Aim: Improvement and harmonization of European clinical pharmacology and thera peutics (CPT) education is urgently required. Because digital educational resources can be easily shared, adapted to local situations and re-used widely across a variety of educational systems, they may be ideally suited for …

This project leaves from the fundamental conviction that the transition towards more sustainable futures is not only a transition of businesses, technology or design – but fundamentally happens in our inner worlds, our values, mindsets and worldviews in relation to our connection with others and reported …

Our planet’s ecology and society are on a collision course, which manifests due to a contradiction in the assumptions of unlimited material growth fueling the linear economic paradigm. Our closed planetary ecosystem imposes confined amounts of space and a finite extent of resources upon its inhabitants. …

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 …

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 …

Formative assessment can be understood as assessment for learning rather than of learning. Research has demonstrated that formative assessment/feedback is strongly and causally related to students’ achievement in higher education. At Avans University of Applied Sciences, the first-year course Mechanics …

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 …

On a four-year bachelor course at Inholland University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands, additional modern language was offered to first-year students studying at three locations. Since each location only had a few students and there was only one language teacher available, across the three locations, …

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 …