Education Institute

Procedure grading and archiving final work 2014-2015

The new quality assurance procedure regarding final work assessment poses many questions for supervisors and graders in bachelor’s and master’s programmes at FASoS. The following memo is primarily meant as a helpful guideline for first and second graders. It provides examiners with information on the procedure to grade and archive final work.

Workshop video in education offered

The University Library is looking for staff members interested in applying video in their teaching. Media training courses will be offered to teachers who wish to record their lectures. The Library is also looking for course coordinators who wish to experiment with video in their course. Pilots could include creating short videos about specific concepts, letting students make these clips, letting students make video assignments, etc.


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Jesuit collection thesis award

In September 2014, the Executive Board of Maastricht University decided to continue the annual thesis award related to research in the University Library’s Jesuit collection, for a period of four years, starting this year. The annual award of €1,000 will be split into €700 for the first prize and €300 for the second prize. It will be granted to bachelor’s, master’s or PhD theses that pay substantial attention to books belonging to this special library collection.


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Call for proposals digital examination

The Dutch organisation for IT in higher education (Surf) offers grants of a maximum of €25,000 to test new ways to use digital examination. The deadline for application is Monday 15 June. If you are interested, please contact Gaby Lutgens, the e-learning coordinator of the University Library.


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Urgent: activate plagiarism check in EleUM

The procedure to create Safe assign upload points in EleUM has changed. You now have to check the “Check for plagiarism” checkbox when you create upload points in EleUM. If you don’t check this box, uploaded documents will not be checked against plagiarism.


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Jesuit collection thesis award

In September 2014, the Executive Board of Maastricht University decided to continue the annual thesis award related to research in the University Library’s Jesuit collection, for a period of four years, starting this year. The annual award of €1,000 will be split into €700 for the first prize and €300 for the second prize. It will be granted to bachelor’s, master’s or PhD theses that pay substantial attention to books belonging to this special library collection.


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Jesuit collection thesis award

In September 2014, the Executive Board of Maastricht University decided to continue the annual thesis award related to research in the University Library’s Jesuit collection, for a period of four years, starting this year. The annual award of €1,000 will be split into €700 for the first prize and €300 for the second prize. It will be granted to bachelor’s, master’s or PhD theses that pay substantial attention to books belonging to this special library collection.


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Report on Dutch conference on innovation in education

‘De Onderwijsdagen’ (‘Education Days’) is a Dutch conference about innovation in education, organised by Surf, a collaborative organisation for ICT in Dutch higher education and research. Robert Buzink wrote a report of the event, covering topics such as digital examination, online examination and grading, the use of video in education and the use of online courses to supplement regular programmes.


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Course books available through course archive

Course books are now available to all teaching staff through the course archive on the J drive. The archive goes back to the academic year 2011-2012. Besides course books, the archive also contains e-readers for some courses. The archive is not complete yet. If the course book or e-reader of your course is missing, please ask a secretary of your department to place it in the archive.


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Information services for students drastically revised

This summer FASoS drastically revised its information services for students. From now on, study information will be disclosed through the Faculty website via a new section called ‘Current students’. Relevant parts of the Electronic Service centre (eSC) have been transferred to the website (Current students>Study information) and information from the Student Intranet has been transferred to the website as well (‘Current students’).


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