Deze morgen vertelde mijn zoon dat over 100 jaar de mensheid is uitgestorven en hij maakte zich daar zorgen over. Onlangs kwamen wetenschappers met het bericht dat het ijs op de Noordpool nog nooit zo dun is geweest en dat er een toename is van Antarctisch zee-ijs. Dit zal binnen afzienbare tijd grote …

In order to lower dropout rates and stimulate student success in higher education, the Dutch government implemented a new law demanding that every higher education institute offer a matching activity to applying students. This article evaluates how students and teachers experience this matching activity. …

In the fall of 2015 the Research Group Open Educational Resources of Fontys University of Applied Sciences - School of ICT has conducted a survey into the production and/or reuse of OER and MOOCs by Dutch publicly financed Higher Education (HE) institutions: 15 research universities, 38 university of …

Often research, education and professional practice are positioned as different activities. Researchers, students and professionals are defined in subject-object relations. For my Phd. thesis I applied another perspective. In dialogue with School Social Workers, Bachelor Social Work students during their …

In this chapter competence-based education is studied with respect to the curriculum. It offers a review of what competence-based education entails; from the design of a competence-based curriculum (intended), to the interpretations of these curricula by stakeholders (implemented), and the actual outcomes …

Background: Assessment can have various functions, and is an important impetus for student learning. For assessment to be effective, it should be aligned with curriculum goals and of sufficient quality. Although it has been suggested that assessment quality in physical education (PE) is suboptimal, research …

Brick of the Future presents the results of three ‘design through making’ studios at the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture. Students designed and made new bricks produced with less energy or material, recycled materials and stacked or assembled the bricks innovatively. Each studio in cooperation …

The aim of this small explorative study was to get an impression of the participants’ views and understanding of the role of becoming a teacher in Swedish schools, realising the characteristic of pedagogy aimed for in the curriculum (in Lgr11 and Lgy), specifically the interaction patterns and student …

BACKGROUND: Today's nursing school applicants are considered “digital natives.” This study investigated students' views of new health care technologies. METHOD: In a cross-sectional survey among first-year nursing students, 23 common nursing activities and five telehealth nursing activities were …