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NEWS MARCH 2019

 

 

 

JOIN THE 2ND LEARNING SPACES TOUR AT WUR

Discover the added value of innovative learning spaces for education during the learning spaces tour! You will visit innovative learning spaces and gain insight in related ongoing innovative projects. We will focus on the added value of the innovative learning space for education. The first stop took place at the AMS Institute. On 12 March we will visit WUR.

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INTERIM TESTING IN BACHELOR COURSES: PRO’S AND CON’S

In 2012 interim testing was introduced for (almost) all bachelor courses at TU/e. These interim tests would provide early feedback to students about their academic progress and encourage them to engage with their learning at an early stage in each course. Whether this approach works well and how interim assessments can be implemented effectively is the topic of the PhD research of Bram Vaessen that is being carried out for 4TU.CEE. Read more…

 

 

 

 

WORKSHOP ‘CULTURALLY-APPROPRIATE AND EFFECTIVE FEEDBACK’

Enhance your skills in giving effective feedback in the international classroom in a one day workshop. All 4TU staff is welcome to join this event that will take place on 24 May at the University of Twente. Read more and sign up now.

 

 

 

 

FUTURE ENGINEERING SKILLS IN HONG KONG AND SHENZHEN

In the summer of 2018 a group of 15 honours programme students from TU Delft, together with Prof. Peter Wieringa (HPD Dean & Vice-Rector at TU Delft) spent eleven days in Hong Kong and Shenzhen to learn about the local engineering culture. The group identified several factors in which the Hong & Shenzhen area engineering culture differs from that in the Netherlands. Read more about their findings.

 

 

 

4TU.CEE BLOG: LEARNING SPACES TOUR TO AMS

End of January 2019, 4TU.CEE visited the Amsterdam Metropolitan Institute. 30 participants from the 4 Technical Universities in the Netherlands participated in this first stop of the 4TU learning spaces tour. 4TU.CEE programme coordinators Renate Klaassen (TUD) and Chris Rouwenhorst (UT) wrote a blog about the visit that also includes the presentations. Read more…

 

 

 

 

HOW TO GIVE EFFECTIVE FEEDBACK IN THE INTERNATIONAL CLASSROOM

On 14 December 2018, Marijke van Oppen and Angie Weinberger invited 4TU staff to explore how to give culturally-appropriate and effective feedback in an experiential workshop. In the workshop, participants practiced new methods for sharing feedback and how to apply them in an international classroom. Read more…

 

 

 

 

4TU.CEE STARTS LINKEDIN GROUPS

We have recently started two LinkedIn groups in which we would like to exchange knowledge and events on innovative engineering education. One group ‘4TU.CEE’ is more general in nature. The other group focuses on Learning Spaces and is called ‘4TU.CEE Learning Spaces’. You are most welcome to join these groups on LinkedIn.

 

 

 

 

 

TEACHING EXCELLENCE RECOGNITION

All four TU’s have decided on further recognition of teaching excellence. 4TU.CEE therefore engaged in two international studies by Ruth Graham. Besides the Teaching Cultures Survey, a ‘Roadmap for Change’study identified the next steps that should be

made after decision making. Read more…

 

 

 

SENIOR UNIVERSITY TEACHING QUALIFICATION CEREMONY AT UT

You are invited to join the Senior University Teaching Qualification Ceremony (SKO) at UT. It takes place on April 18th, 15.00-17.00 at the University of Twente. Participants of the programme will receive their certificate from Mirjam Bult, vice president of the executive board. Afterwards they will present their projects on a poster market. Read more...

 

 

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NEW PROJECTS TU/E INNOVATION FUND

As every year, new projects to innovate education at TU/e started in 2019 with support of the TU/e innovation fund. This year’s themes were ‘Hands on and digital education’, and projects that gear towards the ‘TU/e education vision 2030’. The projects this year are very ambitious! Read more…

 

 

 

 

AGENDA 4TU.CEE

 

-12 March ’19: Learning Spaces Tour @ WUR

-21 & 22 March ’19: training ‘teaching in the international classroom’ (WUR)

-18 April ’19: Senior university teaching qualification ceremony (UT)

-24 May ’19: Workshop ‘Culturally appropriate and effective feedback’ (UT)

 

 

 

 

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