Education
Grassroots en Grass shoots grants awarded to seven teams
The winners of the Grassroots and Grass Shoots 2023-2024 have been announced. Seven (teams of) lecturers and support staff have been awarded grants to innovate their teaching in the coming acadamic year.
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The seven projects are very diverse in nature: from practicing presentation skills in Virtual Reality to creating a faculty-wide Brightspace environment where faculty can experience what Brightspace really looks like for students. The two themes that recur frequently are peer feedback and (self-regulated) skill learning, both topics that fit well with the new in Vision on Blended Education.
Grassroots projects
- Carlijn Bergwerff (Education and Child Studies) - Greater insight into the practice through a video assignment and peer feedback
- Dietsje Jolles & Linda van Leijenhorst (Education and Child Studies) - Better knowledge clips through more guidance on collaboration and peer and audience feedback
- Rianne Weber en Tirza Smits (Education and Child Studies) - A Faculty-wide Brightspace environment for teachers
- Francesco Walker & Jop Groeneweg (Psychology) - Training presentation skills through Virtual Speech
Grass shoots projects
- Daisy Smeets & Lenny van Rosmalen (Education and Child Studies) - A new blended working form: the carousel method
- Zsuzsika Sjoerds & Sebo Uithol (Psychology) - Practising critical thinking with The Family Dinner
- Ineke van der Ham, Judith Schomaker & Monika Theron (Psychology) - Encountering dementia up close in Virtual Reality