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On 16 April 2026, the UM XR network brought together staff from across faculties and expertise centres at the new XR Lab at the Inner City University Library to strengthen collaboration and explore a more connected approach to immersive technologies in education and research.

By designing a card game, maths tutors at the Department of Advanced Computing Sciences increase their student’s engagement with linear algebra.

In Honours+, students gain their first experience in approaching (global) challenges in an interdisciplinary setting, under the professional guidance of staff members from Maastricht University.

When does helping students start to get in the way of their learning? Inspired by The Courage to Be Disliked, Lena Gromotka explores why stepping in too quickly can backfire, and what it means to support students in ways that help them grow.

Across UM, colleagues are experimenting with a range of approaches, including extended reality (XR), to explore how particular learning goals might be supported in new ways.

On 19 March, colleagues from university Centres for Teaching & Learning (CTLs) met at Radboud University for a thematic day focused on strengthening collaboration and clarifying shared priorities.

Diana Van Elssen has recently started at EDLAB in the role of Communications & Event Support Officer.

Feeling stuck happens. At Student-Meet Vol. 13, UM students came together at EDLAB to explore how inspiration works and how small actions can help get things moving again.

AI Café was created as a student-led community for open, insightful conversations about artificial intelligence in education. The first meeting on 26 February 2026 brought that idea to life with students sharing their experiences with AI.

Following his keynote at the Sixth Global Citizenship Education Symposium, Jason Goulah continued the conversation in a discussion with an EDLAB research assistant, focusing on a central question: how can education remain meaningfully human in an age of artificial intelligence?