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Inspiring Education Festival brings together students and lecturers 14 May 2019
How small steps can lead to big change: that was the theme of the Leiden Education Festival. Students and lecturers came to Scheltema on 9 May to shar...
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Teaching innovation: Training students to give LU talks 02 May 2019
Lights out, spotlight on, the LU talks begin. In the small Imperium Theatre, next to the Leidse Schouwburg, students take turns walking up to the roun...
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‘Students describe my module as an emotional rollercoaster’ 17 April 2019
Thanks to Ian Cook’s ‘Who Made My Clothes?’ MOOC, thousands of students have researched where their clothes come from. How does this geographer from t...
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Learning with the City: students to tackle challenges facing Leiden 16 April 2019
Why do we give students fictional assignments when there is a multitude of real-world problems just waiting to be solved? Leiden University, Leiden Un...
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How degree programmes prepare students better for the labour market 29 January 2019
From ‘challenges’ at ministries to reflection sessions where students coach each other. Students, study advisers and other employees shared their best...
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Online education in the lecture hall 28 January 2019
Everything around us is in motion. Students, the University, technology, society, the labour market and the world. These developments provide an impet...
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Virtual Exchange 18 December 2018
Leiden University offers students the opportunity to follow online courses that award study credits, thus avoiding the necessity of travelling abroad.
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Senior Teaching Qualification for first ten lecturers 15 October 2018
The Senior Teaching Qualification is for experienced lecturers who have done more than lecturing alone. Ten quotes from the first ten lecturers to re...
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What's your idea for bringing Dutch and international students together? 01 October 2018
Do you have a creative idea for improving contacts between Dutch and international students? Work out a plan and you could win the Van Bergen Prize an...
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Leiden online course among the world's best 21 September 2018
An online course offered by Leiden University on the European Union is among the top 50 MOOCs in the world. This was announced recently by MOOC platfo...
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Calls for proposals on innovation in education 17 July 2018
A number of calls for proposals have been launched to finance innovative educational projects. An overview is given below.
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Well-attended Education Festival on innovation 20 June 2018
The eight ambitions of Leiden University's vision on education - Learning@LeidenUniversity - were the key theme of the packed Education Festival on ...
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Innovative teaching in History 12 June 2018
History lecturer Giles Scott-Smith is enthusiastic about the new pitch-to-peer programme (P2P), for which students have to make an original, creative ...
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Using camera traps to learn about biodiversity 11 June 2018
Students at Leiden University College (LUC) learn about biodiversity not only in the lecture hall, but also in the natural environment. University lec...
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Innovative education in Medicine 07 June 2018
Putting our interns to work’ is the third-year slogan for the Master’s Programme in Medicine at Leiden University. After their regular residency perio...