education_matters_20152016.pdf
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… this education seminar was to crit- ically analyze the current practice of PBL and to inspire all people involved to find solutions and new opportuni- ties to improve current practice. It was organized by all FHML educational committees. Various workshops and lectures took place: • Problem-based learning: confused history, promising findings and bright prospects (Henk Schmidt) • Self-study: the blind spot in PBL? (anique de Bruin) • optimizing deep learning (diana dolmans and Francine Schneider) • … ConVerSATionS the student advisors’ core business, none- theless, remains the same: talking to individual students and, if necessary, referring them to an expert like a career counsellor or psychologist. More than 40 percent of the first-year students visit a student advisor at least once. Everything that’s discussed during their conversations remains confidential. “For many students, we function as the link between this big university and their own lives, especially in the first year,” Peeters … for a talk. “What we see is that we receive a lot of ques- tions when changes have been made to the cur- riculum or the examination regulations,” Hayen remarks. “it’s our task then to help looking for more than 40 percent of the firSt-year StudentS ViSiT a STudenT adViSor aT leaST once. FHML’s student advisors lend A liSTening eAr to students In need of an extra challenge, or encountering problems of any kind? At Maastricht University, students are not left to their own devices. Please meet …