“Teaching is both an art and a science” (Harrison & Coll, 2008 p.1). Good teaching excites students and cultivates their curiosity to learn more than they are asked. But what if students’ blank faces tell you that the teaching did not land, what can you do? Using an analogy or metaphor to explain the …

De energietransitie zorgt op alle fronten voor beweging. Vanzelfsprekend wordt er dan allereerst gedacht aan de overgang naar groene energie in Nederland. Hiervoor zijn andere en/of nieuwe ondergrondse netwerken nodig. De aanleg hiervan is eveneens aan verandering onderhevig en dus kan dit ook zorgen …

Context When the pandemic hit the world, teachers were forced to change their education from onsite to virtual overnight Understandably, teaching quality decreased in the beginning, as there was little experience in how to adapt the educational design Zuyd University of Applied Sciences ( recognized …

De wereld waarin we ons bevinden ontwikkelt snel. Organisaties moeten zich aanpassen aan de veranderingen in hun omgeving. Wat er vandaag toe doet kan morgen weer heel anders zijn. Trendwatcher Igor Beuker bevestigt dit in een interview in Het Parool, waarin hij aangeeft dat organisaties twee opties …

The pace of introduction of new technology and thus continuous change in skill needs at workplaces, especially for the engineers, has increased. While digitization induced changes in manufacturing, construction and supply chain sectors may not be felt the same in every sector, this will be hard to …

De aandacht van accountants voor vaktechniek is afhankelijk van een aantal zaken: 1) de stand van de economie, 2) de ontwikkelingen rondom wet- en regelgeving en 3) de omvang van het accountantskantoor/de accountantsorganisatie. Voor de ‘vaktechneuten’ zijn naast hard-skills ook soft-skills bijzonder …

Background and purpose Within Northwest European Welfare states, there is a growing need for all social work professions to substantiate their work with research. The earliest notions of social street work origins from the end of the18th century by the British Salavation Army (Mikkonen et al., 2007). …

From the article: "The goal of higher professional education is to enable students to develop into reflective practitioners, having both a firm theoretical knowledge base as well as appropriate, professional attitudes and skills. Learning at the workplace is crucial in professional education, because …

Een onderzoek naar de soft skills van de repressieve brandweermedewerkers in het kader van duurzame inzetbaarheid en kwaliteitsontwikkelingen.

Background In 2015, Amsterdam became part of the WHO Age Friendly City community, thereby accepting the responsibility to work towards a more age friendly Amsterdam. To study senior citizens’ needs and wishes concerning the age friendliness of their neighbourhood, the municipality asked the Amsterdam …