Newsletter December 2022

BMS Teaching Academy 

In this newsletter

•  BMS Teaching Academy 2.0: Teamwork
• Calendar of Educational activities and events
• Statistics using R - An introduction for thesis supervisors and teachers
• BMS E-learning specialists
• News and activities form CELT/TELT/4TU/CEE
• Contact information

BMS TEACHINg Academy 2.0

We have a BMS Teaching Academy TEAM now!

To offer you coordinated, all-encompassing support.

The team consists of an academic and a managing director together with:  

 We aim to support you and facilitate educational innovation and development at faculty-, programme-, and course level!

So, contact us if we can help you with your educational development.

Later in this Newsletter we give you an impression on what e-learning specialists can offer. 

Educational events calendar

More and actual information: BMS Teaching Academy events website

 Statistics using R 

Enrich your research and guide your students

An introduction for thesis supervisors and teachers

Since 2020, research methodology and data analysis courses are taught using the statistical programming language R, and therefore not SPSS. This academic year, the first cohort of R students will enter their Bachelor thesis trajectories. As such, thesis supervisors and teachers who did not yet do so need the proper basis in R themselves, so that students can receive the supervision they need. Therefore, new rounds of Introduction to R workshops are organized, starting with four opportunities to participate in January 2023. Each workshop is split in two parts: First, we will introduce you to R, the way we teach R to students, and what you will be faced with and can expect of your students, combined with practice time on example datasets. Second, you will have the opportunity to bring your own data and existing SPSS scripts and practice your analyses in R.

In January, we offer four Introduction to R workshops:

• Tuesday, 17 January 2023, 13:45 to 17:30, on Campus, room CR 3F, subscribe via LINK
• Wednesday, 18 January 2023, 08:45 to 12:30, on Campus, room CR 3E,  subscribe via LINK
• Tuesday, 24 January 2023, 08:45 to 12:30, on Campus, room CR 3A,  subscribe via LINK
• Thursday, 26 January 2023, 13:45 to 17:30, on Campus, room CR 2N,  subscribe via LINK

For more information, if you have any questions, and if you are interested in follow up workshops to lift your education and research to the next level, please contact Johannes Steinrücke via j.steinrucke@utwente.nl, MS Teams, visit him in the Cubicus, room B320, For a variety of information on the use and teaching of R see the canvas page!

BMS e-Learning specialists

The BMS e-learning specialists support the faculty in the effective use of educational technology.

Areas of focus

Our current focus is on the following topics:

• Blended learning: you want to meaningfully integrate the digital and in-person components of your education to cater for various learning needs, support your students in all phases of their learning, and provide them with the benefits of flexibility? We help you improve or (re-)design your course into blended format.
• Canvas (re-)design: do you want to improve or restyle your Canvas pages to make them more appealing and student friendly? We help you through personal guidance, tools, templates, and … teaching assistants!
• Digital tools and activities: do you want to find out how to engage and support your students both in the physical classroom and virtual learning environments? We help you select the right activities and tools.
• Video-lectures: do you need guidance in the development of video-lectures (btw. what is the difference with ‘micro-lectures’, 'screencasts', 'pencasts' ... what are the best practices, and what is a DIY studio???) We help you define a suitable concept, prepare your slides, and script, and develop your videos.

 How we work

1. Personalised support: you (or your programme) are welcome to come to us with any ideas, questions, or issues concerning the areas above. We will find together the best way to support you.
2. Workshops: we regularly organise workshops for you to learn about the fundamental concepts, best-practices, and tools in your area of interest.
3. Open lab sessions: work with us (online or offline) in our open-lab days (close to the start of new quarters or following workshops).

Get in touch with us!                

                                                         Elearning-bms@utwente.nl

For direct contact with Francesca:  f.m.frittella@utwente.nl
For direct contact with Preeti:         p.mishra@utwente.nl

News and Activities From CELT/TELT and 4TU.CEE

• “Performance skills: Grow as an authentic teacher “
               Is a new training and starts in February (3x 2,5 hours on Thursday afternoons).
               Is also planned for June 2023. For more information see: Link

• For more CELT courses see the CTD Course finder on domain teaching  (= CELT Course finder)
• 2 new innovational podcasts on Education and by BMS teachers are available now:
  • EduTalks #3 - Comparative Judgement (Marieke van Geel & Priyanka Pereira)
  • EduTalks #4 - Entrepreneurial Inspiration (Rainer Harms & Kasia Zalewska)
•  The Innovation Map of 4TU.CEE is a source of inspiration for Educational innovation.
    Also results of BMS innovation projects can be found there.

Contact Information: STAY IN TOUCH

Visit our BMS Teaching Academy website

Join our BMS Teaching Community teams to stay updated, interact with fellow BMS teachers and find more resources.

If you have any input, ideas, or suggestions: Corrie Huijs (c.huijs@utwente.nl)
or members of our BMS Teaching Academy team!

 We wish you