One of the most significant changes with regard to the use of internet is the transformation of passive information users into active actors, who increasingly create the content of the ¨World Wide Web¨ (WWW) themselves. Along with these changes, the economic impact of established media declines and experts …

Although sustainability is often discussed solely in ecological terms, it cannot be disconnected from the way humans behave in their social environment. This article presents a theoretical approach toward sustainability that takes a human behavior and knowledge view on sustainability as a starting point. …

Educational programs teaching entrepreneurial behaviour and knowledge are crucial to a vital and healthy economy. The concept of building a Communities of Practice (CoP) could be very promising. CoP’s are formed by people who engage in a process of collective learning in a shared domain of human endeavour …

In this chapter, we explore a case inwhich a problembased learning (PBL) course at Maastricht University is responsively evaluated. Within responsive evaluation, the value of an educational practice or educational regime is dependent on the multiple, sometimes conflicting, perspectives of stakeholders …

This study investigates the effects of a competency-oriented course and the effects of feedback training on students’ reflection skills. Thirty-one nursing students enrolled in a conventional course with lectures and assignments following a traditional test. Subsequently, they enrolled in a competency-oriented …

In an effort to gain better understanding of the assessment of prior informal and non-formal learning, this article explores assessors’ approaches to portfolio assessment. Through this portfolio assessment, candidates had requested exemptions from specific courses within an educational programme or admission …

Yo! Opera asked the Lectorate Lifelong Learning in Music to evaluate the project The Operaflat, which was part of the fourth edition of the Yo! Opera Festival in Utrecht, in 2007. During the project primary school pupils of the public primary school ‘Openbare Basisschool Overvecht’, residents of the …

Nepal and the Netherlands are two different countries. The Netherlands is lying in Europe and Nepal is a part of Asia (z.a. 2008). Also the education is a little different. In the Netherlands there are many types of schools; primary education, secondary education, special need primary education, special …

This article presents the results of a pilot of a cross-national learning process within the context of social work education. The pilot was carried out in the electronic environment by students from four European universities (Hogeschool Utrecht, Sheffield, Tartu and Vilnius). The analysis of the social …

Development is largely perceived as a process of building capacities, hence empowering people through training is to able to handle their affairs by them selves. The research examined the practical significance of action oriented training as a basic approach for sustainable management of natural resources …