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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E-learning for applied mathematics
Interview with Leo Dorst about e-learning for applied mathematics.
Voting in the classroom
Marthe Schut about using an online voting tool during the practice sessions of ‘Basic Mathematics in Psychobiology’.
Learning to Learn
Ilja Boor about animated explanation videos in themes around self-directed education are explained to first-year students.
Preparing for lab with a digital manual
Richard de Boer about LabBuddy, in which you can make a digital lab manual.
Interactive teaching for large groups
Erwin van Vliet about flipped-class pedagogy in combination with peer instruction via an online voting system during class.
eJournal
Robert van Wijk about eJournal; a tool which links with Canvas and provides an easy to manage graded journal system.
Green Chemistry
Chris Slootweg about the course Green Chemistry in which students learn to work in multidisciplinary teams and present and discuss all aspects of green chemistry from lab to market.
Jupyter Notebooks
Maarten Marx about providing students a secure and stable environment to make digital (coding) exams.
Explaining math in videos
Jaap de Jonge about short explainers for students, each of which about part of the content of a lecture
Keerpunten in de Natuurwetenschappen
Rebecca Sier about an inspiring introduction to some of the most important turning points in the natural sciences.
De Cel
Nina Scheres & Monique Quaedackers about creating a student centered learning environment.
Behavior-based Robotics
Arnoud Visser about the course Behavior-Based Robotics, which covers the usage of the behavior-based programming paradigm in robotics.