Use cases pillar online education

Students often find chemistry practicals exciting. A lot can go wrong, resulting in quite high costs and safety risks. Together with the RUG, WUR developed a virtual chemistry practical to let students first practice virtually with virtual reality glasses in preparation for physical practicals.

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Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences students experience high pressure during practicals because they still lack the skills to perform actions properly. Leiden University therefore developed interactive videos on these skills. This leads to better learning results, lower study pressure and less workload for lecturers and supervisors of practicals.

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How do you give students and teachers insight into learning progress at any time? University lecturer Erwin van Vliet wanted to offer his students one-to-one guidance, but how do you do that in large-scale education? He developed a learning analytics dashboard that provides insight into what students are doing in the online learning environment.

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Many people associate online education with a 'talking head' on a screen. The University of Utrecht, TU/e and WUR show that you can also design it in a completely different way, such that physical and online education reinforce each other. Together, they investigated the best way to use a Virtual Classroom.

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When studying earth sciences, fieldwork should not be missing. Yet this component is under pressure due to a shortage of lecturers with a field geology background and an increase in students. Utrecht University developed an app that supports students in supervising fieldwork, allowing the lecturer to focus on the complex questions and reflection.

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"During a multidisciplinary consultation, students and co-assistants prefer to keep quiet, just to avoid asking stupid questions. And because they no longer receive education in that area, there is a risk that their knowledge will lag behind in the rest of their careers," says doctor and lecturer in radiology Matthias Cabri. Amsterdam UMC and the UvA have therefore developed the Radiology Education Clinic, a safe and accessible environment to ask those very questions.

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Biomedical science, health science and medicine students have all had chemistry in their subjects. With that knowledge, they should be able to make simple lab calculations. The reality is that their basic knowledge lags behind what is needed in practice. Herman Popeijus of Maastricht University developed an online tool that allows students to practise their lab calculation skills called OLaF.

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Maastricht University took the law of persons and family law block in a new direction. Instead of short, one-sided cases on paper, students now assist a couple in a complex divorce in two groups. 'This way, we give students much more baggage in the profession of family law lawyer,' says Gwen Noteborn from Maastricht University.

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Collaborative learning or collaborative learning aims not only to develop one's own knowledge and person, but also to help others move forward. Thanks to the open and online education incentive scheme, the Open University (OU) developed the Frocole app to support the feedback and reflection process of groups working together,

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At Utrecht University, law students emerge from a classroom in their gowns. They practise pleading in a virtual environment. This way, they can practice their speaking skills in a realistic way and learn from each other. Their first reaction; 'what a cool experience!'

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An innovative and instructive form of education, but also a moral dilemma. This is how lecturer in Technical Public Administration Pieter Bots describes the learning relay he initially developed for his first-year students at TU Delft. "For some students it works extremely well, others call it 'unfair'."

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Lecturer Stefan Hugtenburg explains how they challenge TU Delft students to exchange more knowledge via a knowledge platform with game elements. Especially in corona time, this is of great value.

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