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April 23, 2026

Curriculum Support Roadmap

The curriculum roadmap shows how the Teaching and Learning Centre – Project Office Learning Arrangements has visualised the adaptive support service for curriculum redesign. It focuses on the level of a BSc or MSc programme. This visual can be used to inspire a redesign process and to identify major building blocks to consider during this process.

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Anne Velthorst, Roos Köhler

October 26, 2021

Open Education webinar (2021 - slides)

This set of slides is used for the interactive workshop "Redesign, enrich and transform your course with open educational resources" developed and delivered at the University of Groningen (UG). Promo text: Intended audience: University teachers, PhD students with teaching responsibilities, education specialists Duration: 2 hours + 30-minute Q&A session Format: Interactive webinar Platform: Blackboard Collaborate The subject of open educational resources (OER) is becoming more prominent in higher education, especially in times of transition to Open Science and a need to switch to blended forms of teaching and learning. As an instrumental tool in reusing existing and creating innovative learner-centered resources, OER are an interesting area to explore for UG teachers. Would you like to try new and interesting things in your teaching? Do you need some inspiration, practical tools and support with redesigning your courses, making them more open and up-to-date? Information specialists from the University of Groningen Library and didactic experts from Education Support & Innovation will host a webinar focused on helping you redesign and enrich your course (in whole or in part) with open materials. During this interactive webinar, we will work alongside you and provide: Didactic advice Expertise in the area of open education and copyright Tips for finding high-quality open educational resources Help with exploring all the cool things that can be done with reusable and open materials Course redesign tools Platform for discussions Inspiration Your participation won’t just benefit your own course and development – you will also help us better understand your needs, so we can work on developing new services and infrastructure to make your teaching life easier. Learning Outcomes After completing this workshop, you will be able to: Understand how to use OER, basics of the copyright and open licenses Search strategically for and evaluate OER most relevant to your subject area Design appropriate teaching and learning activities using OER

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Mira Buist-Zhuk, Frederiek van Rij

October 26, 2021

Open Education webinar (2021 - recording)

This is a recording of the interactive workshop "Redesign, enrich and transform your course with open educational resources" developed and delivered at the University of Groningen (UG) on 26 October 2021. Promo text: Intended audience: University teachers, PhD students with teaching responsibilities, education specialists Duration: 2 hours + 30-minute Q&A session Format: Interactive webinar Platform: Blackboard Collaborate The subject of open educational resources (OER) is becoming more prominent in higher education, especially in times of transition to Open Science and a need to switch to blended forms of teaching and learning. As an instrumental tool in reusing existing and creating innovative learner-centered resources, OER are an interesting area to explore for UG teachers. Would you like to try new and interesting things in your teaching? Do you need some inspiration, practical tools and support with redesigning your courses, making them more open and up-to-date? Information specialists from the University of Groningen Library and didactic experts from Education Support & Innovation will host a webinar focused on helping you redesign and enrich your course (in whole or in part) with open materials. During this interactive webinar, we will work alongside you and provide: Didactic advice Expertise in the area of open education and copyright Tips for finding high-quality open educational resources Help with exploring all the cool things that can be done with reusable and open materials Course redesign tools Platform for discussions Inspiration Your participation won’t just benefit your own course and development – you will also help us better understand your needs, so we can work on developing new services and infrastructure to make your teaching life easier. Learning Outcomes After completing this workshop, you will be able to: Understand how to use OER, basics of the copyright and open licenses Search strategically for and evaluate OER most relevant to your subject area Design appropriate teaching and learning activities using OER

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Mira Buist-Zhuk, Frederiek van Rij

June 19, 2022

Design for critical reflection on Social Media Platforms

This exercise uses a value-sensitive design approach towards redesigning social media platforms for a different purpose: from being predominantly spaces of entertainment, social media platforms can become spaces of epistemic engagement with information in a fruitful manner by fostering the user’s critical reflection in engaging with information found on social media. The exercise challenges students to redesign user interactions on social media platforms in such a way that explicitly fosters reflective thinking for users about the information that they find online. Note: this exercise can be used in a suite of exercises on social media platform design, together with the Fake news exercise and the Design for information quality exercise.

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Lavinia Marin

November 7, 2024

Open Education general workshop (2024)

The latest version of our Open Educational Resources workshop, presented by the University of Groningen Library and Education Support and Innovation Department. This workshops lasts roughly 2,5 hours, and tackles the five basic OER compentencies as outlined by the UNESCO (Familiarity, Finding, Using, Creating, Sharing OER). The workshop is primarily meant for teachers looking to broadly familiarize themselves with the topic of Open Education and Open Educational Resources. The slides include a number of group discussion questions and assignments for participants to follow. For the quiz assignment, a link to the Google Form with the quiz is present. Making a private copy of the form is needed to ensure others do not change it. For the assignment on the benefits of Open Education, the playing cards for the OE game created by the European Network for Open Education Librarians (ENOEL) are needed. The powerpoint with these paying cards is also included.

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Mira Buist-Zhuk, Frederiek van Rij, Martijn Blikmans-Middel, Angelos Konstantinidis

May 23, 2023

Open Education workshop (2023)

The latest version of our Open Educational Resources workshop, presented by the University of Groningen Library and Education Support and Innovation Department. This workshops lasts roughly 2,5 hours, and tackles the basics of what OER are, where they can be found, and how they can be used. It also introduces the topic of Open Pedagogy, and gives information how to design a course around OER and Open Pedagogy. Lastly, it gives an overview of the Open Science programme 1.0 of the UG. The slides include a number of group discussion questions and assignments for participants to follow.

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Mira Buist-Zhuk, Frederiek van Rij, Martijn Blikmans-Middel, Angelos Konstantinidis

March 27, 2023

MicroLab Open Educational Resources 2023

Our University of Groningen Microlab on Open Educational Resources. This presentation is part of a Microlab, a more active workshop setting with more time for participants to engage with OER and course design. It briefly recaps earlier studied information on Open Education and OER, before providing space to both look for OER, and adapt them to the courses the participants provide at the University of Groningen. The assignments interspliced between the information slides are focused on reflecting on the search, evaluation, adaptation, and creation processes of OER. The workshop was provided by specialists from the library and education support and innovation departments.

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Mira Buist-Zhuk, Martijn Blikmans-Middel, Frederiek van Rij

June 20, 2022

Tinkering with healthcare technologies. Interactive redesign of bio-medical artefacts from a crip techno-science perspective

In this exercise, students will engage with ethical issues in the design and innovation of healthcare technologies through a hands-on interactive tinkering workshop. Using a wide variety of scrap materials, students collaborating in small groups will alter existing healthcare technical artefacts in an effort to promote the values of inclusivity, accessibility, and social justice, and to question ableist assumptions surrounding medical artefacts. The interactive hands-on workshop is deepened through an engagement with stakeholder testimonials as well as crip techno-science and Warm Technology theories.

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Janna van Grunsven, Samantha Marie Copeland, Trijsje Franssen, Lavinia Marin, Cristina Richie

June 5, 2022

Design for informational quality on social media platforms - Teacher version

This exercise uses a value-sensitive design approach towards redesigning social media platforms from spaces of entertainment to spaces of epistemic engagement with information in fruitful manner. The exercise introduces students to the idea of informational quality, elaborates on the parameters to look for in the design of existing platforms and then stimulates the reflection and imagination by asking students to redesign some features of these platforms in view of making the platforms truth-conducive and knowledge-building.

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Lavinia Marin

October 24, 2025

Glass Sustainability: Rethink

In this video, Angelica Rota explains the "Rethink" strategy for reducing the environmental impact of glass by moving from a linear to a circular economy. The video outlines two main approaches. The first is to rethink the supply chain by increasing the circularity of float glass, avoiding low-value downcycling, establishing systems to collect post-consumer glass waste, and preferring selective deconstruction over demolition. The second approach is to redesign glass products for disassembly, ensuring components like those in an insulating glass unit can be easily separated at end-of-life using reversible connections instead of permanent adhesives. While redesigning complex products presents challenges, these strategies are crucial for creating a sustainable, circular glass supply chain. The video was produced by the Open GLASSroom project. Special thanks to Angelica Rota for contributing to the Open GLASSroom OER collection. The creation of these resources has been (partially) funded by the ERASMUS+ grant program of the European Union under grant no. 2022-1-DE01-KA220-HED-000089750. Neither the European Commission nor the project's national funding agency DAAD are responsible for the content or liable for any losses or damage resulting of the use of these resources.

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Angelica Rota