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EDLAB brings together the Maastricht University Teaching and Learning community to enhance educational practices and enrich the student learning experience.
Nestled in the city part at the Tapijn barracks, we are an educational expertise centre dedicated to creating and sharing knowledge, resources, and support for the Maastricht University community. We aim to drive professional development, foster innovation, facilitate knowledge exchange, and conduct educational research to build a strong educational community.
Cultivating a Culture of Learning
Advancing Education Innovation
Enhancing Knowledge and Practice
Stimulating Students
Reaching Out
EDLAB is committed to fostering a culture of learning at UM, and our activities are open to both teaching staff and students. We offer a diverse range of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) opportunities for teaching staff, including workshops, training courses, and online resources. Additionally, we host conferences, seminars, the annual UM Education Days, and interactive Teach-Meet and Student-Meet sessions, which provide opportunities for staff and students to network and gain valuable insights from experts in the field.
Our online magazine, edUMinded, serves as a platform to showcase the perspectives and experiences of the Teaching & Learning community at Maastricht University and to foster ongoing dialogue and engagement with education enthusiasts in Maastricht and beyond.
At EDLAB, we define innovation as the intentional process of creating new ideas and practices to address educational needs and create new opportunities in Teaching & Learning. Innovation can be about educational methods and practices, technology, learning environments and human interactions.
To be innovative is to explore and experiment, to have an open mind and learn from successes and failures. Innovation is driven by curiosity and the desire to do things even better than they are done now. At EDLAB, we see innovation as a process that is ongoing and happens at various levels.
At EDLAB we see innovation as an expression of curiosity and a source of inspiration, a way of maintaining a high quality of education for our students by actively engaging the educators.
Over 120 members of the UM Teaching & Learning community – teaching staff, support staff and students – from across the university came together at EDLAB for the first edition of UM Education Days on 1-2 June 2022. It was a vibrant event filled with inspiring exchanges on educational practices and perspectives.
EDLAB fosters the UM vision of student-centred, active learning. We provide a set of conditions necessary to facilitate innovation at all levels and ensure continuity. Through our various activities, we connect people and their expertise, develop new knowledge, and support practical implementation.
These three core conditions for innovation are at the heart of everything we do at EDLAB.
The UM Education Days gave me time to reflect – this should be done more often!
EDLAB works closely with UM teaching staff to develop and implement innovative teaching practices. We offer many continuing Professional Development (CPD) opportunities for teaching staff with a UTQ and a teaching load of more than 160 hours per academic year, irrespective of individual FTE. These vary from training courses, workshops, and symposia to discussion panels and online resources.
Global developments such as emerging technologies, internationalisation and changing dynamics in the labour market alter the way students think and learn. In collaboration with the EDLAB Advisory Board and UM faculties, the EDLAB education innovation team initiates university-wide pilots on cutting-edge themes. We also offer individual consultations for UM teaching staff. Contact us for an EDConsult!
EDLAB works on creating and disseminating knowledge in the field of education to inspire educational innovation and sustain the quality of education at Maastricht University. We offer Educational Grants to researchers who want to experiment with new ideas in the PBL classroom. We coordinate an Educational Research Fellowship programme in collaboration with UM faculties.
Maastricht University offers a range of Excellence programmes for ambitious, motivated, and high-performing students. At EDLAB we further develop, implement, and centrally coordinate these programmes. In a challenging, interdisciplinary learning environment, students engage in extracurricular opportunities that help them develop their talents, increase their knowledge, and strengthen their CVs.
The EDLAB Student Advisory Board (ESAB) represents the student community and hosts several Student-Meet sessions throughout the year.
The PREMIUM excellence programme showed me that creativity is a core competency of our times. There is often simply no ‘right’ solution to complex challenges in real life.
PREMIUM is UM’s exclusive Honours programme for high-performing master’s students.
The EDLAB Student Advisory Board offers a student perspective on EDLAB projects, providing early feedback and insights from the student community.
Students can initiate and drive their own projects to make their voices heard. ESAB is composed of students from all six UM faculties and meets once a month at EDLAB or online.
EDLAB is always looking for talented and motivated students to join our team as student assistants. We welcome open applications from individuals who are passionate about developments and innovation in education, and have strong communication, research and digital skills. By submitting an open application, you will have the opportunity to be considered for future student assistant positions.
EDLAB engages with external parties and stakeholders in the field of knowledge on education, be they teaching staff from other educational institutes, organisations that collaborate with EDLAB's Excellence programmes, external professional training companies, or other Centres for Teaching & Learning in the Netherlands and abroad.