Enabling Learning Course
Educators are responsible for helping individuals acquire knowledge and skills applicable to their professional roles. Effective teaching is a skill that can be developed, and this training provides the opportunity to enhance that ability.
The Enabling Learning Course is a 5-day professional development course for Health Professional Educators (trainers of health professionals). It focuses on making learning experiences truly valuable and rewarding – for lessons that students will remember and utilize in their professional (and maybe even personal) lives.
Programme objectives
By the end of the training, participants will:
- Recognize their level of unconscious competence and incompetence.
- Differentiate between being a ‘teacher’ and an ‘enabler of learning.’
- Explore the application of various learning theories to facilitate learning.
- Examine different learning styles and their impact on enabling learning.
- Contrast program evaluation with student assessment.
- Apply interactive and participatory formats to enhance the learning experience.
- Develop a lesson plan for a session to be implemented immediately following the training.
Course methods
- Focused on enabling learning through experiential methods.
- Introduction to key principles and techniques, emphasizing practical application and theoretical understanding.
- Including a pre-course assignment two weeks in advance.
For whom?
- Health professionals affiliated with health training institutions.
- Facilities or education institutes engaged in student training.
Contact us for more information about organising this training at Maastricht University or your location: she@maastrichtuniversity.nl or Emmaline Brouwer, director: e.brouwer@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Example of our Enabling Learning Course - Batterjee Medical College
During September 2025, we were invited by Batterjee Medical College in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to facilitate the Enabling Learning Course. Over the course of a week, 22 participants from 10 different programmes immersed themselves in student-centred and competency-based education. Together they explored what it truly means to be a teacher in this context, through group activities, individual assignments, interactive lectures, and even a hackathon. In other words, we practiced what we preach.