A world without internationalisation has become unthinkable in 2016. Internationalisation plays a big role in our daily lives, mostly unconscious. It would be beneficial if school pupils familiarised themselves with this phenomenon, because of the effects of internationalisation on society,. The concepts …

Up until 2005 Peter Mak was involved as pedagogy teacher in the instrumental teacher education of the Bachelor of Music of the Prince Claus Conservatoire. The programme’s pedagogy section consisted of modules developed by Peter including ‘Didactics’, ‘Learning processes’, ‘Study skills’, and ‘Exceptional …

Since concepts may have different meanings in different contexts, students have to learn to recontextualise them, i.e. to adapt their meanings to a new context. It is unclear, however, what characteristics a learning and teaching strategy for recontextualising should have. The study aims to develop such …

On March 9th and 10th Zac Woolfitt attended the Media and Learning Conference in Brussels. The programme of this annual conference examines ‘developments, services and uses of media in education and training to […] identify policies and initiatives that promote digital and media competence at all levels …

Academic libraries collect process and preserve and provide access to unique collections in support of teaching, learning and research. Digitisation of local history collections has been undertaken as a way to preserving fragile materials and promoting access. On the other had social networking tools …

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 …

Honours programs are selective programs that offer challenging educational opportunities for talented students who are willing and able to do more than regular programs offer them (Wolfensberger et.al.,2012). For optimal learning, these programs should focus on three dimensions of teaching approaches: …

Doel van het SPEACH project is via docenten lichamelijke opvoeding en sportcoaches (MBO, HBO en Master niveau) gezondheidsbevorderende sport en lichamelijke activiteit (HEPA) bij kinderen en jongeren te stimuleren. Om dit te bereiken worden studiemodules ontwikkeld voor en met medewerking van huidige …

The number of out-of-school science programs, which refers to science education at outside school environments, is gradually increasing. Although out-of-school programs are generally considered to be important for the development of pupils’ science knowledge and skills, more evidence concerning the learning …

Jos Fransen is geinterviewd door het televisieprogramma Nieuwsuur en heeft input geleverd voor de reportage over Coderen in het Basisonderwijs.