Meet & Eat | Building the tracks for a diverse student population | 18 June

The TU campus is bubbling with a great variety of talent, a student community of bright, colourful individuals. Offering education to such a diverse community can be challenging, when students have different fascinations, different backgrounds, different ways to connect to the topics, or to adopt skills, which is prominent in interdisciplinary and international programmes. There is a risk that talented students cannot connect well with the methodology or that the course imposes strong biases. On the other hand, if a course could offer a suitable ecosystem in which diverse talent can grow, it could raise the performance of the group and enrich the learning outcomes.

In this Meet & Eat, Jos Zwanikken will share his plans to build multiple learning tracks within single courses towards the same learning goals. This initiative is inspired by several developments on campus, and supported with an Education Fellowship.
As the coordinator of several physics courses in the Nanobiology programme (Applied Science), Jos has been doing preliminary experiments with multiple tracks, e.g. by allowing students to choose for what they will be assessed. Unexpected outcomes and data will be generously shared. He will finish by sketching wonderful future prospects, identifying several "bears on the road", and warmly welcoming critical feedback, cynical remarks, abundant praise, personal experience, anecdotes, or anything that you would like to share.