Help creating the future of teaching & learning on November 22nd. Education offered by universities is in transition: from campus learning to online and blended education, from one-size fits all to tailormade education and from lecturing to tutoring. These trends offer myriads of options and that is why we need you. For a full day,…

Do you always use a schoolboard to explain everything to your students, and do you always fill up the board with explanations? Do your students often ask you to ‘explain it one more time’, even though you had already clearly explained something? Then make a knowledge clip with the Lightboard To Go! With the Lightboard To…

The Autumn Festival will take place on Friday, November 22, 2019, on the Utrecht University campus. Casper Hulshof, educational scientist at the UU and known from the book “Juffen zijn toffer dan meesters” [‘female teachers are cooler than male ones’] will open the day with his vision on education and the use of technology. Subsequently,…

Last year, numerous activities were held within the TLL, from activating education for students and pupils to festivals, education workshops and escape rooms. Researchers know to use the TLL for observing their teaching sessions. In the studio, making Lightboard recordings was again a favorite with teachers. Read more in the TLL Activity Report 2018.  …

For everyone involved in improving secondary and higher education: put the TLL Autumn Festival 2019 in your agenda. The Autumn Festival will take place on Friday afternoon, November 22, 2019, on the campus of Utrecht University. More information about the program will be announced later in the spring. Do you want to be kept informed?…

Worldwide, scientists in many disciplines are investigating the pattern underlying success, in the expectation to be able to learn from it. On February 14, Christian Köppe, computer science teacher and researcher at Utrecht University, showed in the TLL inspiration café how patterns can be used to learn from educational practices. The idea originated in architecture,…

To get teachers excited about enhancing their teaching, Educate-it will be organising monthly themes for University Utrecht teachers. March is the month of the (Peer) Feedback. Feedback is an important part of the educational process. It shows students where they are in the learning process and what they need to improve. Teachers interested in learning…

Friday afternoon November 30 well over 200 teachers, students, secondary school pupils, and representatives of business and educational institutions took part in the third Autumn Festival of the Teaching & Learning Lab. Flocking together in the hall of the Koningsberger Building they listened as Isabel Arends, Dean of the Faculty of Science and Judith Tielen,…

On 24 October, the YouTube channel by Ralph Meulenbroeks reached the magic number of one million views. In his videos, the Associate Professor from Utrecht University explains complicated principles of physics so that anyone can understand them. The target group is secondary school physics students, and the channel has proven to be extremely popular among them. “Vlak…

Experience how to effectively integrate knowledge clips in your education. Try to escape from an educational escape room, or learn how to deploy digital tools such as scalable learning and peer-feedback in the classroom. This is a sampling of the Festival of the Teaching & Learning Lab, scheduled on Friday afternoon for teachers, lecturers, students…