Courses & Workshops (2025-2026)
As a lecturer at the UvA, you can follow various courses and workshops at TLC Central. Within each faculty, TLC offers courses and workshops specifically aimed at lecturers of that faculty.
Here you can find all the courses and workshops available at TLC Central. Do you need training that isn’t listed here? Please contact us, as we also offer tailored training.
Contemplative Pedagogy
How to introduce slow-paced, introspective, and intersubjective learning activities into university education.
AI Data & API
Learn how to use UvA AI Chat to work safely with your own documents and datasets, and why popular external tools are often not suitable for sensitive or institutional data.
Introduction to AI for teachers
Learn about the basics of how AI works, insights into how some students use it, and the impact of considering vs not considering AI use in an educational context.
Students in AI‑Rich Learning Environments - Profiles, Practices, and Needs
Do we really understand students’ learning journeys in an AI-rich learning environment?
Designing Learning Outcomes in the Age of AI
In this hands‑on workshop, you will take a fresh look at your own learning outcomes and explore how generative AI affects what you ask students to know and do.
Make your own Chatbot 1 - Beginners
Work step by step towards creating your first own chatbot (persona).
Working with differences - holding space for difficult conversations
When teaching controversial or sensitive topics teachers need to bring themselves into the room and work with the differences that emerge.
Safeguarding assessment quality for Examinations Boards
In this workshop for new Examinations Board and/or Assessment Committee members, you will learn about assessment quality standards and how to safeguard these in practice.
Triggering motivation and autonomy in students
Learn how to trigger student motivation and autonomous learning behaviour.
GenAI and Assessment 2 -Designing Better Assessments
Experiment with AI‑resilient assessment designs that focus on what really matters.
Make your own Chatbot 2 - Intermediate
Learn how to further develop, test, and prepare an existing chatbot for use by others.
Gamification workshop
In this gamification workshop you will explore the use of games in your education. You will participate in games and experience yourself how to engage students with your learning material in a fun and inspiring way. Are you ready to level up?