Knowledge dossier for Higher Education
What is ChatGPT capable of, and what are its limitations?
To understand what these consequences are (both positive and negative), it is useful to understand how ChatGPT works, what its abilities are, and what not.
The influence of ChatGPT on assessment
Can you still have students write essays? And what to do with take-home exams?
Multi-, inter-, and transdisciplinarity; what is what?
There are different forms of interdisciplinarity. Esther Slot discusses the differences between multidisciplinarity, interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity.
Facilitating collaborative learning in online education
Online contact by no means always leads to productive collaboration and to authentic and meaningful learning. How can you best facilitate this as a teacher?
Podcasts in your education, how to do it
Podcasts have been in use in education for some time. Why would you want this as a teacher, and what challenges might you encounter? Anouk den Hamer dove into the world of podcasts in education and made an overview.
Teach in English? Try these tips on using signposts and stimulating interaction in the classroom
For non-native speakers, teaching in English takes effort and skill. Marjolein Cremer explains how the use of signposts can be of help, and shares tips to stimulate interaction with students.
What is Community Engaged Learning?
Thea van Lankveld discusses the most important characteristics of Community Engaged Learning, the impact for students and teachers, and which potential issues are seen with CEL.
Do’s and don’ts in hybrid teaching
Ria Dolfing and Rouven Hagemeijer conducted a review study aimed at identifying both the benefits and drawbacks of the hybrid approach.
How do students learn the most from their own notes?
Many students take notes during a lecture or when reading. But is it actually useful?
Programmatic assessment in your own course
The popularity of programmatic assessment has increased significantly. How do you translate this concept to your own course?
Teaching in the international classroom is more than just translating materials
Where could teachers pay attention to in an international and diverse classroom? Gemma and Hetty share didactical tips for teachers.
Integrating multi-disciplinary insights by creating common ground
Integrating different disciplinary insights into a specific problem is a crucial but difficult step to take in interdisciplinary work. The process starts by creating common ground.
How do you teach students interdisciplinary thinking?
We are often asked: how do I teach my students interdisciplinary skills? In this article we describe three learning theory models.
Turn your (online) lecture into a learning experience
How can you seduce students to join you on an intellectual journey? Jessica Hegeman's tip: It all starts with a CISS.
Why is collaborating in interdisciplinary teams so difficult?
Collaborating in interdisciplinary teams is much harder than working with your disciplinary peers, as one student proclaimed: 'This is collaborating to the next level!'.
A four-stage model for interdisciplinary learning
Based on Repko’s model, we designed a four-stage model for learning interdisciplinary skills, which offers a framework for the design of interdisciplinary courses.
How do you assess interdisciplinary skills?
Assessing interdisciplinary skills can be difficult. That is why we have developed a rubric for assessing these skills regardless of the ‘product’ of the learning activity.
Online presentation
To retain the attention of your audience in an online presentation, you must consciously use the tools at hand. Your voice is the most important tool.
Hybrid education: how do you make it manageable (and maybe even fun)?
Hybrid teaching is not easy. Karin and Elma explain why it can be so difficult, and give tips on how you can make your hybrid education manageable.
Social contact and forming a remote community
When redesigning courses to an online format, it is important to also shape online social contact. How do you approach this, and why is it important?
Converting an existing course to an online course: where do you start?
Hanne ten Berge and Ineke Lam wrote a step-by-step plan and share tips such as 'start at the end' and 'Keep It Simple'.
Take-home and open book exams
Can take-home or open book exams replace your original exam? Marlies van Beek provides common definitions, as well as considerations and practical guidelines when designing these exams.
Preparing students for (online) assessment
How can teachers prepare their students for new online assessment methods?
Knowledge clips for activating online education
Knowledge clips can help with activating students and make your online lectures easier to understand and remember. In which ways can you use knowledge clips in your education?
An online lecture, do or don’t?
Hanne ten Berge discusses five functions of lectures.
Online exam reviews
How can you organise exam reviews online?
Getting to know each other (from a distance)
How can we organise making acquaintances in a new online course?
Giving a course meeting at distance
The power of asking the right questions
In this dossier our educational consultants share their knowledge about teaching in higher education, and in particular about distance education and online examination. If you would like further advice, please contact us.
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