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Category: Education


  • Course material and copyright

    Do you know how many pages of licensed resources you are permitted to use or how many images you may use in your PowerPoint presentations or course manual?

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    Creating course material to share

    If you create material which you think is worthwhile for others to use, you could consider sharing your material.

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    Guidelines for open and inclusive course material

    As a course coordinator you will undoubtedly create material for your students. A topic we want to focus on in this context is how to create accessible documents.

  • Activities in the Open Education Week 2021

    Curious what happens in the field of open education worldwide? Dive into activities organised in the context of the global Open Education week.

  • The library in times of lock down

    The government’s measures of 14 December 2020 still oblige to close all libraries and learning spaces. All services, for students and staff, are provided online.

  • Tools for online education

    From the very start of the corona crisis in the Netherlands, we informed you as much as possible about tools available to facilitate online and hybrid education. We faced evolving needs, new regulations and changes in licenses. That is why we share this update about what is available for you.

  • Discover KeyLinks Learning Resources for your courses

    Starting course period 3 (January 2021), KeyLinks Learning Resources will help you create uniform lists of course-related materials for your students in Canvas. Let us introduce this new tool to you.

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    UM roadmap for project proposals in the 2020 OCW/SURF tender

    UM roadmap for project proposals in the 2020 OCW/SURF tender News overview Subscribe UM roadmap for project proposals in the 2020 OCW/SURF tender Just before summer, we shared the call for proposals on Open and Online Education. In addition we now info …

  • Information-Wise in a Nutshell

    Project Information-Wise has been running from March 2019 – August 2020. This blog post introduces the project context, its deliverables, and presents the team behind the scenes.

  • Information-Wise: UM Information Literacy Framework

    What is Maastricht University’s vision of information literacy education? Read this blog post on the UM information literacy framework to find out.