News
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How do you evaluate quality of teaching? 14 May 2024
What do we really know about educational quality and its measurement? This was the subject of the first Higher Education Knowledge Café.
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World Teachers Festival: a celebration of globally-minded educators 07 May 2024
On 21 March 2024, the ‘learners’ at Wolfert Bilingual in Rotterdam were not teenagers, but some 180 teachers and teacher educators from around the Net...
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Education through a cultural lens 06 May 2024
Teachers viewed multicultural classes with VR glasses and discussed that for the study 'Culturally responsive teaching in multicultural classes'.
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Bilingual and international education central to World Teachers Programme 22 April 2024
In this bilingual profile, you follow university teacher training with a special focus on language, culture and diversity in bilingual and internation...
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Interview with Markus Davidsen on his Comenius project 12 April 2024
Assistant professor Markus Davidsen has received the Comenius grant, with which he wishes to improve secondary education on religion. In this intervie...
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‘Stemmen van Afrika’ wins popularisation prize: 'Language is more than grammar' 19 March 2024
The Voices of Africa platform is ten years old and has just recently won the annual popularisation prize of the Netherlands Graduate School of Linguis...
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Escaping from a sarcophagus: students from the Living Education Lab minor create an educational tool 18 March 2024
How do students start asking more questions on a museum visit? Let them free an Egyptian princess from a sarcophagus! In the minor Living Education La...
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‘Language is part of your identity; we need to teach children this from an early age’ 04 March 2024
Language is omnipresent: when you talk, app or meet in Teams. Understanding how we communicate with one another and what communication does to us is e...
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Meet the professor: ‘Can my sister be prosecuted for stealing my eraser?’ 08 February 2024
On the university’s birthday, professors traditionally teach a class of 10 and 11-year-olds during Meet the Professor, and this year was no different....
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Helping students with micro-macro thinking in chemistry 21 November 2023
How do classroom demonstration experiments help students learn chemical reasoning? Marie-Jetta den Otter, PhD student at ICLON, researched this. She d...
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As many as a hundred ideas in minor Living Education Lab 14 November 2023
Students presented the prototypes of educational tools they made in the first ten weeks of the new minor Living Education Lab. We asked two students ...
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Why is higher education not making more use of Open Educational Resources? 15 September 2023
In higher education, Open Educational Resources (OER) are available for anyone to use, but they are not widely used. Marjon Baas, PhD student at ICLON...
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Increasing student participation in schools 01 September 2023
Young people have the right to be involved in decision-making on matters that affect them, including their education. Ben Smit, researcher at ICLON, s...
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Part-time work in schools: ‘Students get to see how great teaching really is’ 17 July 2023
Given the teacher shortage, secondary schools could use an extra pair of hands. Alfrink College in Zoetermeer is glad to have students from the univer...
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Four Comenius teaching awards for Leiden lecturers 27 June 2023
Two lecturers from Leiden University have received a Comenius teaching award of 100,000 euros as part of the Senior Fellows programme. And a further t...