EduTalks

The Vision describes Challenge Based and Blended Learning as key aspects: but what are teachers' experiences with them? Both teachers of the year Anne Leferink and Pieter Roos reflect on their experience in their teaching fellowships with Challenge Based Learning and Digitalisation of Education during this episode.Want to know more about the vision on Learning & Teaching? Check out the special webpage here.Teachers’ and students’ perceptions of a sense of community in blended education — University of Twente Research Information (utwente.nl) Challenge-based Learning in Courses: The Implementation Continuum — University of Twente Research Information (utwente.nl)

In this episode, recorded live with audience, we have a playful back and forth on the content of the Vision on Learning & Teaching. The writers: Tom Veldkamp (Rector Magnificus UT), Ciano Aydin (Vice-Dean BMS) and Lieke Schreel (Director CES) discuss the various elements of this Vision, together with questions from various audience members.Read the vision here: https://www.utwente.nl/en/service-portal/organisation-regulations-and-codes-of-conduct/vision-on-learning-and-teaching 

In this first episode of the special subseries 'The Visionary Sessions' Robin van Emmerloot and Tessa van Leeuwen talk to one of the writers of the Vision on Learning & Teaching, Lieke Schreel. They reflect on the need of a vision and the higher management day of the Vision on Learning & Teaching.Want to know more about the vision on Learning & Teaching? Check out the special webpage here.

“Self-regulated learning cannot be taught self-regulated.” A classic wisdom in education: but how do we prepare our students then for student-driven learning? What’s the balance between student-driven and teacher-dependent learning? Alieke van Dijk, assistant professor at the BMS faculty, shares her findings from her research and her senior teaching qualification trajectory on this topic.

In this episode, we discuss the role of AI in education with ChatGPT itself, a large language model trained by OpenAI. They explore the benefits and limitations of AI in education, its impact on students and educators, and offer advice for those looking to incorporate AI into their teaching practices.The interview was scripted beforehand with ChatGPT, with the Google Cloud Text to Speech Synthesis in the podcast.

We’ve survived a pandemic, tried out all sorts of educational innovation, but what’s next? And just as important: how do we do it together? Together with Nelly Litvak, UT's teacher of the year 2022, we try and take a look to the future and discuss both the ways of teaching and working for our changing society. In the episode we discuss the book “Empathic Entrepreneurial Engineering” by David Fernandez Rivas, a colleague at the faculty TNW.

Inspiring students to use their technical skills to impact society: how do you stimulate entrepreneurship in education? Rainer Harms and Kasia Zalewska do exactly this in programmes like the BSc. Creative Technology, and share some best practices.

Assessing material by rubrics and marking can be a very intensive job, but there's an alternative: comparative judgement. In this episode, we talk with Marieke van Geel & Priyanka Pereira of the BMS ELAN group within the UT to see how comparative judgement and the tool Comproved work.

The acceleration plan, aimed to help digitalise our education, is finishing off this year. What’s next? In this episode of EduTalks we talk to Prof. Dr. Kim Schildkamp to find out.Kim Schildkamp chairs the teacher professionalization zone of the acceleration plan. The acceleration plan started in 2019 to help every lecturer and institution in a much-needed digitalisation sprint.

There’s more to games than just entertainment: that’s where serious games step in and can be used to educate. In this episode of Edutalks we talk to Frederik Vos and Vincent Delke, who implemented the use of the SuPlay serious game in the Business Administration programmes.