International learning community with the label of honours professional. Presentatie, Honours Conference, Hogeschool van Rotterdam. Rotterdam, 3 oktober.

In dit boek worden drie grote thema's rondom honoursprogramma's besproken: de kenmerken van talent en de talentontwikkeling gericht op professionele excellentie, de inrichting van de leeromgeving in honoursprogramma's en honoursteaching. Het boek is primair gericht op docenten uit het hoger onderwijs, …

Stimulating professional development and teaching strategies of honors teachers.

In May 2011, Dutch students from the honors program in geosciences of Utrecht University, led by Professor Marca Wolfensberger, engaged in an experimental-learning project in Paris, France, with a group of American students from the honors program of Columbia College, South Carolina, led by Professors …

Qualities honours students look for – revisited.

Meer halen uit de beste studenten in het hoger onderwijs: dat is het motto van het Sirius Programma. Het doel: inzicht verkrijgen in wat de beste manier is om excellentie te bevorderen en inzicht in de belemmeringen die hiervoor in de huidige situatie bestaan. Vanuit dit vertrekpunt zijn 20 hogescholen …

Key elements within honors teaching and learning

The importance of international conferences in promoting excellence in honors education

One of the factors that differentiate honors from regular teaching at the Faculty of Geosciences at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, is the freedom that honors students enjoy, a freedom that evokes excellence because it is focused and targeted. This targeted freedom takes three different shapes in …

In Dutch universities, honors programs are a fast growing development. The first such programs started in 1993. Twenty years later a large number of programs are implemented at nearly all research universities and also at many universities of applied sciences in the Netherlands. Recent data have revealed …