At ErasmusX, we look for ways to improve students’ educational experience beyond Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR). We scout for tech-enabled learning approaches to facilitate our goal of improving education through innovation. As immersive technologies develop and become more efficient, their educational uses widen. We have identified that immersive technologies such…

One of the many ways that we strive to innovate education is by taking it outside of the classroom. In line with Redefining the Classroom, one of our community-oriented projects, the course “Career Skills: Inclusive Leadership” brought higher education students in contact with status holders (i.e. refugees with a temporary…

Back in 2020, early in ErasmusX’s existence, we started to notice an issue that students were struggling with. It had to do with the plethora of digital platforms offered by the university to students. The list is long, but the most prominent platforms were Osiris for grades, Canvas for courses…

With ChatGPT now available to everyone, students no longer have to think. So claims Owen Kichizo Terry in their recent piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Terry is a first-year undergraduate student. In a sea of pieces written by educators, their essay stands out as it comes not from…

Over the past few months, we have both facilitated and attended workshops on ChatGPT for university instructors. Some of the major concerns that pop up include assessment (do we need to modify it), plagiarism (how to detect it), and reliability of ChatGPT outputs (can we trust it). The simple answers…

Many of us no longer have the skills that used to be taken for granted: memorizing quotes, navigating without GPS, remembering phone numbers… On the other hand, there are skills that have become so common that we don’t even think of them as special. How many of us even remember…

Dear reader, This is a blogpost about my experience at ErasmusX. To start off, my experience was very pleasant and it gave me various insights that exceeded my expectations. I realized this only after I had to consider what I wanted to share with you. I even postponed writing the…

What if students learned about Design Thinking by engaging with inclusion and accessibility challenges experienced by students and staff at EUR? In a 3-week course on Design Thinking, 100+ students from the Master’s in Management of Innovation at RSM worked on prototyping solutions to enhance inclusion at EUR by listening…

Hi, my name is Manon Zamblé and I am the new intern at AICON (a joint project between AiPact & ErasmusX). Throughout the course of my internship, I will be writing blog posts about the ins and outs of the project in the hopes to make knowledge about artificial intelligence…