2.2 Educational Innovation
The university is ambitious when it comes to educational innovation. Lecturers wish to be supported even more and better than before in innovating, improving, and developing their education. With this, the university opts for innovation and professionalization with special attention to blended learning. Blended learning at Tilburg University stands for merging face-to-face and online education whereby both forms reinforce each other, and the student is central. In doing so, the goal is to develop education that uses IT for efficient, effective, and flexible learning, with greater learning efficiency for students and greater satisfaction for lecturers and students. To translate these ambitions into concrete actions, a committee headed by Sander Bax was established in 2022. Over the past year, this committee developed a multi-year blended learning program, which further defines blended learning, defines principles for good education, describes an ambitious timeline, and proposes to structure the Tilburg University Network of Educational Development and Innovation (TUNED IN). In the past year, significant steps have already been taken to implement this vision within a number of degree programs.
