A "new" face at the Teaching Academy
Since 1 January, the support team of the Teaching Academy has been strengthened with a new face. Gytha Rijnbeek has been working at TU Delft for 12 years and knows the university from different angles: as a student, as a study advisor and as an advisor within HR Talent & Development. As the new Teaching Academy programme manager, she will focus on uniting lecturers and educational initiatives together with Academic Director Annoesjka Cabo and the Teaching Academy team in the Teaching Lab.

On 25 November Ingrid van Engelshoven Minister of Education, Culture and Science visited the TU Delft. Before she visited the Dreamhall, the minister had a meeting with students about student wellbeing and student success. Furthermore, there was a round table meeting in the Teaching Lab with lecturers on workload and digitalisation. Academic Director of the Teaching Academy, Annoesjka Cabo, spoke with her and told her how the Teaching Academy connects teachers with each other, about the numerous initiatives that are developed and implemented, and how that improves education at our university. Cabo: “The Teaching Academy is all about Education, I want to emphasise that this is the right time to develop new career opportunities within universities.”

Watch the compilation of the visit.

In January 2020, the Teaching Academy, in collaboration with Teaching and Learning Services, is launching Special Interest Groups and Peer Consultation to support educators in reflecting on their own practice in a collaborative and supportive learning environment. Are you interested to join these Communities of Practice? Read more

Calvin Rans, assistant professor in the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering and Best Lecturer of TU Delft 2018, has now been voted the best teacher in the Netherlands. The jury praised Rans for his ability to inspire his students and for his continual efforts to improve his lectures. Read more 

Dr. Calvin Rans, lecturer at the faculty of Aerospace Engineering and Best TU Delft Lecturer in 2018, has reached the final round in the national ‘Best Lecturer in 2019’ contest. The event will take place on April 13th in the Utrecht Jaarbeurs. Read more

Your teaching Lab offers a wide range of educational experiments. One of the rooms includes the Webex video conferencing tool, a temporary pilot project between Cisco and TU Delft. Since the start of the Academic year, the Career Centre is experimenting with this video conferencing tool. See our page 'Rooms for innovation' for more information.

Did you know that about 250 teachers are involved in online education at TU Delft? Thanks to their enthusiasm, efforts and dedication – supported by learning developers, and marketing and administration colleagues – our University’s achievements in O2E are internationally recognized: we have won 26 prestigious awards and are acknowledged by MIT as one of the key front-runners in online education. Read more