Paper read at Wanderstudent Conference, October 2000, Leuven, Belgium Society at large changes rapidly, so does education. Higher education is confronted with new target groups and new educational demands. Providing education to them in a face-to-face setting rapidly becomes expensive, often prohibitively …

The Dutch overestimate their English speaking skills. Their pronunciation is not always convincing and certain pronunciation mistakes are easily recognised as being typical for Dutch speakers of English. Although intelligibility cannot exist without adequate pronunciation, teaching English pronunciation …

This paper examines how the learning environment in primary education can be enhanced by stimulating the use of innovative ICT applications. In particular, this discussion focuses on mind tools as a means of leveraging ICT for the development of cognitive skills. The stimulating effect of mind tools …

Ons onderzoek heeft als doel voor het veranderende hoger onderwijs relevante educatieve toepassingen van instant messaging te identificeren en empirisch te toetsen in bestaande onderwijssettings. De eerste stap hierin was een vooronderzoek naar het huidige educatieve IM-gebruik door studenten, en de …

Society and (higher) education have changed rapidly in recent decades. For example, since knowledge has become more volatile, life-long learning has become increasingly important. Higher education itself has been subject of change in the last decade as well. Particularly in the wake of social-constructivist …

De Open Universiteit transformeert zichzelf in een digitale Open Universiteit. Hoe gaat dat in zijn werk?

Inleidend verhaal over normalisatie in het algemeen en normalisatie met betrekking tot leertechnologieën in het bijzonder. Ook op de NEN-website te vinden.

In this paper, I first discuss in some detail the current use of Learning Objects and show it to be wanting. Although their use, in principle, may offer much flexibility in creating content, in practice it will not, particularly since it does not support sufficient pedagogical flexibility. Then I offer …

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This paper discusses two studies - the one in a business context, the other in a university context - carried out with expert educational designers. The studies aimed to determine the priorities experts claim to employ when designing competence-based learning environments. Designers in both contexts …