Four TU Delft Education Fellowship Grants awarded
The recipients of the TU Delft Education Fellowship grants for the upcoming academic year were awarded. These grants, valued at €25,000 per year per fellow, are awarded to individuals who have demonstrated a commitment to educational innovation and a desire to drive positive change in our university's educational landscape. The Fellowship is open to lecturers, Assistant professors, Associate professors, and Full professors, and it aims to empower them to carry out innovative educational projects that benefit our students and the broader academic community.
This year, four new Education Fellows who have proposed exciting and impactful projects were selected. These Fellows were nominated by the Deans of their faculties.
Education Fellows play a vital role in enhancing educational practices not only within our university but also in the broader (Engineering) Education Community. They are responsible for achieving their project goals and actively sharing their findings and insights with fellow educators, both within and outside TU Delft. Moreover, these Fellows serve as ambassadors for educational innovation, inspiring their colleagues to engage in similar initiatives.
This year's Education Fellows and their projects are:
Maarten Kroesen
Finding commonality in diversity: discovering shared supervision styles
Maarten's project addresses the challenge of effectively supervising bachelor students, a task that demands significant knowledge and skill. He aims to make this knowledge explicit by revealing various supervision styles among teachers, initiating discussions, and encouraging experimentation with different styles. Maarten will utilize the Q-method to identify viewpoints objectively, conduct workshops, and create an online tool for self-assessment. His results may also benefit bachelor and master student supervision across different faculties.
Mieke van der Bijl-Brouwer
Enabling thriving learning communities
Our project focuses on developing an infrastructure that promotes the emergence of learning communities for both students and staff. These communities are seen as essential for collective growth, mutual learning, and well-being. The project includes initiatives such as training, communication platforms, meeting spaces, and matching mechanisms. Initially implemented in IDE's master programs, the team will share their experiences and guidelines with the broader TU Delft community. The project will be executed by Haian Xue, Marieke Sonneveld, Mieke van der Bijl-Brouwer, and a team of students and staff.
Jos Zwanikken
Building the tracks for a diverse student population
Jos's project aims to create multiple tracks within single courses, catering to a diverse student population and cultivating transdisciplinarity. Building upon a successful experiment from the previous academic year, this project will offer students choices in terms of responsibility levels and course materials. Summative assessments will also be diversified to accommodate different skillsets and interests. Expert reviews and collaborations will inform these developments.
Giuseppe Radaelli
Let the penny drop! - Active multisensorial learning in large classes
The goal of this project is to activate students by letting them perform experiments, even in very large classes, and thereby increase the effectivity of their learning. When considering class sizes of 500-1000 students, which is the case of many of our BSc courses, it becomes challenging to activate all students because of logistical, economical, educational and time constrains. However, small scale experiments that focus on the grasping of a theoretical concept, can sometimes be developed with very little material and can really help to let a penny drop.
Congratulations to Mieke van der Bijl-Brouwer, Maarten Kroesen, Giuseppe Radaelli, Jos Zwanikken.