Inspiration Lunch workshops (2024-2025)

Period 5

Education Coordination at WUR (iii)

Date:  Thursday, 3 April 2025 | 12:00 - 13:30

Facilitators: Harmke Schellekens, Joost Baars & Jana Verboom

Welcome to our third meeting about education coordination at WUR. Our 2024 survey among 53 education coordinators revealed a strong need for greater oversight, clearer role definitions, and a supportive community for sharing knowledge and experience. While each chair group structures the role differently, coordinators often find themselves reinventing the wheel—when there’s so much we can learn from one another!

To strengthen our community, we’re excited to take the next step and invite you to a lunch workshop. The agenda includes a brief recap of our survey findings, followed by an interactive session where you can share reflections and help shape the next steps.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Period 6

Using psychometrics (in Ans) to improve exam quality

Date: Tuesday, 13 May |12:00 - 13:30

Facilitator: Jolanda Soeting

After taking the exam, the answer pattern of students is a big source of information on the quality of your exam and questions. A psychometrical analysisgives you insight in this. In Ans this is automatically available and for a paper exam we have a tool to do the analysis. In this lunch workshop you can learn more on how to find and interpret this information.

 

Activating teaching methods

Date: Tuesday, 20 May |12:15 - 13:30

Facilitator: Marca Gresnigt

In this workshop you will become acquainted with > 10 activating teaching methods to facilitate formative learning experiences. Most of the examples canalso be used as Classroom Assessment Techniques. Don’t sit back and relax, prepare to be activated!

 

Recording educational videos @ WUR

Date: Tuesday, 27 May |12:00 - 13:30

Facilitators: Jesse van de Hulsbeek en Pim van Scholl

Discover WUR's video production facilities! In this hands-on workshop, you'll first discover how the educational media team helps you make awesomelearning materials. Then, you'll explore the ins and outs of effective educational videos. And after a quick onboarding exercise, it's studio time. Feeling a bitanxious? Your studio operator will be there for you with coffee, a snack and some actionable presentation tips. You'll go home with a short video and an urge to book a spot for a follow-up session!

How to make the MSc Thesis Progress Evaluation work

Date: Thursday, 5 June |12:00 - 13:30

Facilitator: Marieke van Schaik

During this workshop we briefly address ins & outs related to the MSc Thesis Progress Evaluation. We share the why, what, when and go over some handytools that might work for you and your students. Additionally, you work on a hands-on design for your own practice.

Designing transdisciplinary learning via the transdisciplinary canvas

Date: Tuesday, 10 June |12:00 - 13:30

Facilitators: Cristiano Bartolini, Jelle de Swart & Anke Swanenberg

Transdisciplinarity is hot 'n happening at WUR as it entails bridging gaps between society and university, which is a prominent part of the WUR educational vision. Transdisciplinarity means students learning from different perspectives of a range of stakeholders in projects on societal issues. We believe that transdisciplinarity is part of the key to educating the responsible change makers the vision talks about. 

In this inspirational lunchworkhop we will introduce one of the tools of the transdisciplinary learning trajectory: the transdisciplinarity canvas. The canvas invites the participants to think about implementation of transdisciplinarity, and provides a comprehesive overview of all considerations and tensions involved. We think this is an invaluable tool for transdisciplinary educational design, hopefully you'll find it helpful for designing your transdisciplinary course!

 

Nature inclusive education

Date: Tuesday, 24 June |12:00 - 13:30

Facilitator: Marca Gresnigt

This lunchworkshop will be held outside! We will meet at the bottom of the entrance bridge of Atlas and for the next hour and a half you will experience easy to implement outdoor, embodied methods for nature-inclusive teaching and reflect on their value and potential for learning. We will also shortly introduce the teacher trainings and other living lab activities on nature inclusive education. Please bring your own lunch!

Do you want to know more about nature inclusive education? You can read the one pager What is nature inclusive education.