June 16, 2026

Open Education menu

We created a ready-to-use menu with 17 different Open Education practices to be implemented in your education. With each practice turned into its own dish and recipe, you can easily see how the practice can be implemented, with its difficulty level and examples. The goal is to provide you with ideas and examples on how to implement Open Science practices into your education. Or use the menu as a starting point for conversations about open educational practices with colleagues! Already an expert? The menu can also be used for a 1-hour workshop on Open Educational practices for others interested in Open Science. Let the participants select a dish from the menu they are interested in, and help them to adapt the dish so they can turn their own ideas into real practices.

June 9, 2026

Handout - TR3CA: Evaluation of your (AI-assisted) literature search

These are the Transparency & Reproducibility, Relevancy, Reliability, Coverage, Accuracy (TR3CA) evaluation criteria to evaluate whether results from an (AI-assisted) literature search are trustworthy and appropriate for your research.

March 15, 2026

Beyond Google Scholar

Students often struggle to find relevant literature for their thesis projects. The main aim of this tutorial is two-fold, namely to teach students (1) how to find relevant literature using various databases and search strategies and (2) how to critically reflect on the role of digital databases and Generative AI tools in their search process. The package includes a lecturer’s manual and two versions of the same tutorial: one with steps in Excel and one without. The tutorial can be delivered as an in-class workshop (2–3 hours) or assigned as a take-home assignment. The databases and tools used in this tutorial include Zotero, Google Scholar, Project MUSE, JSTOR, ChatGPT, and Excel. The tutorial can be used in any higher education classroom and is particularly suitable for courses that prepare students for writing a BA or MA thesis.

February 26, 2026

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October 2, 2025

Come to Your Senses

Seeing, tasting, smelling, hearing, feeling. After early education, sensory skills are rarely trained directly, but most professionals naturally develop them with practice. Come to Your Senses provides direct exercises that will help sharpen your and your students’ senses so that they can utilize them in their professional and personal lives. Senses-based learning is a pedagogical methodology that focuses on exploring and developing sensory awareness and skills, and critically reflecting on their importance in education, research and professional practice. Based on the research carried out at Maastricht University between 2021 and 2024, Emilie Sitzia, Elene Kadagidze and Tânia A. Cardoso show how to use your senses in a fun, visual manner. From Cookie Explosions and Visual Journalism to Sensory Mapping, with unique exercises different experts this guide demonstrates how to implement senses-based learning in your classes or everyday life. This open textbook functions as a manual on how to implement senses-based learning within and outside academia. Come to Your Senses re-balances and reasserts the importance of sensory skills in tertiary education and professional practice through interventions in the existing curriculum in the form of designed learning units, learning resources and activities.

September 2, 2025

Intro to Open Science

Created for the GSLS Master introduction Days 2025, Utrecht University. This lecture will introduce you to the principles and practices of Open Science, a global movement aimed at making scientific research more accessible, transparent, and collaborative. You will learn why open science matters for accelerating discoveries, improving research quality, and enhancing reproducibility. Key topics include open access publishing, open and FAIR data, preprints, open peer review, and sharing research tools and methods. The session will also cover practical tips on how you can integrate open science practices into your own research from the start of your graduate journey. By embracing open science, you contribute to a more inclusive and impactful scientific community.

July 1, 2025

e-learning module - Evaluate your information sources

Short description: In this e-learning module, you'll learn how to evaluate the relevance and trustworthiness of information sources. Expected time to complete: 45 minutes. Learning goals: After finishing this e-learning module, you'll be able to evaluate information sources on trustworthiness and relevance; identify predatory journals and publishers; verify whether a publication has been retracted; and formulate and apply inclusion/exclusion criteria to screen scientific publications. Use the link to get direct access to the e-learning module Research Data Download the Xerte deployment ZIP if you want to make modifications to the e-learning module for your own institution.

July 1, 2025

Presentation Grey Literature

PowerPoint presentation Workshop Grey Literature

May 1, 2025

Scientific integrity and Open science in level 1 courses at UCU

At University College Utrecht, we teach about scientific integrity and open science as early as the first methodology course the students take. In this powerpoint, there's a small collection of materials that can be used in an English-taught program to provide a starting point to educate students on these topics.

December 2, 2024

Libguide Scopus

Scopus is a search engine containing abstracts of articles and book chapters in all subject areas. It also contains the references from and citations to those articles and book chapters. This libguide explains how to use Scopus.