The world is rapidly changing because of ecological, social, geopolitical changes and digital transformation. For example, the global pandemic has accelerated the digital transformation and encouraged more online learning and working. Furthermore, reducing the speed of climate change is one of the major …

In het voorjaar van 2021 heeft Zestor het lectoraat organisatieontwerp en -verandering gevraagd om te onderzoeken hoe het gebruik van de werkdrukmethodiek zo effectief mogelijk ingezet kan worden. De methodiek is immers effectief als betreffende interventies bijdragen aan het realiseren van het beoogde …

Aiming for increased accessibility and adaptability, higher educational institutes are making their curricula more flexible, offering students more freedom to choose what courses they want to take. Making a well-informed choice out of many possible elective courses is difficult, because it requires the …

Dit rapport bevat de resultaten van een kwantitatief onderzoek naar tijdsbesteding van docenten in het HBO. Dit in relatie tot ervaren werkdruk en de mate waarin docenten hun werk af kunnen krijgen. Het onderzoek is in opdracht van de cao-partijen uitgevoerd door Zestor in samenwerking met het lectoraat …

Empathy is an important competence for communication professionals. This article investigates two aspects of empathy in an educational setting: the validity of self versus other assessments and the manifestation of empathy in communicative behaviors. Communication students were given a mediating role …

Teachers’ assessment literacy affects the quality of assessments and is, therefore, an essential part of teachers’ competence. Recent studies define assessment literacy as a dynamic, contextual and social construct, situated in practice and mediated by teachers’ identity and conceptions of assessment. …

In this chapter, we present a perspective on the professionalisation of students in higher vocational education, which relates their life orientation to professional and societal values and beliefs. In a teaching programme at HU UAS Utrecht, inspired by Biesta’s notion of a pedagogy of interruption, …

To meet society’s changing demands, the responsive development of curricula is vital, and curriculum developers need to increasingly foresee and incorporate changes into their curricula in a timely manner. However, responsive curriculum development is a complex problem for curriculum developers in vocational …