Jos Zwanikken Education Fellow

The Delft Education Fellowship recognises and appreciates the efforts of lecturers for educational innovation and boosts the impact on educational reform and development. Lecturers, Assistant professors, Associate professors and Full professors can become Education Fellow when they have made a visible, substantial and valuable contribution to the education of TU Delft. The Dean of each faculty will nominate potential Fellows. Each year TU Delft appoints four new Education Fellows. Since 2016 31 Education Fellows have started their educational fellow project.

A TU Delft Education Fellow is appointed for a period of two years. They receive a two-year grant of €25,000 per year for educational purposes.

Building the tracks for a diverse student population

This project will focus on creating multiple tracks within single courses that lead to the same learning goals, with the aim of catering a diverse student population (in many aspects), and nurturing an environment that could support and promote transdisciplinarity. The project expands on a successful experiment in Q2 of the past academic year, with the intention to implement multiple tracks within the physics courses of the Nanobiology curriculum, based on level of independence/responsibility and focus on skill. This would offer the students a choice between two levels of responsibility, and supply them with a much broader scope of course materials, which are only partly summative. In particular, a selection of the summative assessments could be chosen, including assignments which put emphasis on computation, mathematical rigour, or practical relevance. These developments will be heavily informed and reviewed by educational experts and collaborators.