Events

CELT and 4TU.CEE invite you for a lunch colloquium on 'Professional development for Higher Education teaching staff'. Dr. Monika Rummler (Centre for Scientific Continuing Education and Cooperation, TU Berlin) will present and discuss how TU Berlin is improving teaching and learning via continuing professional development of teaching staff.

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The second National Conference on Interdisciplinary Education (NIE) will take place on January 30, 2018, at Eindhoven University of Technology. During this conference teachers and researchers from universities in the Netherlands and Flanders will share their experiences, practices, expertise, and ideas on interdisciplinary education in the domain of higher education. The conference is hosted by 4TU.CEE. Tickets for the conference are available now.

Would you like to learn more about innovations in engineering education innovations at TU Eindhoven? And more specifically about Innovations in the context of the Innovation Space? Then visit the third (educational) Innovation Day at TU/e on Wednesday 31 January 2018. Goal of this day is to inspire teachers and support staff to improve or innovate our teaching practice. There will be ample time and opportunity to talk about education, educational innovations and to get acquainted with new tools and tricks. During the day several workshops about education will take place at the Innovation Space, such as student guidance in project education, feedback in education and adapting to change. After the first workshop round, the innovation market can be visited. At the innovation market, last year's TU/e innovation projects present their results and new projects present their plans for the upcoming year. A moment to share experiences and ideas to improve our education! 

The Teachers Day of WUR will take place on 12 December this year. The focus is on innovative university teaching and the experience of teachers involved in education innovation. An attractive programme has been composed with sessions on e.g. ‘diversity in the classroom’, ‘Peer review’ and ‘FeedbackFruits’. You will find the programme here. Note that the links in the programme only work for employees of WUR. Are you a lecturer from one of the other TU’s and would you like to have more information or participate in the Teachers Day, please contact Emiel van Puffelen, 4TU.CEE coordinator for WUR. You can also register directly.

More and more UT teachers experience the advantages of Team-based Learning (TBL). TBL is a versatile instructional strategy, in which students learn to work together in a team. On 28 November a session on TBL is organised at University of Twente. Subscribe now!

4TU.Centre for Engineering Education and Matthijs van Dijk of Reframing Studio will be giving a workshop titled ‘Composing the Engineer of the Future’, at the TU Delft Teaching Lab. Sign up now!

A University is involved in both fields: research and education, but how is the balance between these two? Is the one more important than the other or not? How do they reinforce each other? This year's Education Day is about the interplay between research and education. Keynotes and workshops focus either on research about education, education in research, research and education, research in education or other possible perspectives.

What do Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality have to offer to Education? Does it create new solutions to unsolved problems in learning environments? Find out in the 4TU.CEE onboarding day on ‘Using Virtual and Augmented Reality in education’ with key notes Pierre Dillenbourg and Max Louwerse and hands-on workshops.

Join the Teaching Trick workshop given by Kristina Edström!

Professional Identity begins to form when students start their academic study. Although addressing the Professional Identity Development (PID) of students can be very beneficial to students, it seldom is the explicit aim of educational programmes and courses. There is little empirical knowledge available to inform teachers, educational developers and programme directors on how to foster PID and on how to embed it in a course or an educational programme adequately. Against this background, Migchiel van Diggelen and Christina Morgan, studied how teacher coaching, aiming to foster students' professional identity development, was implemented in the departments of Industrial Design and Computer Science. The goal of the project was to gain insight into useful features for coaching models and to learn what good coaching entails.

There is a need for engineers who are not afraid to ask critical questions, who can work together well and look beyond the boundaries of their own field. This means students need to learn more about integrating and applying knowledge, methods and skills from different subject areas and multiple sources. 

On Monday 13 February, 4TU.CEE organises a workshop on Team Based Learning (TBL) in Twente. Teaching staff will learn how to motivate students to prepare for class and actively engage in acquiring and applying knowledge with fellow learners. The workshop will be given by Joy de Vries and Jacqueline Vos from the University of Amsterdam (UvA - AMC) who have been certified by Bradford University as TBL consultants and trainers. To register for this workshop, please send an email to Lisa Gommer: e.m.gommer@utwente.nl

Alexandru Iosup, Netherlands Teacher of the year 2015, will give a workshop on Gamification at TU/e on 3 February 2017. If you would like to know more about techniques to gamify your education and activate your students, this workshop is of interest to you!

Would you like to know how to use innovative adaptive questions for student assessment? Are you wondering how to apply educational innovations in your own courses? Find out in one of our workshops!