Inspiration Lunch Workshops (2026-2027)
Course schedule
| Dates | Start time | End time | Location | Coordinator | registrations app/max |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 October 2026 - How to make your lab practical more effective | 12:00 | 13:30 | Atlas | Office TLC | 5 / 20 | Registration ended at 10/10/2026 | |
| 22 October 2026 - Work session: script writing for knowledge clips | 12:00 | 13:30 | Campus | Office TLC | 0 / 15 | Apply | |
| 5 November 2026 - Teaching through art: Using art as a learning & teaching tool | 12:00 | 13:30 | Campus | Office TLC | 3 / 15 | Apply | |
| 12 November 2026 - Making a difference: Action-oriented teaching for hope and agency | 12:00 | 13:30 | Campus | Office TLC | 3 / 15 | Apply | |
| 17 November 2026 - H5P Game Map: A treasure hunt & E-Learning module | 12:00 | 13:30 | Campus | Office TLC | 1 / 30 | Apply | |
| 19 November 2026 - Presentation skills for video | 12:00 | 13:30 | Campus | Office TLC | 1 / 15 | Apply | |
| 23 November 2026 - Collaboration & nature-inclusive teaching methods | 12:00 | 13:30 | Campus | Office TLC | 2 / 20 | Apply | |
| 24 November 2026 - When reflecting is not enough. Making space for student agency | 12:00 | 13:30 | Campus | Office TLC | 3 / 15 | Apply | |
| 30 November 2026- What if? Radical imagination and futuring | 12:00 | 13:30 | Campus | Office TLC | 4 / 15 | Apply | |
| 15 December 2026 - Visuals for educational videos at WUR | 12:00 | 13:30 | Campus | Office TLC | 2 / 15 | Apply | |
| 21 January 2027 - Recording podcasts at WUR | 12:00 | 13:30 | Campus | Office TLC | 0 / 15 | Apply | |
| 26 January 2027 - Perspective making and taking & nature-inclusive teaching methods | 12:00 | 13:30 | Campus | Office TLC | 0 / 20 | Apply | |
| 23 February 2027 - Work session: script writing for knowledge clips | 12:00 | 13:30 | Campus | Office TLC | 0 / 15 | Apply | |
| 25 March 2027 - Recording educational videos at WUR | 12:00 | 13:30 | Campus | Office TLC | 0 / 15 | Apply | |
| 15 April 2027 - Reflection & nature-inclusive teaching methods | 12:00 | 13:30 | Campus | Office TLC | 1 / 20 | Apply | |
| 20 April 2027 - Presentation skills for video | 12:00 | 13:30 | Campus | Office TLC | 1 / 15 | Apply | |
| 27 May 2027 - Visuals for educational videos at WUR | 12:00 | 13:30 | Campus | Office TLC | 0 / 15 | Apply | |
| 15 June 2027 - Recording educational videos at WUR | 12:00 | 13:30 | Campus | Office TLC | 0 / 15 | Apply | |
| 15 June 2027 - Professional identity development & nature-inclusive teaching methods | 12:00 | 13:30 | Campus | Office TLC | 1 / 20 | Apply | |
| 8 July 2027 - Work session: script writing for knowledge clips | 12:00 | 13:30 | Campus | Office TLC | 0 / 15 | Apply |
Course description
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
How to make your lab practical more effective
Date: Thursday, 15 October 2026
Facilitators: Aranka van der Burgh, Marjolein de Rijk
Are you teaching a lab or field practical? Do you want to make your lab or field practical more effective, but don't know where to start? Or can you use some inspiration to get started? Then you are in the right place! Small adjustments can make a big difference.
During this workshop, you will discover the (sometimes) hidden steps in lab education. You will get tips that you can use to adjust your practical manual to support students to become researchers.
Work session: script writing for knowledge clips
Date: Thursday, 22 October 2026
Facilitators: Pim van Schöll, Senna Tamminga
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 2
Teaching through art: Using art as a learning & teaching tool
Date: Thursday, 5 November 2026
Facilitator: Elisabet Rasch, SIG Social Engagement and Emotions in Teaching
In this lunch meeting, we explore art and creative methods as ways of engaging with emotions when teaching difficult topics such as climate crisis, conflict, violence, and inequality. Art can validate emotions, offer different ways of expressing knowledge, and create student agency through making, interpreting, and reimagining. We will exchange teaching experiences and discuss practicalities, including assignments and assessment, while exploring how art-based teaching can challenge assumptions about traditional ways of examination and assessment.
Making a difference: Action-oriented teaching for hope and agency
Date: Thursday, 12 November 2026
Facilitator: Elisabet Rasch, SIG Social Engagement and Emotions in Teaching
In this lunch meeting, we explore teaching practices that invite students to move towards action. We will exchange experiences with courses where students develop and carry out actions in real-life settings, such as acts of resistance, collaborations with social justice activists, or interventions around sustainability. Such approaches can strengthen students’ agency and empowerment, while offering ways to respond to complex real-life problems and counter feelings of hopelessness and despair. We will discuss practicalities, assessment, challenges, and ethics of action-oriented teaching.
H5P Game Map: A treasure hunt & E-Learning module
Date: Tuesday, 17 November 2026
Facilitators: Marjolein de Rijk, Mina Atia, Jolanda Soeting
In this workshop you will explore H5P Game Map tool and how to use it to create gamefied learning activities.
You will do that by learning about Gamefied Design, 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.
Note: The treasure hunt includes a little bit of walking (15-30 minutes).
Presentation skills for video
Date: Thursday, 19 November 2026
Facilitators: Pim van Schöll, Dennis Anneveldt
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!
Collaboration & nature-inclusive teaching methods
Date: Monday, 23 November 2026
Facilitators: Ellen Torfs, Hubertie Kroon, Marca Gresnigt & Marieke van Schaik from the Teaching & Learning Centre
Want to explore nature-inclusive teaching methods?
Join our Inspiration Lunch Workshop Series, where we explore how nature-inclusive teaching can support students’ skill development. Each workshop focuses on a different skill 3rd approx WUR skills final_260703.pdf:
- 23 November 2026: Collaboration
- 26 January 2027: Perspective making and taking
- 15 April 2027: Reflection
- 15 June 2027: Professional identity development
During each session, you’ll experience practical exercises, explore benefits and challenges, and reflect on how you could apply them with your own students.
Come get inspired and discover how nature-inclusive education can offer new perspectives and experiences for both you and your students.
When reflecting is not enough. Making space for student agency
Date: Tuesday, 24 November 2026
Facilitator: Elisabet Rasch, SIG Social Engagement and Emotions in Teaching
In this lunch meeting, we explore how we can move beyond reflection as a way of engaging with emotions and responsibility in teaching, particularly when working with complex issues such as the climate crisis, inequality, and social injustice. Reflexivity can help students reflect on their own positions, privileges, limitations, and responsibilities, while developing a more realistic sense of what they can and cannot change. However, reflection can also leave students feeling overwhelmed or even paralyzed. How can we support students in moving beyond reflection and strengthen their sense of agency?
What if? Radical imagination and futuring
Date: Monday, 30 November 2026
Facilitator: Elisabet Rasch, SIG Social Engagement and Emotions in Teaching
In this lunch meeting, we explore futuring and radical imagination as ways of engaging with emotions in the classroom, particularly when teaching about uncertainty, crisis, and difficult futures. Imagining otherwise can help students engage with emotions while also opening up possibilities beyond the present. Through the exchange of experiences and examples, including cli-fi (climate fiction), museums of the Future, and worldbuilding, we will reflect on how futuring can create space for hope, agency, and new ways of imagining the future.
Visuals for educational videos at WUR
Date: Tuesday, 15 December 2026
Facilitators: Pim van Schöll, Sanne Smits
Discover WUR's video production facilities! In this hands-on workshop, you'll explore how to create stronger visuals for knowledge clips. You will learn how to capture your own photos and materials to use in the PowerPoint presentations for our studio. After a quick onboarding exercise, it's studio time. You'll go home with a short video and an urge to book a spot for a follow-up session! - Pim van Schöll, Instructional Designer at Education Media.
Period 3
Recording podcasts at WUR
Date: Thursday, 21 January 2027
Facilitators: Jesse van de Hulsbeek, Remco Hekker
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.
Perspective making and taking & nature-inclusive teaching methods
Date: Tuesday, 26 January 2027
Facilitators: Ellen Torfs, Hubertie Kroon, Marca Gresnigt & Marieke van Schaik from the Teaching & Learning Centre
Want to explore nature-inclusive teaching methods?
Join our Inspiration Lunch Workshop Series, where we explore how nature-inclusive teaching can support students’ skill development. Each workshop focuses on a different skill 3rd approx WUR skills final_260703.pdf:
- 23 November 2026: Collaboration
- 26 January 2027: Perspective making and taking
- 15 April 2027: Reflection
- 15 June 2027: Professional identity development
During each session, you’ll experience practical exercises, explore benefits and challenges, and reflect on how you could apply them with your own students.
Come get inspired and discover how nature-inclusive education can offer new perspectives and experiences for both you and your students.
Period 4
Work session: script writing for knowledge clips
Date: Tuesday, 23 February 2027
Facilitators: Jesse van de Hulsbeek, Sanne Smits
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
Recording educational videos at WUR
Date: Thursday, 25 March 2027
Facilitators: Pim van Schöll, Dennis Anneveldt
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!
Reflection & nature-inclusive teaching methods
Date: Thursday, 15 April 2027
Facilitators: Ellen Torfs, Hubertie Kroon, Marca Gresnigt & Marieke van Schaik from the Teaching & Learning Centre
Want to explore nature-inclusive teaching methods?
Join our Inspiration Lunch Workshop Series, where we explore how nature-inclusive teaching can support students’ skill development. Each workshop focuses on a different skill 3rd approx WUR skills final_260703.pdf:
- 23 November 2026: Collaboration
- 26 January 2027: Perspective making and taking
- 15 April 2027: Reflection
- 15 June 2027: Professional identity development
During each session, you’ll experience practical exercises, explore benefits and challenges, and reflect on how you could apply them with your own students.
Come get inspired and discover how nature-inclusive education can offer new perspectives and experiences for both you and your students.
Presentation skills for video
Date: Tuesday, 20 April 2027
Facilitators: Pim van Schöll, Senna Tamminga
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
Visuals for educational videos at WUR
Date: Thursday, 27 May 2027
Facilitators: Pim van Schöll, Remco Hekker
Discover WUR's video production facilities! In this hands-on workshop, you'll explore how to create stronger visuals for knowledge clips. You will learn how to capture your own photos and materials to use in the PowerPoint presentations for our studio. After a quick onboarding exercise, it's studio time. You'll go home with a short video and an urge to book a spot for a follow-up session! - Pim van Schöll, Instructional Designer at Education Media.
Recording educational videos at WUR
Date: Tuesday, 15 June 2027
Facilitators: Jesse van de Hulsbeek, Sanne Smits
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!
Professional identity development & nature-inclusive teaching methods
Date: Tuesday, 15 June 2027
Facilitators: Ellen Torfs, Hubertie Kroon, Marca Gresnigt & Marieke van Schaik from the Teaching & Learning Centre
Want to explore nature-inclusive teaching methods?
Join our Inspiration Lunch Workshop Series, where we explore how nature-inclusive teaching can support students’ skill development. Each workshop focuses on a different skill 3rd approx WUR skills final_260703.pdf:
- 23 November 2026: Collaboration
- 26 January 2027: Perspective making and taking
- 15 April 2027: Reflection
- 15 June 2027: Professional identity development
During each session, you’ll experience practical exercises, explore benefits and challenges, and reflect on how you could apply them with your own students.
Come get inspired and discover how nature-inclusive education can offer new perspectives and experiences for both you and your students.
Work session: script writing for knowledge clips
Date: Thursday, 8 July 2027
Facilitators: Jesse van de Hulsbeek, Senna Tamminga
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.