Privacy, copyright, classified documents and state secrets, but also spontaneous network phenomena like flash mobs and hashtag revolutions, reveal one thing – we lost control over the digital world. We experience a digital tailspin, or as Michael Seemann calls it in this essay: a loss of control or Kontrollverlust. …

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have continued to attract considerable media coverage as governments and universities respond to the open and online education movement. Three years after the MOOCs began its rise, it is clear that the HE institutions in the EU are gaining speed in this movement. This …

This thesis seeks to discover how personal leadership education functions in the Netherlands and to suggest recommendations for its improvement. To this end, personal leadership courses and students’ attitudes towards those courses at six higher education institutions were researched. Personal leadership …

The economic situation of Europe and growth of employment largely depends on small sized and medium sized enterprises that provides around 4 million jobs every year. Young people face increasing difficulties in finding jobs and therefore there is a pressing need to promote entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurial …

Presentatie op congres The Sign Language Proficiency Interview (SLPI) is a tool for assessing functional sign language skill. Based on the Language Aptitude Test, it uses a recorded 20 minute conversation between a skilled interviewer and the candidate. The interview uses an ad hoc series of probing …

Deze studie onderzoekt de positie van het vmbo binnen het Nederlandse onderwijsstelsel en dient als startdossier bij het advies "Herkenbaar vmbo met sterk vakmanschap" van de Onderwijsraad.

Ark of Inquiry is a learning platform that uses a computer-based inquiry learning approach to raise youth awareness to Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI). It is developed in the context of a large-scale European project (http://www.arkofinquiry.eu) and provides young European citizens (7–18-year-olds) …

Abstract: To gather insight on how Health in All Policies (HiAP) is applied in practice, we carried out a case study on transport policies intended to stimulate a shift from car use to bicycling. We reviewed 3 years (2010, 2011, and 2012) of national budgets and policy documents in the Netherlands, followed …

Abstract for the European Association of Sociology for Sport conference in Dublin on the development over time of social impact evaluations in the Netherlands. In total 33 sport events were included that were held between 1980-2015 in the Netherlands. The events were selected to vary in fixed vs. mobile, …

De transformatie naar een informatiegedreven overheid, wat zijn de prioriteiten van bestuurders en CIO's?