Challenges

Develop a solution that connects students with an innovative idea to the available knowledge, expertise and networks within the institution and brings them into contact with other entrepreneurial students so that multidisciplinary teams can be formed.

Develop a solution that supports collaboration on- and sharing of knowledge products, and increases the innovation and the learning capacity of the parties involved.

Develop a solution that can recognize copyrighted images in open educational resources to reduce the use of images without permission and to make sure additional charges can be prevented. 

Develop a solution that tests and stimulates students in a motivating way in acquiring, retaining and expanding their general professional knowledge and provides insight into the progress during their study career.

Develop a solution that enables students to train their softskills in unexpected stressfull situations as part of a team using Virtual Reality.

Contribute to setting up non-standard educational processes through a workflow solution linked to the learning environment in which different roles can participate. 

Develop a flexible solution for planning and organizing assessment interviews, initiated by the student and including several parties and resources (ie. teacher, work field assessor, room booking) in an efficient way.

Develop a solution that allows the Skills Centre to efficiently tailor its service offerings to internal and external users’ needs on an ongoing basis.

Develop a digital study selection tool that provides tailored guidance to prospective students on in making the right choice for a fitting study programme by helping them get to know themselves better.

Develop an online environment that supports lecturers in designing blended learning education programs with the help of a database of supporting information.

Contribute to a solution where students are able to work collaboratively in a cloud environment they have continuous access to and gives them the opportunity to safely practice in a realistic environment.

Develop a solution that enables the connection between external partners and challenge-based learning initiatives within the Utrecht University to link societal challenges to multidisciplinary student teams.

Develop or contribute to a digital solution that enables teachers and students sector-wide to develop and implement cybersecurity education in co-creation.

Contribute to a solution that coaches students on academic writing skills throughout their studies so that they can develop their skills to reach the desired level of academic writing.

Contribute to the increase of response rates to acceptable levels of course and teacher evaluations to gather usable feedback and data which can be used to improve the quality of education.

Contribute to a solution with which lecturers can efficiently mark open questions for exams with very large quantities of students without losing the quality of the grading and the feedback possibilities it offers.