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The Maastricht University Centre for International Cooperation in Academic Development (MUNDO)
Universiteit Maastricht (or Maastricht University) is specifically known for its experience and expertise related to education (problem-based learning, active learning, skills training, etc.). Maastricht University has over 25 years of experience with implementing problem-based learning in medicine, the health sciences, law, economics, management, business studies, public administration, informatics and social sciences.
In addition, Maastricht University has intensively researched problem-based learning and related methodologies, contributing to their theoretical basis as well as documenting practice. As a result, Maastricht University has become an internationally acclaimed resource centre of knowledge and experience on student-centred learning.
A significant part of its international cooperation, services and consultancies relate to this experience and expertise.
MUNDO is Universiteit Maastricht’s office that exclusively focuses on cooperation with partner institutions in the developing world, with the aim of capacity building in education and/or research.
The expertise that Maastricht University, through MUNDO, can make available includes:
- Assessment of the possibilities and feasibility for introducing educational innovations in a particular context
- The elaboration of a strategy to introduce educational innovation in that particular context
- Change management in relation to introducing educational innovations
- Curriculum design
- Design of educational modules: how to construct problems and assignments that will trigger students’ learning activities
- Faculty development: how to inform teachers and encourage them to experiment with innovative approaches to learning, how to sustain innovations
- Skills training: how to set up appropriate facilities for skills training; how to set up a skills training programme that is integrated in the curriculum; how to train skills; how to train skilled teachers; how to assess students’ performance
- Student assessment: student-centred learning is incompatible with traditional knowledge-based examinations. Maastricht University has a rich experience with alternative approaches to student assessment
- Programme evaluation and appropriate adjustment of programme units
- Learning resources: how to start and manage a learning resource centre that supports student-centred learning
- IT applications for individual self-directed learning
- IT applications for student group work
- Innovation in university organization and management: how to change from a department-based management model to models more suitable for multidisciplinary education and research
- International networking: how to organize international cooperation in order to gain optimal benefits for your own institution
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