After 15 years of digital openness in education with as its most visible elements OER and MOOCs, the open community is challenged to widen adoption of openness in teaching practices to (as Rogers puts it) the early and late majority of teachers. For them to adopt, the gain should be clear and directly …

June 2015 the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science formulated an ambitious program for open and online education in the Netherlands in its Strategic Agenda “HO2025, de waarde(n) van weten” (“Higher Education 2025, the value(s) of knowledge”). According to Minister Mrs. Jet Bussemaker: “I …

This short text was written to accompany the images on the invitation of Laura White, for which I would like to thank her very much. The text is based on a number of publications and the exhibition Object Lessons: The History of Material Education in 8 Chapters, I curated together with Imke Volkers at …

Blended learning, a teaching format in which face-to-face and online learning is integrated, nowadays is an important development in education. Little is known, however, about its affordances for teacher education, and for domain specific didactical courses in particular. To investigate this topic, we …

The cultivation of intrinsic motivation is key in the 21th century, but most students in Dutch vocational education lack this quality. To foster intrinsic motivation, a strong career-learning environment is needed that enables students to develop career competencies and a career identity. However such …

The current paper is a reflective discussion report that describes the advantages and limitations of online teaching and learning at master’s level healthcare education from the teachers’ point of view. The aim is to open dialogue between nursing educators and healthcare providers on how exclusively …

The full title of this exhibition is Updates – Six Investigations into the Use of Photographs in Ugandan News Media. It is related to part of the content of Ebishushani #3, All the Tricks, Elly Rwakoma. The heart of this book shows photographs made by Rwakoma on the occasion of a political rally that …

In this visual document we show the output of the exhibition together with a spoken introductory text

Researching and implementing educational interventions is a challenge. Combining his experience as a teacher educator and PhD candidate in developmental psychology, Frank Assies explains how he is able to go from practice to theory to practice in shaping a Curious Minds based intervention in Teacher …

Ik zie, ik zie wat jij niet ziet Studenten van Academie Minerva portretteerden mensen met dementie op een gesloten afdeling van zorginstelling ZINN (De Brink) en Dignis (’t Blauwbörgje) in Groningen. Drie maanden lang schetsen kunststudenten wekelijks hun bijzondere modellen. De portretten zijn het gevolg …