you simply can’t ignore it anymore. While some are already happy to have their microphone and camera working during a meeting, others are already working on all kinds of advanced features. The latter group also includes Sjors Overman, assistant professor at the USBO.
Sjors decided to share his experiences in the form of short videos that he shares via Microsoft Stream. In these videos he shares tips and tricks about break-out rooms, assignments in Teams, but also about the use of the dynamic teaching room.
Wondering how you can use Teams even better to reach your educational goals? Or just looking for that one golden tip to make Microsoft Teams work for you? Then I will see you on December 10th at 4 p.m.!
Do you have an inspiring story of your own that you would like to share during one of the upcoming Inspiration Cafés? Mail your idea/proposal to m.a.mangnus@uu.nl!
Curious about other webinars or meetings? Check out this link to see which other online sessions you can attend as a teacher.
Date and time: Monday 15 February, 11:30 - 12:30
Working language: NL/EN
In this webinar, we look at the design of an online lecture. How do you prepare students well? How do you make sure they have the right expectations and keep them engaged? Educationalists Jessica Hegeman and Maryse Leloup give advice and tips on how to design an online lecture. After this workshop, you will know how to:
- Adjust students' expectations
- Prepare them for what is to come
- Keep students engaged
If you are unable to attend this session, we may be able to provide you with individual advice or support. Please contact Teaching Support. You can find all tips and sessions on distance learning here.
Date and time: Thursday 18 February, 11.00 - 12.45 uur
Working language: NL (English if possible)
This workshop will offer some rules of thumb for composing a good exam and good (open or closed) exam questions. As an exercise, we will critically examine your past exam questions, looking for ways to improve them and learn how to write even better questions in future. We will also get our hands dirty: you’ll learn how to transfer your exam questions into Remindo and use them to compose an assessment. You’ll also learn how to re-use your questions in later assessments. By working this way, you will start to build a database of questions and answers that will benefit you for years to come.
You will be working on your own questions in the workshop. Bring one of your past (summative or formative) assessments with you! You will also need to bring your own laptop.
The deadline for signing up is the monday before the workshop
The workshop is usually conducted in Dutch. If you’d prefer to take it in English, please email dp.educate-it@uu.nl for a personal appointment.
Date and time: Thursday 18 February, 14.30 - 15.30 hours
Working language: NL/EN
Lecturers are supported with the design and implemention of online education. In this session we will answer your questions about assessment in times of Corona. Do you need practical and didactical tips regarding this subject, or are you curious about experiences of colleagues?
Sign up now for the Q&A about online assessment.
Educational advisors and experts Frans Prins (Educational Consultancy & Professional Development) and Matthias van Veen (Educate-it) are ready to provide you with didactic and practical information and answer your questions. Any questions that cannot be answered immediately will be taken on board and investigated for you. Depending on the language preference of the participants, the webinar will be held in English or Dutch.
If you are unable to attend this session, we may be able to provide you with individual advice or support. Please contact Teaching Support. You can find all tips and sessions on distance learning here.
Date and time: Tuesday 2 March, 10:00 - 10:30 hours
Working language: NL/EN
In this session, we will once again be talking to Sanne Frequin. Sanne is a member of the TAUU council and a lecturer at the Faculty of Humanities, and was the first lecturer to be a guest at our Q&A in March. How is her online teaching going? What did she learn during the lockdown? Based on questions from lecturers, Sanne shares her tips on online education in terms of organisation, technical aspects and keeping students involved.
Date and time: Thursday 4 March, 11:00 - 12:45 hours
Working language: NL/EN
Have you performed digital assessments with Remindo before? Would you like to analyse how that went? Then this is the
workshop for you. We will answer the following questions:
- What does analysis in Remindo look like?
- How do you interpret what it tells you (P, Rir, Rit, Cronbach’s alpha)?
- What do you do when your students perform very poorly on the assessment?
- How do you handle questions that either everyone gets or everyone misses?
- Can you remove questions? Accept ‘wrong’ multiple- choice answers?
- How do you evaluate the quality of your questions?
Date and time: Tuesday 9 March, 14.00 - 14.30
Working language: NL/EN
In this Q&A, we talk to Nelleke Veenema. As a lecturer in Veterinary Medicine, she received the Honours Teacher of the Year Award at the beginning of the academic year. Her students nominated her because she came up with creative solutions instead of following the usual methods. For example, she taught her students online how to operate on a pregnant cow. Do you want to know how Nelleke approached online education? Then come to this session!
If you are unable to attend this session, we may be able to provide you with individual advice or support. Please contact Teaching Support. You can find all tips and sessions on distance learning here.
Date and time: Thursday 11 March, 13.00 - 14.00 hours
Language: ENG
Teaching an international classroom online requires a methodological shift because it does not only affect teaching performance but also has an impact on the interaction with and among students. We will discuss the didactic implications for teaching online as well as for teaching an international classroom. In this session we will provide you with didactic tips and tricks for how to create a safe learning environment for your (online) students and for encouraging online interaction between Dutch and international students.
The session is hosted and presented by Gemma Corbalan Perez (Educational Consultancy and Training) and Aleid de Jong (Educate-it).
If you are unable to attend this session, we may be able to provide you with individual advice or support. Please contact Teaching Support. You can find all tips and sessions on distance learning here.
Date and time: Monday 15 March, 12.00 - 12.45 hours
Language: ENG/NL
You probably know it: you have given fantastic feedback as a teacher, but you see little of it in the subsequent documents. It seems as if your feedback has been sent straight to the feedback graveyard. Whether you use teacher feedback or peer feedback in your course, it is always the question whether the students really do something with the feedback. How can this be improved?
In this session, Renske de Kleijn (Education Centre UMC), Rianne Poot (Centre for Entrepreneurship) and Lindy Wijsman (Educational Advice and Training) take you on a crash course in Student Feedback Literacy. In 45 minutes, we will be discussing how you can help students to better deal with your and each other's feedback.
Put students at the feedback helm, by having them ask good feedback questions and by having them give feedback on what they did with the feedback. Do you want to know how the acronyms SUPER, POWER and CLOSER can help your students? And how you can promote sensemaking and deep learning through (peer) feedback?
Hosts: Renske de Kleijn, Rianne Poot and Lindy Wijsman
Date and time: Tuesday 16 March, 15.00 - 16.30 hours
Language: NL/ENG
Are you faced with the challenge of giving a lecture in which both on-campus and remote students participate? Do you need practical tips or points of attention that you should take into account in such a hybrid educational situation? Or do you have questions about how to work with group assignments or discussions between students? During this webinar, Sanne Schreurs from Education Advice and Training and Annet van der Riet from Educate-it will take you along in answering all these questions.
Afterwards you:
- Have more practical knowledge for providing hybrid education
- Can make an informed choice of teaching methods for your own hybrid educational situation
Datum en tijd: dinsdag 13 april, 11.00 - 12.00 uur
Voertaal: ENG/NL
Increasingly criticism has been expressed around the modular, summative assessment approach. It appears that students are learning for the test, showing superficial learning behavior. As an alternative, programmatic assessment offers a framework aiming to optimize the learning function of assessment. In this webinar, Marlies van Beek (O&T) and Lubberta de Jong (Educate-it) will introduce you to the underlying principles of programmatic assessment and provide you with practical examples of how these principles can be integrated.
Programmatic assessment focusses on the learning function of assessment, in combination with longitudinal monitoring of students. In programmatic assessment each assessment does not result in a pass/fail decision but provides meaningful feedback to the learner. As well as creating a longitudinal follow-up and fostering of self-directed learning, programmatic assessment offers a coherent assessment programme.
Interested in programmatic assessment? Take a look at the CAT Special Interest Group on this topic.
If you are unable to attend this session, we may be able to provide you with individual advice or support. Please contact Teaching Support. You can find all tips and sessions on distance learning here.
Date and time: Tuesday 13 April, 11.30 - 12.30 hours
Language: NL/ENG
In this webinar, you will learn everything about the newly released 'Video platform UU': a digital environment of Utrecht University where you can easily record, edit and share knowledge clips with your students. Experts from Educate-it and ITS will show you how the platform works, how to log in and what the different functionalities the platform offers.
If you are interested in more (didactical) information on how to create knowledge clips in the platform, you can sign up the webinar ‘Creating knowledge clips in the ‘Video platform UU’ on 15 April.
If you are unable to attend this session, we may be able to provide you with individual advice or support. Please contact Teaching Support. You can find all tips and sessions on distance learning here.
Hosts: Davitze Könning, Lana Hoekstra, Irma Mulder
Date and time: Thursday 15 April, 15.00 - 16.00 hours
Language: NL/ENG
In this webinar, you will learn what a good knowledge clip is and what the different options are to create a knowledge clip. Furthermore, we will discuss how you can effectively integrate a knowledge clip in your teaching practice. Special attention will be given to the new platform 'Video platform UU': a digital environment of Utrecht University where you can easily record, edit and share knowledge clips with your students.
This session will be hosted and presented by advisors from Educational Consultancy & Training and Educate-it.
If you would like to know more about the basics of the ‘Video platform UU’, for example how to log in or how the platform works, you can also sign up for the webinar ‘The new ‘Video platform UU’: a demonstration’ on the 13th of April.
If you are unable to attend this session, we may be able to provide you with individual advice or support. Please contact Teaching Support. You can find all tips and sessions on distance learning here.
Hosts: Elma Zijderveld, Liesbeth van de Grint, Aleid de Jong