Challenge Based Learning (CBL) is an educational framework, that gives students the opportunity to work on a real societal challenge in an interdisciplinary team. This course is created in order to introduce to you CBL, what it stands for, which are its main characteristics and frameworks, and how these can be applied in educational programs.

You will become acquainted with the concept of blended learning, its potential and what it can mean for you as a teacher. You reflect on the objectives of your education and get started with the (re)design. During the design process you determine what will be discussed during the face-to-face education, what you can offer online and which tools you could use. You will receive feedback on your design and receive useful tips for its implementation.

This training is about what online education is and how you can design your own online education. According to a number of steps, you will learn how to develop online education. Online education and online teaching are very different from the usual on-campus teaching. For this reason, this training course also specifically addresses online didactics and points for attention when teaching online. The training covers various applications of online education, with more extensive attention being paid to one application: Virtual Exchange. This is an application that the UU intends to further develop and deploy in the coming years, in collaboration with a number of European universities.

The purpose of this online training course is to support you in writing a project plan to: A) obtain insight into a problem that you may be experiencing in your own curriculum, or B) solve that problem. In a step-by-step fashion, you will be invited to take a close look at your own curriculum and to think about: your desired outcomes, the learning activity (or activities) you could use, the learning processes that play a role, the question you would like to answer, and the data you need to collect to answer it. Specialist educational or scientific literature will help you to better understand your teaching methods and how your students learn, and can be used to support your project plan.

In collaboration with the Centre for Entrepreneurship a new online training is developed. This training provides information about entrepreneurship education. How can you implement this in your own courses and how do you stimulate the entrepreneurial skills of your students?

This module deals with the do's and don'ts of making knowledge clips for your education. Knowledge clips are short video presentations of no more than 10 minutes, focused on one subject or concept. They can also be animated videos. In this module, we discuss what knowledge clips are, what the didactic value of knowledge clips is, how you can use knowledge clips in your teaching, what you need to pay attention to when you start working with knowledge clips and which options Utrecht University offers to make knowledge clips yourself (or have them made).

Online training course on (Peer) Feedback

In this online training course, you will become familiar with the characteristics of effective feedback, the different forms of feedback, the benefits and drawbacks of peer feedback, areas of concern in (peer)feedback in online education, and how you can integrate feedback into your curriculum. A handy checklist will help you determine how to utilise feedback effectively in your own teaching practice.

The art of good feedback during clinical placements

The course ‘The Art of Good Feedback’ has been developed for the UMCU and offers you, as a clinical placement supervisor, the opportunity to professionalise your teaching practice by giving good and effective feedback, which will help your intern develop faster.
During the first section, you will learn how to optimise your feedback. In the second section, you will learn how you can motivate your students and recognise when they would like to receive feedback.

In this online training course, you will use the testing cycle to learn how to design and construct a test and test questions, how to administer a test, and how to evaluate and analyse it. The issues dealt with in the course include: key questions when designing a test, the test matrix, different forms of assignments, closed and open questions, evaluation methods, pass/fail standards, and test analysis concepts. You can use your own material to get started right away.

This online training course was designed especially for student assistants who would like to contribute to new opportunities in education, and would like to know more about blended learning. You can choose from a variety of topics offered:
– Developing education: brainstorming about the organisation of the course and preparing online- and face-to-face activities.
– Teaching: ins & outs of online- and face-to-face teaching methods and interaction with students.
– Feedback & testing: the opportunities to give digital feedback and use peer feedback.
– Tools: practical information about a variety of tools (apps, programs, or resources) that you can use in your education.