Background: Digital health is well-positioned in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) to revolutionize health care due, in part, to increasing mobile phone access and internet connectivity. This paper evaluates the underlying factors that can potentially facilitate or hinder the progress of digital …

A key concept within 21st-century skills is knowing how to acquire new knowledge and skills. Metacognition is the knowledge a person has of their own learning combined with the skills to apply that knowledge to enable more efficient and effective learning. Game-based learning can stimulate motivation …

In het kader van het internationale project Designing & Evaluating Innovative Mobile Pedagogies (DEIMP) zijn een literatuurstudie en een verkennend onderzoek uitgevoerd. De focus binnen het project ligt op inzet van innovatieve didactische inzet van mobiele technologie in het basisonderwijs. De doelen …

Deze poster geeft inzicht in de (voorlopige) belemmeringen en succesfactoren bij het ontwikkelen van een leergemeenschap op basis van een onderzoeksmatige samenwerking tussen onderzoekers, opleiders, leerkrachten en studenten van de Pabo. Aanleiding voor de onderzoeksmatige samenwerking is de vraag van …

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, …

One of the main causes of numerous health problems is a lack of physical activity. To promote a more active lifestyle, the Hanze University started a health promotion program. Participants were motivated to reach their daily goal of physical activity by means of an activity tracker in combination with …

From the article: "The goal of higher professional education is to enable students to develop into reflective practitioners, having both a firm theoretical knowledge base as well as appropriate, professional attitudes and skills. Learning at the workplace is crucial in professional education, because …

Deze posterpresentatie geeft informatie over het onderzoek bij vijf basisscholen in de regio Den Haag die wilden weten hoe mobiele technologie didactisch kan worden ingezet en hoe deze inzet door leerkrachten versterkt kan worden. Deze scholen participeerden als werkveldpartner in het transnationale …

The future of the business sector for students in higher education is uncertain. The reasons for this are technological developments, the effects of globalisation and the shifting of business models (Brynjolfsson & McAfee, 2014; Helbing, 2014). The consequences of digitalisation and robotisation are …

BACKGROUND: A lack of physical activity is considered to cause 6% of deaths globally. Feedback from wearables such as activity trackers has the potential to encourage daily physical activity. To date, little research is available on the natural development of adherence to activity trackers or on potential …