Continuing Professional Development

Brightspace workshops are hands-on workshops to help you use our learning platform to the fullest. We provide basic trainings and more advanced workshops.

If you can’t join the face-to-face workshop, the online resources are available on the website. You will also find our phone number and email address there, in case you would like to make an appointment if you need immediate support.

This training is free of charge.

• More information via TLS Opleidingsportaal (if you have a staff Ned-ID) or send an email to Teaching-Support@tudelft.nl

The world of education is changing. More and more teachers are experimenting with new forms of education. They flip their classroom, use videos, quizzes, and classroom discussions and so on. The world of Blended Learning offers a lot of new possibilities for teachers and education. But how do you blend your course? Where do you start? What do you need to keep in mind and what do you need to avoid? Together we will address these questions and discover the possibilities of Blended Learning. During this course you will:

• get familiar with the concepts and advantages of blended learning
• learn how online and offline teaching activities can reinforce each other
• transform a part of your own course into a blended course
• learn how to deal with possible pitfalls of Blended Learning

This training is free of charge.

• More information via TLS Opleidingsportaal (if you have a staff Ned-ID) or send an email to Teaching-Support@tudelft.nl

The course focuses on designing an online course by first looking at online learning in general, and the TU Delft Online Learning Experience model along with other models. The TU Delft Course Development Process will be introduced in order to improve efficiency in design and project planning.

During the course, you will design an online course module which will be staff and peer reviewed. The peer review will provide you with the opportunity to analyze other designs and also receive further input from peers on your own design.

This training is free of charge for TUDelft staff.

Target audience: MOOC and online lecturers & TAs who want to learn about designing an online course. It can also be useful for those involved in blended course design.

• For more information and to sign-up for the course, follow this link to TLS Opleidingsportaal (if you have a staff Ned-ID) or send an email to Teaching-Support@tudelft.nl

This course aims at developing skills and acquiring insights in activating audiences. Since activation is the key to learning effectiveness the question of activating audiences is very relevant for education.

Along with investigating the various possibilities such as games, you will learn tools from theatre for the guidance of student activity and enhancement of their mental activity using ‘Movies in the Mind’ and ‘Arcs of Tension’. A new method to analyse learning objectives will provide the opportunity to develop short practical exercises.

The cost of this training is 600 euro and can be charged to your faculty. Please ask your secretary for the baancode.

• More information via TLS Opleidingsportaal (if you have a staff Ned-ID) or send an email to Teaching-Support@tudelft.nl

If you need to create lecture videos or podcasts for your classroom, this workshop teaches you the basics to get the best possible as quickly as possible.

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• record your own videos
• edit
• add transitions
• work with a greenscreen
• correct sound

This course is self-paced and fully online. You can sign up anytime.

Cost: This training is free of charge.

Target audience: Blended and online Lecturers & TAs

• For more information and to sign-up for the course, follow this link to TLS Opleidingsportaal (if you have a staff Ned-ID) or send an email to Teaching-Support@tudelft.nl

As teaching is like telling a story in a theatre setting, this is a module that you may benefit from a great deal in your daily teaching practice.

When making presentations for groups, theatre skills are invaluable tools for captivating your audience. In this module we will apply the phenomenon of theatre to teaching, and we will discover one underlying principle to guide all aspects of our performance including posture, gestures and use of voice.

The cost of this training is 600 euro and can be charged to your faculty.

• More information via TLS Opleidingsportaal (if you have a staff Ned-ID) or send an email to Teaching-Support@tudelft.nl

In this selfpaced online course, you will learn script-writing techniques that will help you tell your story in a natural way.

You can do follow this course at your own pace. After this online course, you can follow the workshop ‘Presenting in front of a camera’, where you learn how to use this script to make an engaging video.

This course is self-paced and fully online. You can sign up anytime.

Cost: This course is currently free of charge to anyone creating a MOOC, ProfEd or blended course. You can therefore ignore the baancode request on the enrolment form.

Target audience: Blended and online lecturers & TA's

• For more information and to sign-up for the course, follow this link to TLS Opleidingsportaal (if you have a staff Ned-ID) or send an email to Teaching-Support@tudelft.nl

Course grades reflect how well students master the learning objectives. However, exams also reveal how well we succeeded in teaching the course and in developing good exam questions.
You will learn to:

• analyse to what extent your students master each learning objective.
• analyse the quality of the exam as a whole
• analyse the quality of individual sub-questions of the exam
• calculate individual grades from the individual exam scores
• adjust scoring and grading in case of quality issues with sub-questions

Information and access to the tools that are available will be provided. Example data will be used during the workshop. If you want, you can stay longer to work on your own exam dataset. During the workshop, there will be plenty of room to exchange experiences and challenges in your own courses.

This training is free of charge.

• More information via TLS Opleidingsportaal (if you have a staff Ned-ID) or send an email to Teaching-Support@tudelft.nl

At the end of the workshop you should be able to: 

• Design your assessments most efficiently 
• Develop a grading system that will speed up the process 
• Give feedback that will be prepare students for their resit 

During the workshop you will discuss possibilities, challenges and share best practices, in small groups with colleagues throughout the TU. You will receive tips from the expert Learning Developer and will be able to work on your own assessments. The workshop is open to all faculties whereas you learn from different perspectives and enhance your network. 

More information via TLS Opleidingsportaal (if you have a staff Ned-ID) or send an email to Teaching-Support@tudelft.nl

In this workshop you will experience the merits and pitfalls of rubrics. You will exchange tips to ensure the assessment is fair, efficient, transparent and objective, and stimulates your students’ learning. You will learn how to make sure your grading is comparable with the way your colleagues grade your students’ assignments or projects.

You will find out: - why rubrics can help to grade and provide feedback on student work (or make their lives miserable) - why and how to align rubrics with learning objectives, instructions and course slang - why converting a marked rubric into grades is tricky and important
There will be plenty of room to share experiences, grading tools and challenges in your own courses.

This training is free of charge.

• More information via TLS Opleidingsportaal (if you have a staff Ned-ID) or send an email to Teaching-Support@tudelft.nl

This workshop helps teachers and educational support staff to efficiently find and use open resources for presentations, courses and programmes.

By the end of the workshop participants will also be able to customize found resources and license their own work for sharing.

This training is free of charge.

• More information via TLS Opleidingsportaal (if you have a staff Ned-ID) or send an email to Teaching-Support@tudelft.nl

Peer Consultation is a structured and validated method where a group of lecturers facing similar challenges in their line of work share experiences in a secure, confidential environment.

These sessions are facilitated by experienced educational advisors with a background in supervision. The meetings are aimed at sharing difficult or challenging situations and receiving advice or counsel. This is a good way to broaden perspectives and improving the ability to deal with different situations. Growing personally and professionally requires revealing limitations or challenges to others, which can feel difficult and can make participants feel vulnerable. The facilitators of the peer consultation groups are aware of this and strive to create a warm, welcoming and supportive environment which allows everyone to give and receive both guidance and feedback in a positive and respectful way. After signing up for the first session, the group will decide on new meetings together.

Peer Consultation is free of charge.

• Send an email to Teaching-Support@tudelft.nl