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Category: Education
Five UM faculties launch portfolio tool PebblePad in September
This academic year, 14 UM bachelor and master programs across five faculties (FHML, FPN, FSE, LAW and SBE) will start using digital portfolio tool PebblePad. UM acquired a university-wide license in February 2024. Most programs go live in September 2024, while some will follow later in the academic year. In subsequent academic years more are expected to follow.
…Maastricht University Library as a Living Lab: supporting collaboration and innovation
As Maastricht University (UM) Library is working towards the academic library of the future, it aims to act as a living lab. This approach fosters collaboration and knowledge sharing within the UM community, involving students, staff, and external partners. Through various projects, the library is becoming a hub for experimentation, learning, and the co-creation of solutions for actual research topics. Below are some recent projects that exemplify this aim.
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Upcoming training: make your teaching more interactive with Wooclap
Do you want to refresh your knowledge about Wooclap or have you not used Wooclap before and want to start using Wooclap in your teaching? In this article, you can read more about the trainings offered by Wooclap in the coming months.
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Maastricht University’s Participation in the OpenUp Scheme: Financial Support for Promoting Digital and Open Learning Materials
Maastricht University Library has successfully applied for the OpenUp incentive scheme from Npuls! The OpenUp scheme offers the opportunity to strengthen and sustain our ambitions with digital and open learning materials. It is a chance to take the lead in collaboration with the faculties and increasingly apply, embed, and permanently integrate the sharing and reuse of digital open learning materials in the educational process.
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Do we need to develop AI literacy, or is it part of digital literacy?!
During the hype of ChatGPT many people were wondering how we can integrate AI literacy in our teaching. However, what is missing in that assumption is that we sometimes overestimate the digital literacy skills of our students and instead of directly jumping to AI literacy, we should look at the level of digital literacy as well.
…New online resource: Compustat Capital IQ Transcripts (via Wharton)
Compustat Capital IQ Transcripts provides a convenient way to analyse historical transcript data and trends on 10,600 companies.
…Highlights 2023
We are excited to present the Highlights 2023, showcasing our achievements from the past year. Maastricht University Library continues to innovate itself in response to the increasing diversity of scientific information resulting from digitisation. Consequently, the library plays an active role in making scientific information available and supporting its use for education and research.
…Access to public health literature with Global Health database
The University Library recently started offering access to the Global Health database (EBSCO). Global Health is a database that provides a truly global perspective on public health, indexing key literature not covered by other databases.
…Open Education Week at Maastricht University
Every year in March Open Education Week takes place as a week-long series of global events. This year Open Education Week is scheduled from 4 March to 8 March. The aim of this event is to increase awareness, highlight initiatives, and showcase the influence opening up aspects of education has on communities and individuals. Throughout Open Education Week, various online and local events will take place, including workshops, webinars, discussions, debates, and other activities, catering to both the general public and specific audiences such as faculty or students.
…Exploring the pages: Students bring rare books to life
Student reviews about 12 captivating old books from Maastricht University’s (UM’s) Special Collections have recently been published on Wikipedia.
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