Invited talk presented during the execution of the Memorandum of Understanding between Tinajin University and the Dutch Hanze and Saxion Universities of Applied Sciences.

For successful project management, it is essential to adopt a suitable project management approach. This approach must be based on a thorough understanding of the project characteristics in its context. In this paper we present a diagnostic model that aims to advance this understanding. We distinguish …

Abstraction is considered an essential aspect of computational thinking. Primary schools are starting to include computational thinking into the curriculum. However, in order to guide their support, teachers need to know how to recognize abstraction. In this paper, we present how we can observe abstraction …

Voor de opleiding HBO-ICT Software Engineering aan de Hogeschool van Amsterdam is een afstudeeropdracht uitgevoerd bij VHTO Landelijk expertisebureau meisjes/vrouwen en bèta/techniek. In deze afstudeeropdracht is onderzoek gedaan naar de volgende hoofdvraag: “Op welke wijze kunnen leraren op een gender-inclusieve …

Making design work in the field of dementia requires interdisciplinary research. However, obstacles are likely to occur when healthcare and creative researchers work together. Analyzing the startup phase of ten interdisciplinary projects in the field of dementia, overweight and loneliness we found seven …

The purpose of this literature study was to obtain an overview of previous civic literacy projects and their characteristics as primarily described in educational science literature. Eighteen academic articles on civic literacy projects in higher education were studied in detail and coded using the qualitative …

Motivating students to actively engage in their studying efforts is an ongoing challenge, because motivation is a key factor in study success. In the work presented here, we investigate whether the use of a mobile app with a teacher-like avatar (StudyGotchi), based on the successful digital pet Tamagotchi, …

Delivered a presentation for employees of the UWV about Make IT Work in the North