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.

DIY hybrid lectures are BYO. You need to Bring Your Own laptop, camera, microphone, cables, support, coffee and time. If that sounds like a hassle, it’s because it’s a hassle.

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

The Catchbox is a wireless microphone in the shape of a soft cube, which you throw at each other. Prof. dr. Hilde Geurts and Dr. Vincent de Rooij share their experiences.

Do you spend hours and hours on feedback, feed up, and feedforward? Perhaps there are ways to save you some time.

Rather than making each topic fit neatly within one day’s class period, intentionally structure topics to end three-fourths of the way through the time, leaving one quarter of the time to start the next module/topic. This generates an automatic bridge between sessions and better meets learning science principles of the spacing effect and interleaving topics.

Show students an image with no explanation, and ask them to identify/explain it, and justify their answers. Or ask students to write about it using terms from lecture, or to name the processes and concepts shown. Also works well as group activity. Do not give the “answer” until they have explored all options first.

Milio van de Kamp, docent Interdisciplinaire Sociale Wetenschap is in 2022 verkozen tot FMG Docent van het Jaar. TLC-FMG interviewde Milio om zijn verhaal, doelen en ervaringen te horen. Milio vertelt zijn verhaal als eerstegeneratiestudent en zijn pad door het Nederlandse educatiesysteem heen. Hoe zet hij zijn ervaringen in als docent? Bekijk het hier in een interview met Milio.

Dr. Hillie Aaldering and Dr. Brigitte ten Brink researched the advantages and disadvantages on online education. In this article the upsides and downsides of online education will be treated.

Leer van de ervaring en expertise van dr. Jaap Schuitema over sociale interactie in het onderwijs.

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