Maastricht University education research

In collaboration with the faculties, EDLAB-Maastricht University Centre for Teaching & Learning aims to advance the scholarship of teaching and learning at UM by enhancing visibility, vitality and sustainability of UM's existing culture and practice of education research and innovation.

We achieve this via:

Expertise: We communicate about UM education research internally and externally, and we conduct meta-research on UM education innovation and education research.
Support: We fund and facilitate research projects, and we offer professional development workshops to foster understanding of and engagement in education research.
Community: We organise events and communities of practice to connect education researchers and strengthen the UM education research network.

We are guided in our work by the EDLAB Education Research Sounding Board (ERSB), a group of representatives from all UM faculties who share passion and vision for cultivating UM education research.

Please contact Alice Pan, EDLAB Coordinator for Education Research for more information.

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UM education research news
Photo gallery from education research events
EDLAB education research programmes & events
Education research grant project video
EDLAB's education research vision & mission
UM education research overview & resources

UM education research news

Three new resources to help teachers and students explore Large Language Models in PBL

The EDLAB innovation project The Impact of LLMs on PBL has produced three new resources to help teachers and students explore Large Language Models in PBL. Check them out!

Three new resources to help teachers and students explore Large Language Models in PBL

Building careers, not just degrees – Daniëlle Zijlstra’s research on competency-based learning

Imagine university graduates entering the workforce with not just diplomas, but also the professional skills to collaborate, communicate, and lead. This vision drives Daniëlle Zijlstra's research fellowship project at EDLAB. 

Daniëlle Zijlstra

Teachers discover education research with a hands-on workshop

On 2 December 2024, 14 teachers and educators attended the first workshop of EDLAB’s Education Research Professional Development series at Maastricht University.

Introduction to education research

Stefan Jongen envisions integrating Large Language Models in education to support learning and teaching

Stefan Jongen envisions a future where new technologies like Large Language Models support students’ self-regulated learning and complement traditional teaching methods. 

Stefan Jongen presenting his research project at EDLAB

Participate in our survey on UM’s academic culture!

Are you an academic staff member at Maastricht University? Your insights matter! 

Survey on UM's academic culture

Education research grant project: Using weekly online quizzes for multivariable calculus

In 2022, Martijn Boussé received an education research grant to implement weekly online quizzes for multivariable calculus in collaboration with students. The project brought together staff from the Faculty of Science and Engineering (FSE) and the School of Business and Economics (SBE). Crucially, the quiz system used randomisation, parametrisation, diversification, and answer-dependent feedback to make the learning experience more meaningful to students.

EDLAB's education research vision & mission

"Education research and innovation go hand-in-hand"

-Ellen Bastiaens, EDLAB Director

EDLAB’s centralised position within UM makes it uniquely capable of building UM's education research network and connecting it with education research at other institutions, as well as nationally and internationally.

EDLAB's activities in the domain of education research contribute to its overall mission of fostering a vibrant teaching and learning community at UM, through its focus on developing infrastructure and activities serving the needs of UM’s education researchers and their work. 

EDLAB’s dedication to sustainable quality of education at UM makes developing timely solutions for education challenges one of its core activities. The education research domain supports this by initiating timely and relevant research projects, and overseeing the translation of research findings into meaningful and actionable content for UM’s teaching staff.

Stefan Jongen EDLAB Education Research Fellowship project

UM education research overview & resources

UM's culture & practice of education research

edUMap: an interactive map of UM education research

Taking an integrated top-down and bottom-up approach, we are in the process of creating a visual and interactive map of UM education research and researchers to strengthen this network and facilitate interdisciplinary knowledge sharing and collaboration.

edUMap

Links to education research in UM faculties

Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences (FHML)Department of Educational Development and Research (O&O)

School of Health Professions Education (SHE)
School of Business and Economics (SBE)Department of Educational Research and Development (ERD)

Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA)
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS)FASoS Teaching & Learning Blog
Faculty of Science and Engineering (FSE)Computing Sciences Education Research Group
Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (FPN)contact: Anke Sambeth
Faculty of Law (LAW)contact: Jennifer Sellin
UM Education Days 2024