Special Interest Groups (SIGs) are interfaculty groups of teachers that work together on a specific theme. The SIG Self-Regulated Learning focuses on strengthening the ability of students and lecturers to consciously plan, monitor, and evaluate the learning process. This is a cyclical process. Self-regulation means not only directing individual learning, but also learning collaboratively and with the support of others. In this way, the SIG contributes to promoting effective and sustainable learning, both within and outside of programs.
Our mission is to create a thriving community of practice dedicated to identifying, sharing, and utilizing knowledge and tools that enhance self-regulation skills for both students and teachers at the University of Amsterdam.

Whether you’re a teacher, policymaker, educational expert, coordinator, director, or researcher: your perspective is valuable!
Do you want to work with others to increase students’ self-direction and responsibility? Are you interested in strengthening their self-regulation skills and those of teachers?
Then we warmly invite you to participate in the new Special Interest Group (SIG) on Self-Regulated Learning!
For more information and to apply for this SIG, please get in touch with coordinators Brigitte Ten Brink (B.E.H.tenBrink@uva.nl) or Sander Corssmit (s.w.corssmit@amsterdamumc.nl).
View the factsheets on self-regulated learning and motivation here (only in Dutch!), created by Principal Educators Sander Corssmit and Lida van der Merwe, in collaboration with the Teaching & Learning Centre of the UvA Faculty of Medicine.
Self-Regulated Learning Factsheet | Motivation and Self-Regulated Learning Factsheet
Brigitte ten Brink is a senior lecturer in Work and Organizational Psychology and coordinator of the Self-Regulation and Integrity learning track within the Psychology program at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). In addition, she is active within the NRO-funded research consortium SELFLEX, where she has, among other things, developed podcasts on self-regulated learning in higher education. Within TLC-FMG, she has organized various events to promote knowledge sharing and innovation around this theme.
Sander Corssmit has been a general practitioner for over 15 years and a lecturer at the Department of General Practice at Amsterdam UMC. Both in the consultation room and at the university, for example, as coordinator of the mentoring program of the Master’s in Medicine and as Principal Educator for Self-Regulated Learning. He enjoys helping people connect with themselves and with each other.

