Continuing Professional Development trainings: Life Long learning for Lecturers

Back to school! This new academic year brings us a fresh start with brand new courses such as Intercultural Communication in Education and Prompt training for Language Models. Although not new, but in a nice fresh new look the training Designing and Teaching an Online Course is now available. In this article you will read about some trainings we held recently and trainings that are coming up, so that you can keep enhancing your teaching skills with our training sessions. 

Looking back: summer school 

During summer the Teaching assistants were given special care. Some enjoyed the training to assist teaching for campus courses, others enjoyed the training to moderate and build online courses. Around 55 Teaching Assistants were trained. Cheaupeu to them! 

Are you a TA but have no training yet? Not to worry, we have a trainings coming up every month. If you are interested in training for online courses (Moocs, Profeds) with the Extension School click here

If you are interested inTeaching Assistants training for campus courses click here

Looking forward:

Intercultural Communication in Education

This three session workshop has been launched for the first time in September, and has a great diversity of participants with either a teaching task or tasks related to teaching. A lot of different backgrounds with many interesting discussions that equip them to promote inclusivity in their own working environments. No new dates for our next run yet but this is definitely a keeper! Keep an eye on our trainings portal for more information.

Designing and Teaching an Online Course

The countdown has started, as this long awaited training will start on 17 September. You will learn how to form and create your own online course. In six modules you will progress through four phases: planning, production, running, and evaluation. Throughout the course, you’re encouraged to join discussions and share your work on the platform. You will receive formal feedback from instructors on your submissions and can attend weekly online consultations to ask questions, share experiences, and discuss assignments. By the end, you’ll have a practical blueprint, storyboard, fully-developed module, and communication and evaluation plans for your online course. Learn more and register here.
 

Prompt Training for Language Models

With this brand new training you will learn how to use large language models like ChatGPT. You will explore the usages of language models and apply different techniques for developing prompts. The training is available on Brightspace as from 1 October. Interested? Click here to register.
 

Leiden-Delft-Erasmus trainings

Curious to follow a training held by one of our partners? You may want to have a look at How to Design impact Driven Education (Erasmus) and Inclusive Education (Leiden University). The trainings will start on 2 and 16 October, respectively.
 

For our Board members:

Coming up, we have the Board of Studies Workshop targeted at those who are new to the Board and need to become familiar with their role and responsibility. There are several dates available as from October.  Learn more and register here.
Several Board of Examiners workshops will be offered coming months for Board Examiners who wish to know more about the legal framework, their role in the board, policy, assessment quality, process of changing assessments, responding to students’ requests, and what to do with suspected fraud. The workshop will start on 18 October. Don’t miss the Lunch Session where you can discuss difficulties and cases you encounter in your work. Register here for the workshop and here for the lunch session.
 

Another round please!

We have another round for Activating Large Audiences and Education on Stage, a true success last run. Make your students practice and add some theatre skills. Curious? Next date for both trainings is on 6 November, still a while ago, but you can better already reserve your time. Both workshops can be followed on the same days.

Calendar of Trainings for October

For detailed information, visit the Teaching support website. To register directly go to the training portal.