EDLAB education innovation projects

The UM Advising project aims to enhance student success by formulating a vision of student guidance based on collaboration between faculty and students, promoting transparency and personal as well as professional growth.

The AI & Education at UM webpages aim to assist educators in incorporating AI into their teaching while also safeguarding their education from potential risks. 

How can you fairly grade individual contributions in group work? What do you do with free riders? Based on research, EDLAB developed a guide for teaching staff that offers recommendations based on successful practices of assessing individual contributions to group work at UM.

A community of practice (CoP) facilitated by EDLAB is a group of people who come together around a topic of interest related to UM’s education, motivated by a desire to learn and grow professionally while also experiencing a sense of belonging and relatedness.

Constructive Alignment (CoAl) is an approach to instructional design that integrates intended learning outcomes or learning objectives, teaching and learning activities, and assessment and feedback methods. Download the handbook.

Education That Moves You (ETMY) is an EDLAB project that introduced standing desks into the UM problem-based learning tutorials to explore a more dynamic approach to learning. 

The EDvance Report aims to stimulate UM teaching staff to diversify PBL formats further and be more creative with regard to intended learning outcomes, teaching –and learning activities and assessment. 

The EDview research project in 2017-2018 reflected on UM’s educational philosophy and practice around PBL. 

Struggling with group dynamics? To stimulate better feedback within a tutorial group, a team of PREMIUM students and the Cube Design Museum designed Feedbackᶾ, a set of 7 cubes that will help make your team feedback session easier, more natural and fun!

UNESCO states that Global Citizen Education (GCEd) aims to empower learners of all ages to assume active roles, both locally and globally, in building more peaceful, tolerant, inclusive and secure societies.

This project explores the impact of LLMs on student-centred educational models, such as Problem-Based Learning (PBL), as implemented at Maastricht University.

In this project, EDLAB and the University Library designed an evidence-informed programme for information literacy and critical thinking at Maastricht University.

Following the successful implementation of Study Smart, this project aims to deepen our understanding of ‘self-regulation’ in learning and build towards a curriculum that supports self-regulated learning at UM.

What makes students experience a sense of connection to the university? This project researches the topic of student engagement and develops workshops and training courses to create a stronger learning community. 

The Study Smart project researched the difficulties that students have in their self-study. It developed evidence-based resources and training courses to improve students' self-study through improved practice, raising awareness, and increasing reflection.

This project aimed to create 360° tutorial group videos for integration into UM-wide PBL tutor training. 

EDLAB and DEXLab collaborated on a project to evaluate how VR technology could improve Problem-Based Learning formats and support its core principles. The project resulted in the release of a comprehensive report and practical guidelines for educators in April 2024.