NEWS SEPTEMBER 2020 |
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JOIN THE SEFI2020 ANNUAL CONFERENCE
It’s nearly time for the annual SEFI2020 conference, this year co-hosted by 4TU.CEE. Join this exciting online event and experience and exchange ideas on engaging young people to embark on an engineering career in this rapidly changing society. With inspiring keynotes of Ruth Graham on rewarding teaching, Greet Langie on student career development, Gerard van der Steenhoven on what COVID-19 teaches us about climate change and how to embed this in education and Pierre Dillenbourg on virtual and augmented learning environments. Sign up now! |
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CORONA TRANSITION AND STUDENT LEARNING AT TUE
As in other universities, the corona transition at TU Eindhoven led to an abrupt and very fundamental change in the form of teaching and student learning. All interaction has shifted to online. This has consequences for student learning and staff teaching, but to what extent? This is what researchers Chris Snijders, Uwe Matzat, Ad Kleingeld and Rianne Conijn are monitoring in their project ‘Corona transition and student learning: what works, what doesn’t work, and what needs improvement?’ Read more…
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JOIN THE PEER FEEDBACK STUDY!
The use of peer feedback can increase student ownership and learning. However, peer feedback is not always as successful as we want it to be. Priyanka Pereira, 4TU.CEE PhD student at the University of Twente, is studying digital peer feedback in a case study that is part of the IT versnellingsagenda. She focusses on how we can make the use of peer feedback more effective. Your help is needed to be able to make sure that both teachers and students benefit from the use of peer feedback. .Read more… |
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IMPROVING STUDENT LEARNING THROUGH TEAMWORK EXPERIENCES
Roland Tormey, pedagogical advisor at EPFL, will be giving an inspiration session on 15 October 2020. Tormey will exchange experiences on student learning in teamwork projects at his university, since it is not always clear what these experiences actually teach students about teamwork and project management. You are warmly invited to this online event with interactive Q&A session. Read more… |
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SUCCESSFUL START OF THE JOINT INTERDISCIPLINARY PROJECT AT TU DELFT
The Joint Interdisciplinary Project in which 151 students work in student teams on company cases has successfully started in the 1st week of September. In this 10 week course TU Delft Master students will work on 31 company cases in the Clusters Aerospace, Energy Transition, Health, Industry & Society 4.0. and Urbanism & Delta. The first well-formulated problem definitions have been presented and left companies with a positive impression of the enormous amount of work students have done in a short period already. Read more.. |
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WORKSHOP OPPORTUNITIES FOR 4TU STAFF!
Nice workshop opportunities are coming up! Would you like to enhance your skills in managing intercultural interdisciplinary group dynamics? Follow the workshop at TU Delft on 13 November. Or enhance your skills in giving effective feedback in the international classroom in a 1-day workshop at University of Twente on 27 November or TU Delft on 11 December.
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INTERNATIONAL STUDY ON ENGINEERING EDUCATION IN CORONA TIMES
Apart from evaluation studies at our own Technical Universities, 4TU.CEE engages in an international study on engineering education in corona times with university partners from different continents. Under supervision of Ruth Graham an international inventory will describe how universities are trying to deliver quality education. Read more…
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WORKSHOP FOR TU/E INNOVATION FUND PROJECT OWNERS
4TU.CEE TU/e is organising a workshop for Innovation Fund project owners to share experiences on October 15th. The Innovation Fund of 4TU.CEE in Eindhoven supports innovation in engineering education by means of funding projects that seek evidence for promising innovative practices related to the TU/e Education vision 2030. Want to join? Sign up by sending an email: 4TU.CEE@tue.nl |
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ICAB CONFERENCE 2020
This year’s ICAB conference is fully devoted to online teaching & learning and will be organised online, hosted by TU Eindhoven on 5 November. 4TU.CEE chairman Perry den Brok will be speaking, as will Johanna Höffken (TU/e), Dutch teacher of the year 2020. Registration closes on 16 October, and is free of charge.
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ARTICLE ON INTERDISCIPLINARITY IN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE COMMUNICATION
A comment of Renate Klaassen of 4TU.CEE Delft on ‘Disentangling the different layers of interdisciplinarity’ was included in a special issue of the Journal of Science Communication. She comments that scholars investigating teamwork crossing disciplines have different definitions and understandings about what interdisciplinarity is, which can be related to the field these experts represent.
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PERSONNEL CHANGES 4TU.CEE BOARD AND ADVISORY BOARD
In the 4TU.CEE board, some personnel changes have occurred. TU Eindhoven leader, Jan Vermunt, is due to illness for the moment replaced by Antoine van den Beemt. At TU Delft, Aldert Kamp left as leader due to retirement. He has been succeeded by Marcus Specht, who will be running 4TU.CEE Delft together with Remon Rooij and Renate Klaassen. The board would like to thank Aldert for all his work and contributions to 4TU.CEE! Read more…
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AGENDA 4TU.CEE
- 20-24 September: SEFI Conference ‘Engaging Engineering Education’ online by University of Twente
- 6 October: Arise-GIN symposium at University of Twente & online
-15 October: Online Inspiration session improving student learning through teamwork experiences
15 October:Workshop for TU/e innovation fund project owners at TU/e
- 23 October: Workshop Intercultural group dynamics in multidisciplinary contexts at University of Twente
- 13 November: Workshop intercultural group dynamics in multidisciplinary contexts at TU Delft
- 27 November: Workshop: ‘Culturally appropriate and effective feedback’ at UT
- 11 December:’Culturally appropriate and effective feedback’ at TU Delft
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Redactie 4TU.nieuwsbrief |
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