Eighteen years after the introduction of the graphing calculator in national examinations in the Netherlands, much has been learned about the use of technology in education. One of the key lessons was that integrating ICT as a tool for learning math is a complex task, and this complexity is often underestimated. …

Background In 2015, Amsterdam became part of the WHO Age Friendly City community, thereby accepting the responsibility to work towards a more age friendly Amsterdam. To study senior citizens’ needs and wishes concerning the age friendliness of their neighbourhood, the municipality asked the Amsterdam …

This essay is based on research promoted by INDIRE, Italian National Institute for Documentation, Innovation and Educational Research in Education, and is developed under the research on ‘Professional networks, Educational models and School principal’s profile in Italy’. On the basis of observation and …

Amsterdam as a lab. That is what Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences' three fieldlabs and its many partners have in mind. Functional illiteracy, debts, learning deficiencies or problems caused by extreme precipitation: the city contains plenty of tough issues, demanding novel approaches in which …

High Performance Organization (HPO) characteristics indicate why an organization is able to achieve significantly better results than other organizations and these characteristics can facilitate associations to optimize employees’ work outcomes. The independent professional (IP) is an increasingly …

This study is meant to elucidate the extent to which doping affairs among professional athletes’ impact consumers’ purchase intentions. The following research question has been formulated: “How do doping affairs within professional sports impact consumers’ purchase intentions of the sponsoring brands?” …

This workshop is about sharing how including experts by experience benefits all those who are involved in social work (education) and contributes to change the nature and discourse of social work education and research. Participants in this workshop will learn about our learned lessons and are invited …

The competence profile Learning to Innovate has been specially developed for the honours programme at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences. The added value of an honours programme has been examined in consultation with the professional field. Professional practice has a need for people who can think …

Initiatives focusing on talent development, excellence and honors in higher education have been on the rise throughout Europe over the last fifteen years. But a European network uniting these initiatives was still lacking. This gap is now filled with the creation of the European Honors Council (EHC). …

Knowledge children need to know when one of their parents has a mental illness.In the research of Children Of Parents With a Mental Illness, the information given to children is evaluated. What children want to know is not searched for systematically. So professionals and people in the network of these …