Professionals are increasingly involved in attempts to understand and address problems with wicked tendencies, which require crossing boundaries between disciplines, organizations and stakeholder perspectives. This multiple-case study investigated six higher professional education courses in order to …

Data has been deemed fundamental to the digital transformation in society and businesses. It can influence all spheres of a company. Data-driven insights enable companies to make better decisions and thus to become more competitive in the market. The demand for data-literate employees and citizens needs …

Data is driving a broad digital transformation in our current society and business world, which in turn drives the demand for data savvy young professionals. Education needs to cater to this surging demand in society and business. Therefore, in this research, we attempt to answer the central research …

This paper focuses on how students in applied bachelor programmes transform from students to professionals during their educational path. At the brink of their educational pathway towards professionalism, students bring their own beliefs and expectations of what it entails to become a professional through …

Higher education has the potential to act as ecosystem catalysts, connecting with the places our institutions which they are a part of, for learning-based changes with wicked (sustainability) challenges. This, however, calls for reorienting and rethinking of the higher educational narratives and subsequent …

In November 2019, scholars and practitioners from ten higher education institutions celebrated the launch of the iKudu project. This project, co-funded by Erasmus [1], focuses on capacity development for curriculum transformation through internationalisation and development of Collaborative Online International …

The learning innovation we report in this article is an international rapid-prototyping event (48 hours) in which teams of international BSc and MSc students from two universities (Western Europe and South-East Africa, respectively) jointly designed and developed a prototype for a local small-business …

Students in higher professionals education are prepared for high level professional practice. To be able to fulfill their future roles, their educational programmes provide them interaction with professional knowledge, theoretical knowledge and professional practice. These types of interactions are presumed …

Background: In the Netherlands, most of the academic curricula for teacher training in religious education (RE) focus on shortfalls of students, like a lack of knowledge about the plurality of worldviews and the diversity in interpretations of the Christian tradition. In our research project, the focus …

The importance of sustainability is rapidly increasing and by now has an increasing impact on the operations of organizations. In modern organizations many of the business processes are supported by IT, which makes the relation between sustainability and IT an important subject. However, how to integrate …