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VU EdTech Day 2023

Digital teaching tools are here to stay. And these developments continue. At the VU EdTech Day on 13 April 2023, you could get an insight into many educational tools to improve your teaching in just one day. These are tools that have proven their worth as well as those of the near future. This VU EdTech Day 2023 was a first!

In the morning, there was an entirely online programme with parallel sessions or a visit to the Pop-up studio of the VU Education Lab. Then everyone had lunch from 12:00-13:00. After that, the on-campus programme started in the NU-building, including three rounds of parallel sessions.

Keynote: Crowdsourcing ideas for the future of education - dr. Amanda Porter (SBE)
A crowd-based collaborative approach for developing ideas into novel services and products is becoming the new standard by which business and social organizations determine their own future and offerings. Dr. Amanda Porter of the KIN Center for Digital Innovation talked about this topic and the current SBE-VU Education Lab efforts to pilot with this concept. Amanda shared her current experiences with the ImpactLab and outlook for further use at VU Amsterdam. View the presentation!

The workshop presentations of those who have made their presentations available can now be found under the corresponding workshops below.

VU EdTech Day - A VU Show & Share event
Are you interested in more events like the VU EdTech Day? Then take a look at VU Education Lab, the place at VU where teachers meet.

Workshops programme

  • Online workshop round 1 - parallel sessions - 10:00-10:50
    1. IguideME - Natasa Brouwer (UvA)
      Gives students and teachers real-time insight into the learning process and feedback using AI prediction
      View the presentation
    2. Panopto - Erik Boon (VU Education Lab)
      Get to know the new versatile online video hosting and sharing system for teaching and learning
    3. CodeGrade - Thilo Kielmann (Beta) and Yuri Peers (SBE)
      Programming education made intuitive by a revolutionary grading tool
    4. Writefull - Gea Dreschler (FGW)
      An advanced AI tool for students and researchers to improve their academic language skills through advanced feedback
    5. Pop-up studio, PanoptoPOD studio and Lightboard tour - Joost Canters (VU Eduation Lab)
      Please note: this is a physical tour. Tour starts at Education Lab NU-1A.25
      VU Education Lab facilities to easily record knowledge clips with support of student-assistants

  • Online workshop round 2 - parallel sessions - 11:00-11:50
    1. Motivate students to come prepared to lecture and workgroups using these tools - Charlotte Meijer and Thao My Duong (VU Education Lab) - English spoken
      How can you motivate students to come to college prepared? Tools have been developed especially for this purpose. Not only are students more prepared, but you also have insight into who is prepared, into what students already understand and do not understand, and you can make studying more interactive and active for your students. During this workshop, we will discuss the tools FeedbackFruits Interactive Document, Interactive Video and Perusall.
      View the presentation
    2. H5P - Erik Boon (VU Education Lab)
      Easy to use tool to make interactive learning materials
    3. SOWISO and Grasple - Lothar Kuijper (Beta) and Ilja Cornelisz (FGB)
      Effective and interactive learning of Mathematics and Statistics
    4. Annotate PRO - Silvester Draaijer (VU Education Lab)
      Comprehensive online feedback library to quickly provide your students with high-quality feedback
    5. Pop-up studio, PanoptoPOD studio and Lightboard tour - Joost Canters (VU Education Lab)
      Please note: this is a physical tour. Tour starts at Education Lab NU-1A.25
      VU Education Lab facilities to easily record knowledge clips with support of student-assistants

  • Workshop round 1 - parallel sessions - 13:30-14:20
    1. Desmos: an exceptionally versatile, free educational tool for mathematical visualization and non-mathematical classrooms - Stefan Hochguertel (SBE)
      Desmos.com offers a highly intuitive graphing calculator that lets students explore mathematical functions and concepts in algebra and calculus. Whereas similar professional software is used in the natural sciences and engineering, Desmos is free, robust, available at your fingertips, and easily accessible as neither installation nor login are required. As teacher, Desmos helps you provide the intuition by showing how the gears of a model are turning. The Desmos classroom allows teachers to design their own activities that can be used to structure in-class discussions, and it offers unique possibilities for testing, assessment and feedback at the level of the individual student.
    2. VU Reading Lists – Cees van Gent (UB)
      Attractive and effective reading lists system to provide easy and optimal accessible literature lists for students
      View the presentation
    3. Next level Mentimeter - Charlotte Meijer, Sharoma Gokoel (VU Education Lab) - language English
      Would you like all your students to participate during your lectures? With Mentimeter, you can easily involve all your students. This way, you take the first steps towards creating a safe learning climate in which all students dare to participate. Mentimeter is a tool that most of us know by now, but usually only the simplest functions are used. But there are many more functions that make it much more fun to participate. During this workshop, we will let you experience these functions for yourself and learn how to use them.
      View the presentation
    4. EasyGenerator - Eva Sugeng (SBE)
      Create and share high-quality interactive courseware (e-learnings)
      View the presentation
    5. Pop-up studio, PanoptoPOD studio and Lightboard tour - Joost Canters (VU Education Lab)
      VU Education Lab facilities to easily record knowledge clips with support of student-assistants
      Tour starts at Education Lab NU-1A.25

  • Workshop round 2 - parallel sessions - 14:30-15:20
    1. FeedbackFruits Peer review and Self Assessment of Work/Skills - Danny Scholten (Beta)
      Discover the benefits of letting students interactively assess their own skills and those of others
    2. OnStage, the new user-friendly application to support the thesis process
      - Erik Elinks  &  Niek Rood (SOZ)
      Find out how OnStage can support the thesis process. During the workshop you will not only learn what the application can do, but you will also get the chance to go through the application in the role of a student, supervisor or education office employee. This way you experience how the application supports the thesis process from different perspectives.
    3. KDenLive - Erik Boon (VU Education Lab)
      Powerful open source video editor to edit videos and knowledge clips
    4. Extended Reality, Holoconnect and 3D printing - Linde Voorend (UB)
      Explore the possibilities for your course
    5. Pop-up studio, PanoptoPOD studio and Lightboard tour - Joost Canters (VU Education Lab)
      VU Education Lab facilities to easily record knowledge clips with support of student-assistants
      Tour starts at Education Lab NU-1A.25

  • Workshop round 3 - parallel sessions - 15:30-16:20
    1. ChatGPT - Christine Moser (SBE)
      What are the current experiences, for better or for worse, at VU Amsterdam?
    2. FeedbackFruits portfolio - Maria Uglvig (FeedbackFruits)
      A sneak preview of advanced future VU functionalities to engage and guide students in developing their core competencies
    3. Teams in Onderwijs - Bart Piersma (IT) and Amanda Porter (SBE)
      Learn how students can use the new multifunctional collaboration tool of VU Amsterdam for their studies
    4. Visualise the learning lines within your programme using these tools - Charlotte Meijer and Nadine Timans (VU Onderwijswerkplaats) - language Dutch
      Do the subjects in your programme fit together logically? To what extent do subjects in the programme contribute to the learning goals? Does the degree of difficulty of the subjects within the programme increase slowly? How high is the study load of the subjects in a given period? Is there assessment of what needs to be measured? Tools have been developed to give you easy insight into these questions. During this workshop, the tools Act-E and UAS will be shown.
      View the presentation
    5. Pop-up studio, PanoptoPOD studio and Lightboard tour - Joost Canters (VU Education Lab)
      VU Education Lab facilities to easily record knowledge clips with support of student-assistants
      Tour starts at Education Lab NU-1A.25