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OpenUP Grant: Unlock €5.000 to transform your learning materials into FAIR resources!
Are you an educator looking to enhance your courses with innovative learning materials? The OpenUP Grant offers you the opportunity to license and share the learning materials you have created as Open Educational Resources (OER).
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What if exam prep felt more like a conversation than a countdown?
Aki Härmä and Julie Bauer explore a more open, interactive way for students to learn. Most exam preparation follows a familiar pattern: read notes, try a few questions, realise you know less than you thought, panic a little, then carry on. But what if revision could talk back?
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Qualtrics check-up required: ensure your survey is ready for the new academic year
With the start of the new academic year approaching, many are preparing surveys in Qualtrics. This year, there is one extra step in your pre-launch checklist: Verifying your Survey Taking Experience.
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Virtual Reality in higher education: added value, design, and practical implementation -workshop for teachers
Have you ever wondered how VR can be meaningfully implemented in your education? Join our workshop on 21 May!
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Registration now open: Open Science Festival Limburg 2026
The Open Science Community Maastricht and the Open Science Community Parkstad warmly invite researchers, educators, students, and anyone curious about Open Science to sign up for the Open Science Festival Limburg 2026. The festival takes place on 11 and 12 June 2026 and will bring our community together across two locations with activities in Heerlen (11 June) and Maastricht (12 June).
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Mapping Law’s Hidden Web
Law is full of hidden connections. Cases refer to cases, laws build on each other, treaties tie nations together. But how do we make sense of it all without getting lost?
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Measuring the mind is messy and that is exactly why students should try it!
Garmt Dijksterhuis turns psychological research into an open learning experience.
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Open Science Festival Limburg: save the dates
The Open Science Community Maastricht and the Open Science Community Parkstad will jointly organise the Open Science Festival Limburg on 11–12 June 2026. The festival will take place in Heerlen on 11 June and in Maastricht on 12 June, with this year’s theme on Interdisciplinarity.
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Month of Digital Fitness: strengthening digital sovereignty
At Maastricht University Library, strengthening critical thinking is an important part of our Digital Literacy Programme, through which we support students, researchers and teachers in navigating the increasingly digital academic environment. The Month of Digital Fitness offers a good opportunity to reflect on how we use digital technologies in our daily work and research.
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From classroom to the world: the Linear Algebra Card Game as an open resource
Open Education Week exists to celebrate exactly this: teaching innovations that don’t stay locked in one classroom. This year, we want to spotlight a project from right here at Maastricht University that shows what open education can look like in practice and why it matters.
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