A manageable group of students
As a teacher, do you ever experience challenges in keeping students' attention? Are you sometimes unsure how best to deal with disruptive elements such as mutual chatter, laughter or other distractions? This teaching tip offers practical pointers and strategies to create a positive learning climate and minimise undesirable behaviour.
(March 2024)
Humour and irony in higher education
Higher education is also a good place to laugh. Certainly because various studies point to the importance of humor in education and also point to a number of possible benefits. In this ECHO teaching tip, we give you some possible angles, considerations, and suggestions for using humor and irony in your teaching.
(February 2022)
Positive vibration, yeah! A Positive Classroom Climate
Ensuring a good atmosphere during your lessons: what can you pay attention to as a lecturer? This teaching tip will also give you some ideas for creating a positive classroom atmosphere when teaching online.
(November 2020)
Laptops and smartphones in the lecture hall: part 2. How can you deal with this?
In a previous tip we covered some arguments you could take into account in your decision whether or not to ban laptops and smartphones in your learning environment. In this tip, we go further and give you some possible ways to deal with these devices.
(April 2019)
Laptops and smartphones in the lecture hall
It is often not easy for teachers to decide how to handle laptops and smartphones during class. In this tip, we provide some elements to consider.
(March 2019)
Dividing students for group work
As we are all aware, what the members of a group will be able to achieve together is largely determined by who is in the group. What is the best way for teachers to divide students into groups?
(January 2018)
Activating large student groups
The active involvement of students in lectures is important, even in higher education. Learning is not a passive activity. For large groups of students, however, ensuring active student participation is not simple. We present a few tips and tricks, grouped according to frequently asked questions from lecturers who teach large groups of students.
(September 2014)