Educational Design and Advice

Course (re)design

New courses are being created all the time at the university to meet the needs of programmes. Courses routinely evolve based on new research, student feedback, and innovative teaching practices. The educational consultants from the Centre for Teaching and Learning can support this process from the foundations of course (re)design, including reviewing the constructive alignment of your course: do the learning outcomes, teaching strategies, and assessment align with one another? In consultation or workshops with an educational consultant, individual teachers or teaching teams can explore different methods of course delivery, structure, formative and summative assessment, student support, and active learning.

For more information reach out to your faculty’s Embedded Expert or the CTL. 

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Email address: ctl rug.nl

Curriculum (re)design

Curriculum (re)design is the foundation of teaching across the university. There are many reasons for a curriculum (re)design, such as seeking to enrich educational pathways on specific programmes, planning for or responding to an Educational Inspection (accreditation), or developing new interdisciplinary teaching with other programmes of the university. 

If you as a program director or coordinator of a learning line want to (re)design (part of) the curriculum, the CTL can help to support curriculum development, renewal, or redesign, with or without IT, in many ways, including project support, consultations sessions, or workshops. The CTL has expertise in the creation of programme learning outcomes, student trajectories and skills development, balancing core and elective modules, and more.

Additionally, with any curriculum (re)design the choice of suitable assessment methods is essential. The CTL has experts in assessment who can support in making sure the methods chosen are of the highest possible quality and appropriate to the programme learning outcomes. 

You can reach out to the CTL or your faculty’s Embedded Expert for more information.

For more practical digital exam support and analysis, please contact ESI's Assessment Support team.

Contact

Email address: ctl rug.nl

Assessment (re)design and advice

Assessment is the process of evaluating and providing feedback on knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviours of students in relation to the learning outcomes of their courses and study programmes, both during and at the end of said courses/study programs. The assessment consultants can support teachers, teams, coordinators and directors of education in reflecting on and (further) developing the assessment of their courses, learning tracks and study programmes. Examples of topics that could be addressed in consultation or custom-made workshops: (re)designing assessment, formative/continuous assessment, developing assessment programmes, writing faculty assessment plans or effect of AI on assessment.

For more information reach out to the CTL or your faculty’s Embedded Expert. 

For more practical digital exam support and analysis, please contact ESI's Assessment Support team.

Contact

Email address: ctl rug.nl

Innovative use of Digital tools for teaching and learning

At the University of Groningen we have several digital tools available that enhance teaching and/or learning. The CTL has experience in how to effectively use and evaluate those digital tools. These are the current tools that are widely used at the UG: FeedbackFruits, Traintool, Kaltura PollEverywhere, SOWISO and Perusall. If you as a teacher would like to work with these tools, or have questions about possible use of other digital tools, please consult us.

You can find more detailed information at EDU Support on all the digital tools available. Many of the tools are available directly via the digital learning environment, Brightspace. We can also advise and assist you in using Brightspace in your courses to the fullest extent, whether in combination with the other digital tools, or without.

Contact

Email address: ctl rug.nl

Educational video design and production support 

Creating effective educational videos is not always easy to do and can be a source of insecurity for lecturers. Although a lot of information on how to use and create video for education can be found on EDU Support, you as a teacher may feel the need for support in writing / reviewing storyboards, finding AV support (inside or outside the university), directing and coaching during video productions and reviewing video content. We organize workshops on storyboard writing to help you write materials yourself. We can also help you visualise videos so that the message will come across more effectively.

Want to get started right away? Please find the relevant support information at EDU Support. 

For more information reach out to your Faculty’s Embedded Expert or the CTL. 

Contact

Email address: ctl rug.nl

Embedded experts

Embedded educational experts (or in short Embedded Experts) are pedagogical advisors of the CTL who work for teachers at a designated faculty. The experts have a broad expertise. They are available for one-on-one consultations on education-related questions teachers might have. If they cannot answer questions directly, they will know where to find the right expertise within the CTL. 

Contact

Please see EDU Support to get in touch with the Embedded Expert for your faculty or email us via ctl rug.nl.