Inspiration Lunch workshops (2025-2026)

The Inspiration Lunch Workshops are events organized for educational staff to get inspired in topics related to Technology Enhanced Learning, Blended Learning Design Approaches, Didactic Concepts, Diversity, and Inclusion. The workshops take place on campus from 12:00 – 13:30 on weekdays.

Period 1

Nature inclusive education

Date: Tuesday, 9 September 2025 | 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.

 

Recording educational videos at WUR  

Date: Tuesday, 23 September 2025 | 12:00 - 13:30hrs

Facilitator: Jesse van de Hulsbeek

Discover WUR's video production facilities! In this hands-on workshop, you'll first discover how the educational media team helps you make awesome learning 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 bit anxious? 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!  
 

Breaking silos: rooting transdisciplinary education at WUR

Date: Thursday, 25 September 2025 | 12:00 - 13:30hrs

Facilitators: Stijn Heukels, Valentina Tassone, Weiwei Liu, Anke Swanenberg

Discuss what can help breaking silos and embed transdisciplinary ways of thinking, being and doing in education and learning. Build collective insight on academic culture, educational design, and (inner) competences that can bring about a difference in transdisciplinary education and learning at WUR, in a Troika Consulting format. Experience or interest in transdisciplinary education and learning is the only requirement for joining. 

 

Organising and Teaching Outdoor Classes

Date: Thursday, 9 October 2025 | 12:00 - 13:30hrs

Facilitators: Casper Quist, Ellen Torfs

Join us for an excursion-style workshop with Casper Quist, coordinator of biodiversity field practicals.

Drawing on his extensive experience, Casper will share practical tips and insights on how to make outdoor teaching engaging and effective.

As we walk across campus, we’ll pause at different spots to explore questions such as:

• How can you prepare students for an outdoor class?
• What concerns might they have, and how can you address them?
• How do you choose the right location and plan the logistics?
• What additional things do you need to think about when teaching a large group?
• How do you deal with the unexpected?
• How can you structure your outdoor class for maximum learning?

This workshop is designed for teachers of excursions, field practicals, and nature-inclusive activities.

Come along with your questions and discover new ways to take learning outside the classroom!

Please bring your own lunch.

 

Period 2

Transformative learning and assessment 

Date: Tuesday, 28 October 2025 | 12:00 - 13:30hrs

Facilitator: Mieke Latijnhouwers

Learning that involves a shift in the way one perceives and understands the world around, asking them to rethink assumptions and beliefs, that is called transformative learning. Formative assessment is a powerful means to nurture, guide and empower students to make such changes. In this inspiration session you will explore how you can use this in your teaching practice.

 

Work session: script writing for knowledge clips 

Date: Thursday, 30 October 2025 | 12:00 - 13:30hrs

Facilitator: Pim van Schöll

Are you excited to create knowledge clips but worried it might take too much time? Get a head start in this work session! Educational and media experts will guide you towards a script with corresponding visuals on the topic you would like to address. Providing tools, tricks and shortcuts for both words and images, we’ll get you as close to the finish line as possible. 

 

H5P Game Map: A treasure hunt & E-Learning module

Date: Thursday, 13 November 2025 | 12:00 - 13:30hrs

Facilitators: Marjolein de Rijk, Mina Atia

In this workshop you will explore H5P Game Map tool. You will do that by participating in a treasure hunt and checking an E-learning module. Afterwards, we will guide you to create an H5P Game Map.

Curious? Join us to learn more about this tool.

Note: The treasure hunt includes a little bit of walking (15-30 minutes).

 

Presentation skills for video  

Date: Thursday, 20 November 2025 | 12:00 - 13:30hrs

Facilitator: Jesse van de Hulsbeek

Are you looking to create educational videos, and want to get the most out of your performance? In this session, we’ll give you actionable tips and time to practice. From body language to expression to finding your comfort zone, you’ll leave this workshop as a better presenter!  

 

Oral examination - how to do it well  

Date: Thursday, 4 December 2025 | 12:00 - 13:30hrs

Facilitator: Mieke Latijnhouwers

Digital and paper exams are widely used. But have you ever considered using oral examination? In this inspiration workshop we will explore when and how you could use oral examination, and share tips regarding design and implementation.

 

Recording educational videos at WUR  

Date: Tuesday, 16 December 2025 | 12:00 - 13:30hrs

Facilitator: Pim van Schöll

Discover WUR's video production facilities! In this hands-on workshop, you'll first discover how the educational media team helps you make awesome learning 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 bit anxious? 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!  

 

Period 3

Recording podcasts at WUR

Date: Thursday, 22 January 2026 | 12:00 - 13.30hrs

Facilitator: Jesse van de Hulsbeek

Discover WUR's podcast production facilities! In this hands-on workshop, you'll first discover how (not) to use podcasts in your education. Then, you'll find out how to format your podcasts to sound professional and purposeful. And after a little preparation, you'll put on your headphones, hear that sweet WUR intro jingle and channel your radio voice to record a mini-podcast with your colleagues.  

 

Formative assessment – how to design and implement it

Date: Thursday, 5 February 2026 | 12:00 - 13.30hrs

Facilitator: Mieke Latijnhouwers

If we want students to gradually take more responsibility during their studies, they need to understand where they stand, where they are going, and how to close the gap between these two. Assignments, tests and activities that are not graded, serve an important role in this. Such formative assessments can help students steer their learning process and provide teachers with information to guide their teaching in supportive ways. In this inspiration workshop you will explore how to design and implement effective and efficient formative assessments and how to make it practical and feasible for you as a teacher.

Period 4

Work session: script writing for knowledge clips 

Date: Tuesday, 24 February 2026 | 12:00 - 13:30hrs

Facilitator: Jesse van de Hulsbeek

Are you excited to create knowledge clips but worried it might take too much time? Get a head start in this work session! Educational and media experts will guide you towards a script with corresponding visuals on the topic you would like to address. Providing tools, tricks and shortcuts for both words and images, we’ll get you as close to the finish line as possible. 

 

Period 5

How to make feedback effective 

Date: Tuesday, 24 March 2026 | 12:00 - 13:30hrs

Facilitator: Marca Gresnigt

In this inspiration workshop we will provide a framework for effective feedback, share some examples and tips and discuss how the focus of feedback is shifting to the student taking an active role.

 

Recording educational videos at WUR  

Date: Thursday, 26 March 2026 | 12:00 - 13:30hrs

Facilitator: Pim van Schöll

Discover WUR's video production facilities! In this hands-on workshop, you'll first discover how the educational media team helps you make awesome learning 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 bit anxious? 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!  

 

Presentation skills for video  

Date: Tuesday, 21 April 2026 | 12:00 - 13:30hrs

Facilitator: Pim van Schöll

Are you looking to create educational videos, and want to get the most out of your performance? In this session, we’ll give you actionable tips and time to practice. From body language to expression to finding your comfort zone, you’ll leave this workshop as a better presenter!  

 

Period 6

Activating teaching methods

Date: Tuesday, 19 May 2026 | 12:00 - 13.30hrs

Facilitator: Marca Gresnigt

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

 

Recording podcasts at WUR

Date: Thursday, 28 May 2026 | 12:00 - 13.30hrs

Facilitator: Pim van Schöll

Discover WUR's podcast production facilities! In this hands-on workshop, you'll first discover how (not) to use podcasts in your education. Then, you'll find out how to format your podcasts to sound professional and purposeful. And after a little preparation, you'll put on your headphones, hear that sweet WUR intro jingle and channel your radio voice to record a mini-podcast with your colleagues.  

 

Recording educational videos at WUR  

Date: Tuesday, 16 June 2026 | 12:00 - 13:30hrs

Facilitator: Jesse van de Hulsbeek

Discover WUR's video production facilities! In this hands-on workshop, you'll first discover how the educational media team helps you make awesome learning 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 bit anxious? 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!  

 

Work session: script writing for knowledge clips 

Date: Thursday, 9 July 2026 | 12:00 - 13:30hrs

Facilitator: Jesse van de Hulsbeek

Are you excited to create knowledge clips but worried it might take too much time? Get a head start in this work session! Educational and media experts will guide you towards a script with corresponding visuals on the topic you would like to address. Providing tools, tricks and shortcuts for both words and images, we’ll get you as close to the finish line as possible.