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XXL hours from Saturday 30 November – Thursday 19 December
Need a place to study? During the upcoming exam period, the library offers UM students extra opening hours. Also check out the 24/7 studying at the Studenthotel Maastricht, the overview of informal study places and bookable rooms within UM campus ... Keep reading

Google digitises 4,000 books for the Maastricht University Library
Last summer Google has digitised 4,000 books, as part of their Digitization Google Books NL project. From the Dutch books printed before 1900, so far 86% is now digitised in colour. ... Keep reading

Promotional video Jesuit collection
In 1993, Maastricht University released a promotional video about the Jesuit collection. At the time, it was still a so-called audiovisual production, which was subsequently recorded on video. And digitised even later. However, its topicality has remained more or less the same. That is why we wish to draw your attention to this video once more ... Keep reading

Nieuwe EndNote versie voor Mac
Een nieuwe EndNote versie is beschikbaar, specifiek voor Mac. ... Keep reading

New Endnote version for Mac
A new EndNote version is available as of October 2019, specifically for Mac ... Keep reading

Looking back at Leading Change in Teaching & Learning Spaces
On 26 September, Adam Finkelstein, Associate Director Learning Environments at McGill University, addressed the change process from traditional lecture halls to Active Learning Classrooms and Active Learning Labs, where collaborative, constructive and self-directed learning are facilitated with classroom design and technology. ... Keep reading

Reminder: call for proposals on Open and Online Education
Are you thinking about online facilitating guidance for students? Or looking for opportunities to share learning material and optimise the reuse of existing learning material? The Minister of Education, Culture and Science makes funding available to higher education institutions ... Keep reading

Open Education: do not reinvent the wheel, get inspired
Open Education is part of Open Science, as became clear during the Open Science event last Friday, 25 October. Leo Köhler (FHML) presented the TOOL2-project and Costas Papadopoulos (FASoS) showed us the DARIAH Teach Platform ... Keep reading

FeedbackFruits for interaction and peer feedback
After successful piloting several FeedbackFruits tools, we invite you to explore how you can make use of these tools in various didactic scenarios in which interaction is central ... Keep reading

Wooclap for promoting interaction and live voting!
With this audience response tool, UM Library supports teachers and students with the facilitation of live voting during presentations, classroom sessions and tutorial groups. ... Keep reading

First large-scale digital exams at Maastricht University
From 21 to 25 October a total of 4,036 digital exams took place using Chromebooks at MECC Maastricht. Another 600 FHML students took their exam in TestVision at the Randwyck Computer Facilities ... Keep reading

An important step on the road to Open Science at UM
Rianne Letschert signed DORA on behalf of Maastricht University last Friday during the UM Open Science Event. Find out more about DORA and Open Science at UM. And read about the exciting OS related projects that were presented by UM scholars during the event ... Keep reading

UM Library has a vacancy for a student assistant in the blended PBL support team
Would you like to contribute to educational innovation at Maastricht University? Are you savvy about IT tools for teaching and learning? Do you have a supportive attitude, willing to explain to others about opportunities or procedures? Then find out more about this vacancy ... Keep reading

Maastricht University adopts Canvas from August 2020
As off 1 August 2020, the learning management system (LMS) Canvas will be used at UM. We aim to take you along the journey towards this change and inform you about all there is to know! ... Keep reading

The University library…how does it work?
The University Library…….how does it work? The library has a lot of instruction videos to help you ... Keep reading

UM Open Science event 2019
On Friday 25 October the 2019 UM Open Science event took place. Rianne Letschert started the event with the official signage of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) ... Keep reading

XXL hours from Saturday 5 – Thursday 24 October
Need a place to study? During the upcoming exam period, the library offers UM students extra opening hours. Also check out the 24/7 studying at the Studenthotel Maastricht, the overview of informal study places and bookable rooms within UM campus ... Keep reading

Survey about the reuse of digital (open) learning material
Survey about the reuse of digital (open) learning material to gain more insight into the extent to which and the manner in which they are reused ... Keep reading

Library Vlog #9: Digital Assessment with TestVision
As of this academic year, all UM teachers can let up to 800 students take a digital exam in MECC Maastricht. UM Library provides professionalisation activities for teachers such as an online module in Canvas and face-to-face training. Check out our new vlog to find out all about this ... Keep reading

Exhibition The ideal woman
From October 2019 to February 2020 you are welcome to visit the exhibition The ideal woman. This exhibition contains books from the Jesuit Collection of the University Library ... Keep reading