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VU EduNews & Stories

Last updated on 29 April 2025
The VU EduNews & Stories newsletter reaches over 5,500 readers every two weeks with the latest education news, inspiring stories, and upcoming events. This way, the VU community stays connected with each other and with the next chapter in education.

Publication dates VU EduNews & Stories
The VU EduNews & Stories is published fortnightly on Tuesdays. You can expect the newsletter in your mailbox on the following dates:  

  • 29 April 2025
  • 13 May 2025
  • 27 May 2025

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Previous editions VU EduNews & Stories
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The news from VU EduNews & Stories can also be found on the Teaching at VU Amsterdam platform, and on the related .

Previous editions VU EduNews & Stories 

  • Academic year 2024/2025

    • - “The world is changing, and so are we”: FGB vision, Npuls explained & student teacher myths
    • - From Hot Moments to insight, shaping VU together & new faculty
    • - Strike, overloaded curricula & don’t fear AI
    • - Time for an academic countervoice & education award winners
    • - Enhance your lectures with role-playing, recognition junior lecturers & the power of representation
    • - Winter blues tips, interactive teaching methods & student learning styles
    • - Learning from students during lunch, Sociology revamped & teaching team workshops
    • - University as a sacred place, education of tomorrow, & new AI tool
    • - New year’s resolutions from your VU colleagues, genuine online connection & tips for open education
    • - AI recommendations approved, mental health students under pressure & junior lecturer’s exciting start
    • - VU stands strong for audit, fraud-free assessments & job-ready students
    • - National demonstration: stand up for education, discover the Quality Plan & new AI assistant
    • - Student-teacher teamwork, podcast & new VU toolkit
    • - Politically neutral education, shorter academic year & new Canvas feature
    • - Visit from MP's, new Evalytics features & celebrating educators
    • - AI literacy in education, sharing opinions as a lecturer & student well-being
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  • Academic year 2023/2024

    • - Summer must-reads, ‘hot moments’ podcast & VU signs Knowledge Equity Agreement
    • - SpringLab wins NOP, matching via VU Connects & step-by-step guide to buzz groups
    • - Marketplace for educational excursions, toolkit of the month & role-playing in education
    • - Record number Comenius grants, how to receive valuable feedback & the importance of emotions in education
    • - Canvas contract extended, development path for junior lecturers & AI experiment
    • - Easily improve studying, tackle free-riding & new AI tool: MS Copilot
    • - Active learning with AI, update pilots Smarter Academic Year & Education Showcase
    • - VU Education Analytics team kicks off, frontrunner open education & Rashmi Kusurkar new chairperson NVMO
    • - Increase evaluation response rate, SBE develops AI guidelines & citizen science in education and research 
    • - Winners VU Education Awards, opening Library Tower & the 50th didactic tip!
    • - Last call: VU Education Day 2024, tips for neurodivergent students & VU Technology Centre
    •  - VU-UvA AI Taskforce, winners SoTL Grant announced & Kaltura becomes Panopto
    •  - VR in the Dissection Room, updates Teaching at VU Amsterdam & 3 well-being initiatives
    • - Sign up now for VU Education Day, NRO Grant for educational research & how to VU proof teach
    • - Teach your students to use ChatGPT as a personal teacher, SoTL Grant & 10 years of HIV studies
    • - Beyond textbooks: Mixed Classroom, reading tip & choose your workshop
    • - Meet the Future of Teaching! Video: ChatGPT & How to engage students in education
    • - How to fail? A 360-degree view of your teaching & Students as Partners
    • - Inclusion in medical education, tips from education pioneers & recap education events
    • - How the Student Desk managed this summer's top rush, Education Vision with video & reading tip
    • - Educational improvements, generative AI & self-help kit Group Work and more

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The team behind VU EduNews & Stories consists of:

  • Iris Hasime Baele - cross-channel editor
  • Loes Hooijenga - web editor
  • Imane Allilouch - student employee

Do you have any questions or remarks about VU EduNews & Stories?
Please contact us at edunews@vu.nl

Portrait photo of (from left to right) Iris Hasime Baele, Loes Hooijenga and Imane Allilouch

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