General Guidelines for ICO Course Lecturers and Coordinators
These guidelines cover a number of matters relevant for ICO course lecturers and coordinators:
ICO Educational Programme
Setup of a course
Practical organization
Location of the courses and facilities
Registration for courses
Language
Evaluation of the course
Organizational budget
Contact information
ICO Educational Programma
ICO courses are organized in close cooperation with the different research themes represented in ICO. Each year, thematic courses in several themes are organized, as well as introductory courses and methodological courses.
In the preparation of a new ICO course, as a rule, the ICO director of education will address the coordinator(s) of the thematic group under which responsibility the course is organized. Thus, if you are interested in offering a course as a part of the ICO educational programme, you should best contact the coordinators of the thematic group(s) in which you are active.
A course can be offered under responsibility of one or more thematic groups. It is a good tradition that courses are taught by a small team of teachers from different universities. It is also possible to invite a well-known lecturer from abroad to join the team of instructors.
Setup of a course
ICO'S thematic courses and methodological courses each have a study load of 100 hours. Only the introductory course has a study load of 200 hours.
Practical organization
Once invited to organize a course, you will be approached by the ICO secretary of education with the requests to provide an outline of the content and the setup of the course within a reasonable time period. You are requested to provide all relevant information through the template for ICO course information. Please take any deadlines into account to avoid disappointments of PhD students and criticism from ICO Management, student representatives and formal evaluation and quality assurance bodies.
The course description will be discussed and evaluated in the ICO Educational Committee (PhD student representatives from all universities represented in ICO) and in the ICO Management Team (staff member representatives). You will be informed about their feedback.
Location of the courses and facilities
Courses will be located at one of the ICO member-universities. The Themegroup Coordinator will organize the reservation of the rooms, catering (coffee, tea during breaks) and equipment (laptops, beamers, flip over etc.). Lunch will not be provided for.
Registration for courses
It is mandatory for students to register for a course. Students register for a course via the ICO website. Please refer students to this form if they express an interest in participating.
You are kindly requested to indicate a maximum number of participants. The ICO secretary of education will send you a list with all registered participants at any moment you make an inquiry.
A deadline for registration is set 6 weeks prior to the start of the course. After the deadline, ICO Education will contact PhD students who are accepted to take part in this course to confirm their participation within a week after the deadline. For further details, please consult our regulations for registration.
Language
ICO courses are taught in English. If there are no foreign students in face-to-face meetings, discussions may be held in Dutch.
Evaluation of the course
The ICO secretary of education will send you a standard evaluation form to be filled out by the participants. You may add additional questions if you like. Please inform the ICO secretary of education in due time, so that the form can be adapted.
You are requested to give the evaluation form to the participants at the end of the course, collect it immediately after and send it back to the ICO secretary of education. You will be informed about the results. The results will also be discussed in the ICO Education Committee and the ICO Management Team.
Organizational budget
The available budget for each course is € 1.000,- in total. This budget is meant for covering the rental of equipment, the catering costs and the travel expenses for the lecturers. ICO does not pay a fee to the lecturers.
ICO Education does not cover travel expenses and subsistence of the participants. There is no budget for get-together events such as lunches or dinners during face-to-face meetings.
Contact information
If you have any questions or if you need additional information, please do not hesitate to contact the ICO secretary of education:
Drs. Caroline Vonk
Centre For Educational Training, Assessment and Research (CETAR)
De Boelelaan 1105
1081 HV Amsterdam
Tel. +31 (0)20 5989244
Fax +31 (0)20 5989250
