Sometimes you hear or read about another perspective on a scientific problem, on a didactic approach, on a technical problem or on a political issue, of which you think ‘I’ve never looked at it like that before, but there’s something in it’. It makes you doubt. Do I have to make up another mind?
In this new section NT&L gives the floor to a teacher, a student, someone from the supporting staff, a program director, whoever, as long as the issue at hand touches on education (at the VU). All we ask is a surprising look, a different view, an eye opener.
Every month a different person will address an intriguing issue. Would you like to make a contribution? Please contact onderwijswerkplaats@vu.nl.
VU Education Agenda 2023-2028: “Focus on an innovative mindset”
The department of Student and Educational Affairs (SOZ) aims to ensure that successful studying, teaching and leisure is possible at the VU. We do this now with 11 departments, because by 1 May 2023, the VU Centre for Teaching and Learning, a merger of the already existing LEARN! Academy and the Education lab, also became […]
May 22, 2023
VU Education Agenda 2023-2028: “Focus on an innovative mindset”
The department of Student and Educational Affairs (SOZ) aims to ensure that successful studying, teaching and leisure is possible at the VU. We do this now with 11 departments, because by 1 May 2023, the VU Centre for Teaching and Learning, a merger of the already existing LEARN! Academy and the Education lab, also became […]
May 18, 2023
Improve the world, start doing something!
Last September, I started the SURF course Public Values. A subject to which the CIOs (ICT directors), directors of the university libraries and my colleagues in student and educational affairs from the educational institutions had been invited. Beforehand, I had determined for myself that it is part of my responsibilities to create a safe learning […]
February 24, 2023
Think about that: What are we good for?
On 17 November 2022 I attended the Knowledge Equity Network Summit (#KEN2022). Leeds University is taking this very seriously, that is take-away number one. Vice-Chancellor Simone Buitendijk and Deputy Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation Nick Plant had already taken their stand in a blog, video and a draft declaration. But in the opening speech […]
November 18, 2022
“Science should be truly cooperative, open and in responsible relationship with society”
Some notes I made of the book “Open Science: the Very Idea”, by Frank Miedema During the summer holiday I had planned to read Frank Miedema’s book on open science, and so I did, during some afternoons at the beach. During reading I made notes, and in this blog I highlight a few parts of […]
August 16, 2022