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.

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’.

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.

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.

Medical educators Franka Luk and Jaqueline Houting are seasoned ‘Grassrooters’. They talk about their exciting ICT applications and development experiences.

Through knowledge clips, teaching material is offered in an interactive way and the flipped classroom principle is applied.

How do you handle switching practicums in a face-to-face cursus to an online environment? Lecturer Tabitha Dreef shares her experience.

Geoanimations, a powerful interactive didactic online tool for Physical Geography. Gotze van Kalsbeek explains how geoanimations, supported by a Grassroots grant, have contributed to education.

Everything about Meeting Owls, BRIOs and weblectures.

A digital solution to the drawback of chalk-/whiteboards.