Packaged enterprise software, in contrast with custom-built software, is a ready-made mass product aimed at generic customer groups in a variety of industries and geographical areas. The implementation of packaged software usually leads to a phase of appropriation and customization. As the associated …

Since 2000, all Dutch Universities of Professional Education are confronted with three major renewals. The first was the European agreement to implement the Bachelor-Master system in Higher Education. The second was the strong tendence to renew eduction towards Competence Based Education. The third renewal …

Purpose This paper describes the result of an empirical study into the critical success factors for implementing an intellectual capital valuation method, the KPMG Value Explorer®. Methodology/Approach For this study the design approach was used as research methodology. Findings The research shows the …

The paper describes the results of a pilot project for a novel approach to introduce sustainable development in engineering eduction. That concerns a full integration in the study with the goal that all students develop a basic understandingt and are trained in the specific aspects of sustainable issues …

The paper describes how the CIRRUS project, a pilot for a novel approach to introduce sustainable development in engineering education, has been implemented into the studies of the School of the Built Environment and Management. That concerns the implementation of sustainability in the curriculum of …

It has become a topic at Dutch educational institutes to feel not only responsible for improvement of theoretical and practical skills, but also of 'competences' in a broader sense. The curriculum of the Electrical and Electronic (E&E) Department has been changed enormously in the past decade. Fewer …

Communication plays an important role in manyprofessional contexts. This is especially truefor students in the field of social work. Theaim of this study was to develop formative,self-regulated multimedia self-assessment ofsocial-communicative competencies for socialwork students. First, a pilot study …

De doelstellingen van het onderzoek zijn het nagaan van de mate van de implementatie van de KNGF-richtlijn lage-rugpijn, het inventariseren van het handelen van eerstelijns fysiotherapeuten bij patiënten met lage-rugpijn en het in kaart brengen van de bekendheid met en het oordelen over de KNGF-richtlijn …

Estimation of the factor model by unweighted least squares (ULS) is distribution free, yields consistent estimates, and is computationally fast if the Minimum Residuals (MinRes) algorithm is employed. MinRes algorithms produce a converging sequence of monotonically decreasing ULS function values. Various …