EDview_Dos-Donts-and-Dont-Knows.pdf
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… being one of the four main themes of UM’s vision of education (UM Vision on Education, 2018). In this vision, internationalization is framed as encompassing an internationally diverse student and staff population, offering international exchange opportunities to students and staff, maintaining international partnerships, considering different languages of instruction, as well as emphasizing the “international classroom” and international curriculum themes. Although the literature does … other. Examples of initiatives to facilitate and encourage the development of such teacher communities are the UM Teach-Meet sessions hosted by EDLAB (https://edlab.nl/teachmeet/), and the FASoS Teaching & Learning Blog - an online platform for the exchange of ideas, best practices and opinions (http://fasos-research.nl/fasos-teachingblog/). A previous investigation of staff development needs at UM and two other universities indeed found that teachers are generally eager to improve their ways and … know 1). 6. Do give attention to students and staff coming from other universities: teach them and learn from them. Many EDview participants brought up the issue of students transitioning from other universities to UM, notably for their Master or exchange program, and who were less familiar with the PBL approach at UM than students trained here. It was argued that these students deserve extra attention with regard to introducing them to PBL, which has indeed been established as one of the …