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Focus on extended essays: Leiden University’s Academic Challenge 07 June 2019
For most school students, writing their extended essay (or profielwerkstuk) is the first time they really come into contact with what it means to do r...
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Two major teaching grants for Leiden lecturers 23 April 2019
Studying with an app and exploratory learning in large groups. Two educational innovations that will be possible thanks to the Comenius Programme of t...
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‘Students describe my module as an emotional rollercoaster’ 17 April 2019
Thanks to Ian Cook’s ‘Who Made My Clothes?’ MOOC, thousands of students have researched where their clothes come from. How does this geographer from t...
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New insights to support teachers and pupils 27 November 2018
Good education is the basis for a fair and sustainable society. To maintain a high level of education, teachers, pupils, lecturers and students need n...
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Creating and celebrating excellent Extended Essays: launching Leiden University’s Academic Challenge 12 November 2018
The ‘Wetenschapscongres for vwo’ gets an Anglophone edition: 'Leiden University’s Academic Challenge’.
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Status holders are preparing for teacher training 04 December 2017
In November 2017, six status holders attended an introduction training course on Dutch education at ICLON.
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Twentieth anniversary of the Lorentz Center: developing ideas in a scientific bubble 27 June 2017
The 20th anniversary of the Lorentz Center will be celebrated on 28 June 2017 with the opening of an exhibition in the Oude UB. For two decades alread...
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Cognitive tool for the swamp 13 June 2017
Fred Janssen is curious about how best to teach students and students to gain a good understanding of complex ‘swamp situations’. This is the subject ...
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Blended learning activates students 20 April 2017
Recently, the booklet 'Blended Learning, het versterken van het onderwijs op de Universiteit Leiden' has been launched. Sonja Wagenaar, educational ad...
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88 graduate teachers 04 April 2017
On March 31, 2017, graduates of the teacher education programme received their diploma.
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Sitting room as oasis for refugee students 06 October 2016
A large table with tablecloth, a sitting area with soft lighting. A new meeting place in Plexus for students from a migrant background, opened on 6 Oc...
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'MOOCs are maturing' 24 March 2016
At a meeting in The Hague from 20 to 22 March, lecturers, university administrators and online teaching specialists made plans for better teaching usi...
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Astronaut André Kuipers touches down at Leiden University 22 January 2016
In his guest lecture on 22 January André Kuipers took school pupils and students on trip through space. His mission was to interest his young listener...
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No more sleeping in lectures 24 November 2015
How do you keep students’ attention when you have to compete with digital distractions like Facebook? What skills do you need in today’s rapidly chang...
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Co-operation with China 06 April 2011
A delegation from Leiden University, headed by the Rector Magnificus Professor Paul van der Heijden, is currently in Xiamen, in South-East China, to c...