Leden van de kenniskring “Professionalisering van Leraren en Lerarenopleiders” (Fontys Lerarenopleiding Tilburg) zijn voornemens een intervisiegroep op te zetten waarin opleiders met elkaar van gedachten wisselen over het begrip modelling: het voordoen, expliciteren en legitimeren van wat het zou kunnen …

This study aimed to examine which kind of support through professional development activities is offered to teacher educators in the (Dutch) teacher education institutes for primary and secondary education regarding conducting practice-based research and supervising students’ research. Two online surveys …

Beginning teachers encounter a lot of challenges when they start to work in their first job as a teacher (Kessels, 2010; Pillen, 2013). In this study, the support and coaching of beginning teachers in schools is the central issue. What kind of support do beginning teachers receive, what topics are discussed …

Before the start and during the first weeks of their first year, it has been observed by teachers that engineering students start with a high level of motivation, which often seems to decrease during the course of the first semesters. Such a decrease in motivation can be a main driver for students …

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Deze uitgave is een eerste verkenning van de mogelijkheden om learning analytics in te zetten bij open en online onderwijs en de Grand Challenges die daarbij spelen. Vijf experts uit de special interest groups Open Education en Learning Analytics identificeerden daartoe de uitdagingen in één van beide …

In which areas and domains do individual teacher educators prefer to work on their professional development? What kind of learning activities do they want to take on and with whom? Are there significant differences in these preferences between teacher educators? This article reports on a recent survey …

De Fontys Lerarenopleiding Tilburg en Hogeschool Rotterdam zijn gezamenlijk voorloper op het thema 'kwaliteit van lerarenopleiders' (Lerarenagenda 2013-2020), waarbij ze elk een eigen aanpak hebben gekozen. In dit artikel beschrijven we hoe deze instituten invulling geven aan dit thema en welke aanpak …

The attention for teacher educators as professionals and their professional development is indeed increasing. While much of the attention has been directed to novice teacher educators little has been paid to experienced teacher educators and their particular developmental activities. This paper presents …

The importance of teaching engineering students innovation development is commonly clearly understood. It is essential to achieve products which are attractive and profitable in the market. To achieve this, an institute of engineering education has to provide students with needed knowledge, skills and …