Students develop their own AI assistant in new course |
In a new FSW Honours College course students from various academic disciplines dive into the world of artificial intelligence (AI). The course, Artificial Intelligence: Understand and Create, was designed by Marc Cleiren and Pieter Pierrot to be accessible to all students, regardless of their prior programming experience.
The course offers students a comprehensive understanding of AI, combining theoretical knowledge with practical application. Marc Cleiren: “This course encourages students to team up and create AI assistants that can facilitate their academic journey, fostering collaboration and creativity.”
>> Read the article |
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Senior Teaching Qualification for two FSW teachers |
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Soon to come: chatbot EduKate |
The Teacher Platform FSW is the place to go to for all your information about teaching at FSW. Soon the platform will be equipped with a chatbot. EduKate will answer all your questions about teaching at FSW and show you the way on the platform. We are training EduKate right now. Would you like to help with that? Mail to docentenplatform@fsw.leidenuniv.nl and you'll hear from us!
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And the Grassroots go to... |
The winners of the Grassroots and Grass Shoots grants 2025-2026 have been announced. Nine (teams of) FSW lecturers will receive grants to innovate their teaching in the coming acadamic year. The new projects are very diverse in nature: from e-learning modules to chatbots and from online collaboration to vodcasts.
>> Read about the projects |
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Experienced educational innovater? Apply for a fellowship or award |
Are you a driven educational innovator with an idea for an ambitious innovation project that will improve the education of students at several faculties or the entire university? Or are you already developing such an innovation? Then submit your innovation for internal consideration and selection of the university’s nomination for the Dutch Education Award 2026 and/or the submission for the Comenius Leadership Fellowship 2026. The deadline is 9 April.
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Moji Aghajani: "Make your course multidimensional" |
Moji Aghajani, assistant professor at Education and Child Studies, believes in education being more than just transferring knowledge. His courses go beyond traditional lectures. "Organise a field trip, invite experts and experts by experience. A good story, told first-hand, is so much more powerful than theory alone."
>> Read the interview with Moji
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Turn your Brightspace course into an exciting journey of discovery by using release conditions. With release conditions, you can set conditions a student has to fulfill before being allowed to access specific course content. This way, you can create a custom learning pathway through the materials in you course. For example:
- Students can only take week two's quiz until they received a passing grade fot the quiz in the first week.
- Students are required to post to a discussion topic before they can see a content module.
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