Library+ Teacher
Education support for teachers @UMResources for your courses
Find and offer as many resources as you want and develop your students into domain experts and well-trained information seekers.
Borrowing from the library
Collections
Copyright Information Point
E-books
Ordering literature
Reference List
Facilities for education
Are you teaching or planning exams in the University Library in the upcoming period? In that case, we offer facilities and services for your education.
Computer facilities in the library
Hours & Locations
Reserving rooms
Software in the library
Storage capacity for students
Student Desktop Anywhere – SDA
Teaching in the University Library
WiFi: Wireless Network Maastricht University
Integrating information literacy into your course
Information Skills Support
The library organises workshops, has made some online tutorials and instructional videos. Tutorials, video’s and additional information can be found on the Skills & Support page.
Blended PBL Support
In addition to hosting the digital learning environment (EleUM), the Library also supports teachers in using Blended teaching methods and other activating pedagogies, with the PBL-philosophy at its core. We facilitate teachers with a variety of online tools, such as (peer) feedback and audience response tools, to embed in both face-to-face and online activities.
Build a course or organisation in EleUM
Create interaction during your classes.
Organise digital assessment
Check the originality of a student's paper by making use of the plagiarism detection tool, connected to submitting assignments in the digital learning environment.
Audience response tool
Create interaction during your classes.
Plagiarism detection
Check the originality of a student's paper by making use of the plagiarism detection tool, connected to submitting assignments in the digital learning environment.
Blogs in your course
To have students publish their writings and reflect on their progress and have others (peers and teachers) comment.
Video in your course - VideUM
Visit VideUM for UM video services and more information about implementing video for a second watch or specific didactic scenarios.
Concept mapping tools
Concept-mapping and mind-mapping software are used to create diagrams or relationships between concepts, ideas or other pieces of information.
Virtual classroom
Facilitate group sessions on a distance.
Discussion boards
Facilitate peer support and collaborative knowledge building.
Wikis in your course
For collaborative writing and peer review.
Electronic portfolios
Offer coaching and feedback on a student built a portfolio which makes it easy to showcase students’ work and to help to demonstrate their skills to teachers or prospective employers.
Support for teachers
Specialised help on the available library facilities and services for teachers at Maastricht University.Copyright information point
Everything about copyright for teachers.
Writing Studio
The main goal of the Writing Studio is to support students and help them reflect on their thinking, searching and writing process.
Data Search Support
Turn to our data search specialists when help is needed in searching for data.
Peer Point
At Peer Point, your students can get help from a fellow student.
Library Workshops & Courses
We offer all sorts of workshops & courses in the field of information skills.
Thesis SupportAll
In addition, we offer the online Thesis SupportAll for bachelor and master students who are in the process of writing their thesis.
Education related news & events
Library Vlog #7: Blended Learning
Most teachers and students have heard about Blended Learning. However, defining this somewhat ambiguous concept is difficult. It is not well known what kind of support is available within UM Library. Learn all about this in our newest vlog!
License EBSCO E-book Academic Collection extended
The license for the EBSCO E-book Academic Collection is extended for another two years because of a positive evaluation of the usage of the collection.Â
New module ‘Profielwerkstuk’ online!
UM Library developed an online module to help pupils from secondary schools to work on their school project. This new (Dutch) module is now freely available online! The module contains practical information, self-tests, and examples.
Peer Point Tour 2019
Peer Point has been on tour the past few month, visiting UM faculties and having promotional stands at the University Library locations.
About copyright or why choose open educational resources?
Busy writing an article, using a paper or publishing a book? Check out how to cope with copyright issues. And did you ever considerate sharing or using open educational resources instead? Find out what are the options and restrictions.
UM students successfully use new video feedback feature
Recently the UM video platform Mediasite introduced ‘showcase’ for grouping uploaded videos for viewing. How well the showcases’ comment feature suits problem-based learning was demonstrated by students of FHML.
Contact & Support
For questions or information, use the web form right to contact a subject specialist.