Course Design Studio 2025

Many course coordinators and course planning teams do not find the time, resources and/or space to (re)design parts of their courses the way they’d really want to.

Changes often occur based on your own experiences, student feedback forms or conversations with colleagues. Even though these are valuable sources, we invite you to dig deeper during our first-ever “Course Design Studio” at EDLAB.

Join us and go back to the core of course design while also looking ahead and adapting your course for more current or even future challenges, like the continuous developments related to Generative AI.

The Course Design Studio 2025 aims for the following structure and set-up:

• Both individual course coordinators and additional course planning members (hereafter the course planning team) are welcome to join. All participants should register individually below.
• Course Design Studio takes place at EDLAB from 7 to 10 July 2025, and participation is free of charge.
• Each day we start at 09.00 with coffee/tea and a session that focuses on “the topic of the day”, e.g. the impact of GenAI on your course design, student motivation and engagement, assessment, …
• After lunch (organised by EDLAB) in the EDLAB building, materials and trainers with coordination and/or “topic of the day” experience are available to you to support your course redesign process in your own group or by yourself.
• On the last day of the week (Thursday 10 July), through short presentations, each course coordinator/planning team shares their main takeaways, inspirations and changes made to the course. Afterwards, we have a closing lunch.
• This activity may count towards your Continuing Professional Development (CPD) if relevant to your situation.
   

By the end of this workshop, participants will have:

• received information about themes and topics relevant for course design anno 2025
• (re)considered aspects of the courses that may need improvement
• redesigned parts of their courses that will benefit the course in the future
• presented their key takeaways, inspirations and changes made to the course in a wrap-up presentation at the end of the week.
   

Who organises the Course Design Studio?

Course Design Studio is organised by EDLAB professional development for teaching and learning colleagues Donna Carroll, Dominique Meyers & Eveline Persoon in collaboration with various UM “topic of the day” experts (to be confirmed later).