In opdracht van het lectoraat van de Academie Mens en Arbeid van Saxion Hogescholen is onderzoek gedaan naar wat Industrie 4.0 is en wat de gevolgen daarvan zijn voor de kennis en de vaardigheden van medewerkers in het bedrijf. De komende jaren zal de vierde industriële revolutie namelijk steeds meer …

This chapter describes the use of a scoring rubric to encourage students to improve their information literacy skills. It will explain how the students apply the rubric to supply feedback on their peers’ performance in information problem solving (IPS) tasks. Supplying feedback appears to be a promising …

Dit onderzoeksverslag geeft een ondersteuningsmiddel voor de leerkracht in het basisonderwijs om digitaal leermateriaal te integreren in het rekenonderwijs. Door moderne technologische hulpmiddelen en software in te zetten zal de leermotivatie van leerlingen worden gestimuleerd. Daarnaast worden er nieuwe …

The Dutch overestimate their English speaking skills. Their pronunciation is not always convincing and certain pronunciation mistakes are easily recognised as being typical for Dutch speakers of English. Although intelligibility cannot exist without adequate pronunciation, teaching English pronunciation …

In dit onderzoek wordt geschreven over het ICT-gebruik op Basisschool X. De verlegenheid naar dit onderzoek is ontstaan naar aanleiding van het nieuwe bestuursakkoord voor de sector primair onderwijs en het strategisch beleidsplan van Stichting Voila, waar X onderdeel van is. Het doel in het onderzoek …

Create a mobile application for Warehouse Management System. The cross-platform mobile app was made with PhoneGap to reuse the existing web development skills in the company. The app can scan barcodes and communicates with the server via Ajax HTTP protocols.

The „Ageing of Europe‟ phenomenon is related to a higher life expectancy of European inhabitants as well as to decreasing fertility and mortality rates. Those developments affect small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) because the number of older workers in SMEs is increasing too. Our research investigates …

This report uses experience gained during the EU Interreg IVB project ITRACT and shares transnational learning on how to deploy IT-based solutions as part of Smart Specialisation Strategies, for example, while creating answers to societal challenges. ITRACT concentrates on rural areas, where the availability …

Entrepreneurial Journalism is gaining in interest, first in the United States, but now also increasingly in Europe and in the Netherlands. This can be explained by a combination of factors. Firstly, reorganisations and substantial lay-offs in recent years at news publishers, especially of regional newspapers, …

This qualitative interview study explores the practices of adult female gamers who play the videogame The Sims, focusing on the motivations they have for playing and how playing a video game might influence their digital competence. We address the wider context of leisure and the household, investigating …