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Learning and Working, a new stimulus for Problem-Based Learning
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Written by Lucia Geurts
Friday, 01 January 2010 00:00
Wim Gijselaers: “Back to the roots of Maastricht University” A practicing doctor who wants some specific training, a lawyer who wants to obtain a doctorate, a foreign student who has to eliminate a deficiency in his educational package to be admitted to the university - all of these prospective students…
E-learning for boundless education
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Written by Femke Kools, Lucia Geurts
Friday, 01 January 2010 00:00
Study in Maastricht, using a laptop in North Korea Education is no longer defined by borders of place, time or age. During the last decades, higher education has come to encompass the globe and is available almost anywhere. E-learning supports independent studying in any place and at any time in…
There’s no such thing as an objective test, only a reliable one
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Written by Femke Kools
Tuesday, 17 April 2007 00:00
Progressive research into information-rich testing programmes How do you judge whether a medical student is or is going to be a good doctor? This question will be explored by Professor Lambert Schuwirth, who was appointed chair of ‘Education and research into innovative forms of testing’ at the Education Development and…
Every European citizen an electronic portfolio?
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Written by Femke Kools
Friday, 10 September 2004 00:00
UM scientists participate in European project with education portfolios Being able to prove your capacities without formal education. Easily explaining your educational past to an educational institution. That is all possible with an education portfolio. Universiteit Maastricht (UM) works together with several partners in a European electronic portfolio project, called…
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