BMS Teaching Academy

Introduction

The BMS Teaching Academy facilitates educational innovation and empowers teachers to enhance their teaching through collaboration, digital integration, shared best practices, and access to valuable educational resources.

Recent highlights

Challenge Based Blended Learning

Luuk, an educational innovator at BMS, wanted to help students better understand Challenge-Based Learning (CBL) concepts in a more engaging and accessible way. He developed several short micro-lectures, for instance on the Socratic method. These micro-lectures can be built into courses flexibly.

For more information, please contact: l.g.a.buunk@utwente.nl

Peer Review with Canvas

YJ, a teacher at BMS-PHIL, aimed to boost student engagement and improve feedback quality during assignments in her course. The BMS E-Learning Team and Yj collaborated to implement a structured peer review process with clear rubrics and guided prompts. Students began providing more meaningful, actionable feedback, leading to improved assignment quality.

Would you like to try out digital peer review for your course? Contact: elearning-bms@utwente.nl

Debating Skills Workshop

Skills education and assessing academic knowledge can go hand in hand. We recently facilitated debating skills development in the IEM bachelor. By providing a minilecture on Aristotle's Rhetoric Triangle (ethos, logos, pathos) and organising a student House of Commons debate (Dutch: Lagerhuisdebat), students improved their argumentation and persuasion skills. The topics they debated on were all related to the content of the courses they followed, allowing them to showcase their understanding of the theory taught in the module.

In case you would like to facilitate skills development in your education, contact Luuk Buunk on l.g.a.buunk@utwente.nl.

Group Work Evaluation: Using BuddyCheck

Associate Professor Anna Bos-Nehles wanted a fair way to evaluate group collaboration in her HRM course. She set up Buddycheck inside Canvas, aligning its evaluation criteria with the course’s project; this led to more transparent peer feedback within teams during the project. Buddycheck helps ensure fair contribution in group work.

Would you like to use BuddyCheck in your course to evaluate group work? Contact BMS E-Learning Specialist - elearning-bms@utwente.nl

Knowledge Base

Poster: Scaffolding the development of intercultural competences through a micromodule using the CBL pedagogy: a collaboration of 7 ECIU universities

Publication: Creating the conditions for an online challenge-based learning environment to enhance students' learning

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Publication: Developing a Maturity Model to support innovation in Higher Education

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Publication: Assessment of competency development in a challenge-based learning course: Can coaches be objective assessors?

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Publication: Using the Challenge Based Learning Maturity Model (CBL-MM) as a quick scan to support teaching innovation

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Events & workshops

Management and Contact

If you would like to get in contact with the BMS Teaching Academy you can send an e-mail to rianne.kaptijn@utwente.nl or teachingacademy-bms@utwente.nl. You can also call one of the secretaries on the phonenumber: +31534893987 and +31534895701

Educational Experts associated with BMS

BMS E-Learning specialist

Educational Innovation

CELT Educational advisors (For support of BMS Teachers and Teacher TEams)

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