On Friday the 12th of November, we will host the yearly Teaching & Learning Lab Autumn Festival. This year with the theme: “Flexible learning: education of the future”. The conference will include a keynote speaker and several parallel-workshops in different rooms on the Utrecht Science Park. Fitting to our theme, most of the workshops will…

During the TLL inspiration drink online on April 7, 2021, Peter Pelzer, professor of human geography and spatial planning, talked about the Mixed Classroom project. In the Mixed Classroom, students and policymakers work together on projects around the concept of “futuring”: systematically thinking about and imagining the future. This course encourages students and policy makers…

How students and professionals learn from and with each other How do we prepare for a future which will be fundamentally different due to climate change and other major social transitions? In the Mixed Classroom of the Urban Futures Studio, students and policy staff investigate together how we imagine the future and how we can do…

We are currently working hard on preparations for the fifth edition of the interactive online Teaching & Learning Lab Autumn Festival 2020. The festival, aimed at secondary and higher education, will take place on Friday afternoon 27 November 2020. The main theme is ‘Education Everywhere’ and will be supported through the sub-themes Augmented / Virtual Reality (AVR) and…

Most of our educational activities will continue to be provided online, even after the summer holidays. The Master’s course Trends in Science Education & Communication is no exception. In June, lecturer Liesbeth de Bakker attended the ‘(Re)design your teaching in times of corona’ course, offered by Educational Consultancy & Professional Development  and Educate-it, to facilitate the…

Are you currently preparing for education for the academic year 2020-2021 and would you like to tinker with new teaching methods on campus? The Teaching & Learning Lab (TLL) recently started using two camera / sound bar systems that make it possible to teach students, some of whom are physically present and some online. After…

On Friday afternoon, November 27, the TLL organizes its annual Autumn Festival. The corona crisis has definitely put online secondary and higher education on the map. But how do we keep everyone – students/pupils and teachers – motivated? What are the lessons for both didactics and technique? Besides the classroom and computer screen, are there…

Since June 15, the studio of the Teaching & Learning Lab is open for teachers of Utrecht University who want to record clips. The studio focuses primarily on teachers from the Faculty of Science and for UU-teachers who want to use the transparent lightboard. Other UU-teachers can visit the studio at the Bolognalaan. In the…

Incremental grading: let students assess their own work. Though this might sound strange at first, incremental grading can have several advantages for both teachers and students. During the Inspiration café on May 14th, Alex Lodder & Christian Köppe spoke about incremental grading (IG), and their experiences based on the implementation of IG in two courses at Utrecht…

Would you like to know more about what online education is, how to design online education and what it can bring you – also after this period of the corona crisis? Then sign up for this free online course that not only covers the design of online education, but also the theoretical and didactic context…