We are proud to organize the first FabLearn conference in the Netherlands where many maker education initiatives are shared in masterclasses and on a fair. As early as 2007, the first maker initiatives started in the Netherlands and making keeps gaining momentum in education. As new parties are embracing …

Over the past decade, the maker movement and in its slipstream maker education have attained worldwide popularity among educators, politicians, and the media. Makers’ enthusiasm for creative design and construction, using old and new tools has proven contagious, and is worth exploration and critical …

Since 2011, Hogeschool Rotterdam (Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences) operates a FabLab specialized in sensing, data processing and digital fabrication. The lab acted primarily as an educational infrastructure for electives and course modules within minors, and it was a making infrastructure for …

Makersonderwijs – leren door te maken – lijkt “hot” te zijn. In de Verenigde Staten heeft maker education de aandacht en zegen van president Obama weten te verkrijgen. Ook in Nederland heeft de petitie “Leren door te maken” makersonderwijs in de politieke schijnwerpers gezet. Dit onderzoek gaat in op …

Maker spaces are generally regarded as a valuable innovation in comparison to traditional education, although it is largely unclear what is exactly learned. This deficiency hampers the deployment of maker spaces, particularly their embedding and integration in the existing practice in formal education. …

Learning activities in a makerspace are hands-on and characterized by design and inquiry. Evaluation is needed both for learners and their coaches in order to effectively guide the learning process of the children and for feedback on the effectiveness of the after-school maker activities. Due to its …

Maker education offers opportunities to stimulate the creativity of young people in various types of education. How to guide these learning processes, however, is an unexplored area for the supervisors (teachers and librarians). In the research-project presented, a professional learning community of …

Presentation on the outlines of the 4 year NWO/Smart Culture project 'Curious Hands'.

This demo proposal builds upon recent research in the Netherlands were we try to gain insights into teachers acting as designers. A few years ago, we started professional learning groups around design and research with teachers in secondary education [8]. In a few sessions these teachers morphed into …

Het boekje is een beeldende verslaglegging van het project Zichtbaar slimmer met als doel het potentieel van datafysicalisatie -het tastbaar maken van data en abstracte informatie- in het onderwijs te onderzoeken. Via een aantal workshops en lesprogramma voor uiteenlopende doelgroepen (N>130)  zoals …