The target article describes an interesting study, which provides some challenging findings regarding athletes' pathway to excellence. The suggested links between critical life events, need for success, personal characteristics, and eventual performance level make sense from a psychodynamic perspective. …

Gives an overview of my research as a visiting scholar at The Boston College Center for International Higher Education. This research classifies these obstacles and enablers in four categories: disciplinary, external, internal and personal.

This article explores the criteria for ‘good research’ employed by lecturers in traditional universities and institutes of higher professional education. The implementation of research-related activities in the latter created a repositioning of both types of Dutch institutions, similar as in many European …

On this website I blog about Quantified Self, health, statistics, wearables, self-tracking. Relevant experiments, issue's, thoughts, and idea's are discussed.

Reflection is considered necessary and beneficial within career learning and is deemed to be a condition for successful career-identity development. Indeed, reflection is generally seen as a key competency in learning how to respond effectively to a complex and dynamic post-modern world in which individuals …

Dit verslag beschrijft de ontwikkeling van een bordspel, in te zetten in de revalidatie van kinderen met Developmental Coordination Disorder. Het UMCG Centrum voor Revalidatie in Haren, hierna genoemd het CvR, wil door middel van gamificatie het revalidatieproces verbeteren. Het behaalde motorische resultaat …

The challenges faced by business and society in the rapidly-changing 21st century require skills and capabilities that our education system, essentially fit-for-purpose in the 19th Century, struggles to provide. In this brief paper, presented at the Rotterdam TEDX-Rotterdam Clean Tech Delta forum on …

Introduction: Losing items is a time-consuming occurrence in nursing homes that is ill described. An explorative study was conducted to investigate which items got lost by nursing home residents, and how this affects the residents and family caregivers. Method: Semi-structured interviews and card sorting …