Blended bootcamp

The Course Design Bootcamp is an exclusive opportunity for you to immerse yourself in educational innovation for two days. You will collaborate with colleagues and experts to improve your academic education through practical and hands-on activities.

The bootcamp is organized multiple times a year. You can reach out to the blended learning developer at your faculty to learn about the next available dates.

The Course Design Bootcamp aims to provide teachers and educators with inspiration, flow, and focus to improve the teaching they provide and the learning they facilitate. Together with educational experts, advisors, learning developers, and teaching assistants, ideas for development will be refined and various solutions explored. Feedback from peers and experts will strengthen your approach and guide you towards a solid action plan that can be executed after these intensive days of collaboration. 

You can expect the bootcamp to provide you with:

• a concrete and practical design for educational improvement of your own course(s);
• a plan for developing and implementing your improved course;
• an expanded network of colleagues and experts who can also support you in further developments after the event.

Who can participate?

In total four course teams can participate in each bootcamp. A course team consists of at least two lecturers (e.g., the course manager, a lecturer, a PhD candidate) and someone who represents the student perspective and ideally has taken the course themselves, like a teaching assistant or senior student. 

Practicalities

Participation in this unique opportunity is free of charge, including hotel accommodation and catering. To apply, you are requested to write a short proposal (maximum one A4). The proposal will be assessed based on the following criteria:

• Improvement of education: how do you want to improve (a part of) your campus course?
• Effect on student learning: how will your project outcomes affect student learning?
• Applicability in teaching: how will you and your colleagues use the project outcomes in your courses?
• Course team: who will be involved in your course team? A course team consists of at least two lecturers (e.g., the course manager, a lecturer, a PhD candidate), a student assistant. A blended learning developer will also be available to support your course team.

How to participate?

1. Write a short proposal of one A4. Make sure that the four aforementioned points are included. For support, please reach out to your faculty blended learning adviser.
2. Submit your proposal to your blended learning advisor. This can be done year-round; we will consider your proposal for the next available bootcamp.
3. Await outcome of the proposal submission. We will inform you at least one month before the bootcamp date if your proposal is accepted.

For any further questions please reach out to the blended learning advisor at your faculty.