Teacher Stories
Teacher Stories are inspiring stories by UvA teachers. These stories on various topics cover not only the teacher perspective, but also the student perspective. Expand your knowledge and get inspired by fellow teachers!
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Impact Learning in the Placemaking course: estafette for city makers
Rosanne van Wieringen (IIS, former FMG) is 1 of the researchfellows who investigated her own teaching practice with the aim of better understanding and improving it. Rosanne investigated what Impact Learning and transformative learning mean to Placemaking students.
Active learning applied with the UvA card set
How do you actively involve your students in your teaching? The network of Teaching & Learning Centres (TLC) developed a new support tool that can help with this: the UvA card set.
Visible Learning Trajectories Programme: Bachelor’s programme Psychology shares experiences
Last year, the bachelor’s programme in Psychology took part in the Visible Learning Trajectories Programme. Programme director Ingmar Visser shares their experiences.
Development of ‘World Food and Ecosystems’ course: three necessary skills for (big) data collection
Lies Jacobs (FNWI) used the TLC Didactic Innovation grant to focus on teaching students three skills needed for (big) data collection. She was awarded the grant in the 2021-2022 academic year to further develop the course ‘World Food and Ecosystems’. With the grant she focussed on teaching students three skills needed for (big) data collection: building self-confidence, essential coding skills and digital independence.
Best practices of knowledge sharing among students from diverse backgrounds
A search by Dr. Lela Mosemghvdlishvili with the UvA TLC Didactic Innovation grant. How can we train students from different backgrounds and majors to share their disciplinary knowledge in an accessible way? Dr. Lela Mosemghvdlishvili (they/them) used the grant to explore the best practices of knowledge sharing among students from different disciplinary and methodological backgrounds.
Future Societies Lab: addressing sustainability issues
Dr. Mendel Giezen developed the Future Societies Lab with the TLC-IIS Sustainability grant. A course in which students work on research questions on sustainability from society clients. A win-win for different parties for the benefit of societal sustainability transformations.
Kick-off Higher Education in Transition (HOT)
HOT is looking for innovation and creation in education and research and wants to allow more movement in this. The initiative wants to push the boundaries in higher education and enable ‘benign disruptions’.
AI and education at the UvA: a lecture and discussion with rector magnifcus Peter-Paul Verbeek
On June 8, 2023, the TLC hosted an event to discuss the role of AI within education at the UvA. The rector magnificus provided a lecture followed by an open discussion. Read more about the course of the event and the most important outcomes here.
How AI is being used for personalised feedback to students
On March 28th the kick-off was held in the Aula of the OCW project “A smarter academic year”, a new national project initiated by the Dutch Minister of Education, Robert Dijkgraaf.
Grassroots: playground for ICT applications that improve education
Medical educators Franka Luk and Jaqueline Houting are seasoned ‘Grassrooters’. They talk about their exciting ICT applications and development experiences.
UvA Lecturer of the Year 2020 René Smits talks about Connection: a special interdisciplinary lecture series
Increasing sensitivity to diversity
How do we design education that’s sensitive to the diverse perspectives of students?