Educational themes

Get inspired! This guide provides an overview of useful teaching approaches and examples of good practices.

Each chapter provides a brief overview of relevant teaching approaches related to eight educational themes and clarifies how these approaches can be implemented in your teaching practice. For those who want to learn in more depth a selection of further reading is recommended.  In addition, the importance of the theme within the context of Higher Education, and the key aspects of implementation in practice are explained. Each theme is illustrated with examples of good practice at Leiden University and includes practical tips to get started with implementation.

Themes of the Higher Education Teaching & Learning Guide:

Additional overarching chapters