Het artikel betreft een onderzoek naar de probleemoplossende vaardigheden van bovenbouwleerlingen bij het onderwerp ‘meetkunde’ met bijzondere aandacht voor ‘scaffolding’. Scaffolding is het proces hetgeen een leerling in staat stelt een probleem op te lossen wat zonder hulp niet was gelukt. (Wood, Bruner, …

In today’s era of content abundance, lecturers in higher education have an endless supply of crossmedia materials they can present to students as learning materials. This confronts lecturers with the challenge to select those materials in such a way that they match both course topics and proficiency …

Teacher involvement in the design of curriculum materials is expected to facilitate the process of implementing an educational reform, especially when teams of teachers collaborate in Teacher Design Teams (TDTs). However, little is known about the implementation activities that provide opportunities …

De maatschappij verandert razendsnel en vraagt een meer ondernemende en nieuwsgierige houding van studenten en professionals. Kennis en vaardigheden die hiervoor essentieel zijn noemen we binnen Fontys TEC: Technology, Entrepreneurship en Creativity. Wie over TEC-skills beschikt, begrijpt hoe technologie …

Closed loop or ‘circular’ production systems known as Circular Economy and Cradle to Cradle represent a unique opportunity to radically revise the currently wasteful system of production. One of the challenges of such systems is that circular products need to be both produced locally with minimum environmental …

Objective: Post-mortem computed tomography (PMCT) is an established method for disease, complications, and cause of death determination in both clinical and forensic cases. By adding intravascular infusion of contrast medium, computed tomography angiography (PMCTA) provides additional information on …

The design and use of online materials for blended learning have been in the spotlight of educational development over the last decade. With respect to didactical courses, however, the potential of online and blended learning seems to be underexplored; little is known about its affordances for teacher …

Professional and academic education increasingly use realistic, rich, safe and interactive tools such as serious gaming. In our case we have used a serious game to teach students how socio-economic and technological opportunities and challenges could shape sustainable businesses in a circular economy. …

In today’s era of content abundance, a huge amount of resources is available digitally, from research articles to news items and from online courses to YouTube videos. As a result, lecturers in higher education have an endless supply of crossmedia materials that they can present to students as learning …

In today’s era of content abundance, education has to deal with changed practices for the dissemination of knowledge. Many digital resources are available, and they have the potential to take the place of textbooks. ‘The role of the classic textbook as the key, immutable reference point for any class …