Welcome to the FASoS Teaching & Learning Blog!
Teaching and learning are at the heart of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS). Revolving around the principles of Problem-Based Learning, teaching and learning is student-centred. Students are in charge of their own learning process. Staff act as facilitators rather than as traditional lecturers.
Societal changes, governmental demands and an increasingly diverse and international student body offer new challenges and opportunities for programmes in higher education. Among the many factors that come into play are retention rates, employability and increased pressure on students to excel.
This blog offers a platform for the exchange of ideas, best practices and opinions. Blog posts discuss particular challenges and situations in problem-based learning, novel ways of testing, use of digital tools, interactive lecturing, and so on.
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Latest blog When Tullio Viola started student supervision at FASoS a couple of years ago, he noticed something he had not anticipated. Students were paying a lot of attention to making sure their paper followed a specific structure. Ironically, however, this commendable attention to structure sometimes conflicted with their ability to think about the subject matter of their research, thereby fueling some degree of confusion. Why was it so?
