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Faculty of Law
Meeting of the Directors General for Higher Education
Student centred learning: new challenges
Cyprus 2012
Faculty of Law
Excellence in Teaching
• Problem-based learning as a model
• Development of evaluation methods
• The use of new technologies
• Teaching excellent student by stimulating their research participation
Faculty of Law
Maastricht University (UM)
• Founded 1976
• Medicine, Law (1981/82), Economics (1986) Now 6 faculties including social sciences and arts, psychology and
humanities and sciences
All faculties use PBL
BUT enormous changes in student population since the establishment of the UM
From a Dutch to an International student population Use of English as the main language of instruction at a Dutch
university Consequences for PBL Consequences of technical innovations on the learning process
Faculty of Law
Problem-based learning (PBL) as a model
Which are core elements of PBL?
What type of students do you need?
What type of professors do you need?
Faculty of Law
Core elements of PBL
• Student centered• Small groups• Interactive • Case based
Students should be in charge of the learning process
Faculty of Law
Core elements of PBL
• Learning by doing (skills)• Learning by teaching peers• Activate prior knowledge• Intrinsic motivation
Active student participationSelection of students
Faculty of Law
What is PBL at the Law Faculty of Maastricht University?
Is it different to PBL at other faculties?
Faculty of Law
Philosophy of PBL
• Make a core “Philosophy of PBL” in each Faculty/University
• Update this every 3 years with some “fresh staff members”
• communicate and evaluate key elements and formulate PBL challenges
Faculty of Law
What is done to improve PBL
- Course evaluations
- Increase of self study hours - written preparations
- Staff development
- Student involvement in improvement of PBL
- Selection procedure students – matching and binding numerus fixus and selection at the port
Faculty of Law
Student involvement
• By student evaluations• By representation in:- Planning Groups of courses- Programme Committees- Faculty Board/Faculty Council• By alumni (alumni council)
Faculty of Law
Use of new technologies
• Blackboard (or other electronic learning environments)
• Digital teaching and examination
• Co-teaching across borders • Distance-learning
Faculty of Law
Relationship with research
• Involvement of students in research • Honours programmes
• Marble: extended thesis, organization of a academic conferences, publications of papers/thesis:Bachelor level
• Premium: involvement of students of various faculties in setting-up business and multi-disciplinary research projects: Master level
Faculty of Law
Relationship with professional life
• Internships• Moot Courts
• working at a real law firm, legal clinic in the faculty
• Alumni network and alumni council
Faculty of Law
Excellence in teaching
• Finding the best method for each faculty • but also for each individual student
• Creating interest for the own field of expertise by involving students in research projects
• Awareness on the life-long learning process – new digital teaching methods
Faculty of Law
Excellent teaching: Professional perspective
• Excellent teaching must have professional consequences
Selection criteria of professors not only based on the passed performance in research but also on quality of teaching
Teaching Awards on faculty and university level
Budgetary insentives for innovative teaching proposals