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
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
Adobe Acrobat Pro DC for students
As of now, as a UM student you have Adobe Acrobat Pro DC at your disposal when using Student Desktop Student Desktop Anywhere.
Breng de ‘Minervalia’ terug naar Maastricht
Het eerste project van UM Crowd is project Minervalia. Een klein boek van grote waarde: de oudste in Maastricht gedrukte komedie.
Advance your education and research using UM’s ‘old classics’
How can using old books from the Library’s Special Collections and a bit of technology add value to advance your courses? In Library Vlog #4, Rachel Elands tells us about the Maastricht Science Programme.
Join the Student Idea Competition
Join the Student Idea Competition. We need you to come along and think together on how to solve UM’s challenges to improve the learning outcomes of our PBL by using IT!
Massive growth of Lecture Recordings at UM
Almost 4000 lectures were uploaded in 2018 to UM’s video infrastructure Mediasite.
Welcome to the Open Education Week (4-8 March)
University Maastricht celebrates Open Education Week with new initiatives in the spotlight. For example: AnatomyTOOL project, DariahTeach-platform for Digital Arts & Humanities, Open badges at FSE, Online module on digital information skills.
Contact & Support
For questions or information, use the web form right to contact a subject specialist.