10-11-2026 –, Tango 1
How can we help lecturers quickly find the right educational support, inspiration and expertise without getting lost in an overload of information? During this session, we will share how Maastricht University is developing both physical and digital Teacher Information Points (TIPs) to help lecturers connect, collaborate and get answers to their educational questions more easily.
At Maastricht University, lecturers from different faculties, disciplines and education contexts often find it difficult to learn from one another or to make sense of the many support initiatives available to them. As a result, valuable knowledge and expertise can remain scattered across the university, while lecturers and support staff experience frustration and information overload.
As part of the UM CTL project, funded by the Dutch Ministry of Education and coordinated by Npuls, we* are working towards 2 complementary initiatives to better support lecturers:
- Faculty Teacher Information Points (TIPs): onsite, in person support points where lecturers can turn for advice, co-creation and knowledge sharing.
- A Teacher Information Portal (TIP): an online platform (hosted in Azure Cloud, also enabling to identify users and thus be as specific as possible and open up to information behind login) where staff can find relevant information and practical answers to their questions.
In the Pecha Kucha presentation, we will show what we have developed so far, experiences we already collected from several stakeholders and touch upon questions we still have and want your input on.
Of course, we will offer options to get in touch with us after the presentation, because we expect there will be more than can be shared in the 7 minutes we have in the session itself. So if you are a teacher hoping for such a portal, support staff looking for better ways to connect to teachers, a content owner looking for stronger ways to get your message to your audiences or portal builders yourselves, do come to our session and join our journey!
*In this project, we collaborate with CTL staff, TIP coordinators, the ICT department and students and teaching staff from several DACS Honours programmes at Maastricht University, who contributed to the development of the portal.
A well-trained chatbot helps teachers to quickly and accurately access the right information and the experiences of others to develop, deliver and evaluate their teaching.
Ik ben opgeleid tot onderwijspsycholoog en werk nu al meer dan twintig jaar op het gebied van instructional design en e-learning. Eerst als onderzoeker (gericht op het faciliteren van computerondersteund samenwerkend leren), daarna als e-learning consultant in welke rol ik docenten ondersteunde bij het herontwerp van hun onderwijs, vaak in het licht van digitale mogelijkheden.
Vanaf 2023 breng ik deze expertise in bij EDLAB, het Centre for Teaching and Learning aan de Universiteit Maastricht. Ik richt me op de impact van technologie op onderwijs en faciliteer diverse projecten en activiteiten. Vanuit dit perspectief vervul ik ook de rol van UM-programmacoördinator voor de deelname van de UM aan het landelijke Npuls programma (lid sleutelteam, projectleider CTL-project). Ik zal deze presentatie geven vanuit mijn rol als deelprojectleider Teacher Information Platform dat een van de ambities van het CTL-project is.
My name is Raul Parau, I am 21 years old and have been working at EDLAB since September 2025, focusing on the development of a Teacher Information Portal as part of my Knowledge Engineering@Work internship. Currently I am in my 3rd year of the Data Science & AI Bachelor at Maastricht University.
I'm really interested in integrating AI into tools in a way that actually makes sense, not just for the sake of it. Developing the Teacher Information Portal with EDLAB, has been the perfect chance to do so.