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.
Below, you can find all of the (shorter) courses and workshops that you can follow at TLC Central. This might be interesting for you!
Interactive Oral Assessments as a Response to AI
In this workshop, we will examine when and how they can be useful. You will also experiment with simple design approaches.
Multi-day teacher training course Affective Learning
Jasper ter Schegget, Linda de Greef and Ilja Boor will take you on a four-day workshop journey in which we explore various aspects of affective teaching.
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?
LEGO Serious Play® workshop
You will build concepts, collaborations, processes and engage in a rich dialogue in search of a shared meaning. Are you ready to build your future?
Introduction to Embodied Learning
In this introductory course in Embodied Learning, we explore what embodied teaching and learning can entail and how it relates to traditional teaching.
Utilising ‘HOT moments’ as moments of learning
Learn how to facilitate heated discussions in the classroom.
Deep Democracy in your education practice
Use the principles of deep democracy to create better discussions and make better decisions.
GenAI in Assessment
Learn about the capacity of GenAI and how your unsupervised assessments are impacted.
Triggering motivation and autonomy in students
Learn how to trigger student motivation and autonomous learning behaviour.
Introduction to AI for teachers
Learn about the basics of how AI works, the benefits and consequences of its use and strategies to leverage and/or mitigate these.
Storytelling as a didactic tool
Unlock the power of storytelling in academia with this specialized course on Educational Storytelling.
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.