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The FITS model: an improved Learning by Design approach

Learning by Design (LBD) is a project-based inquiry approach for interdisciplinary teaching that uses design contexts to learn skills and conceptual knowledge. Research around the year 2000 showed that LBD students achieved high skill performances but disappointing conceptual learning gains. A series of exploratory studies, previous to the study in this paper, indicated how to enhance concept learning. Small-scale tested modifications, based on explicit teaching and scaffolding, were promising and revealed improved conceptual learning gains. The pretest-posttest design study discussed in this paper confirms this improvement quantitatively by comparing the conceptual learning gains for students exposed to the modified approach (n = 110) and traditional approach (n = 77). Further modifications, which resulted in a remodified approach tested with 127 students, show a further improvement through reduced fragmentation of the task and addressed science. Overall, the remodified approach (FITS model: Focus - Investigation - Technological design - Synergy) enriches technology education by stimulating an empirical and conceptual way of creating design solutions.

Gezonde Stad

Lector Gezonde Stad Jeannette Nijkamp richt zich met haaronderzoeksprogramma op een gezonde stedelijke fysieke leefomgeving.Doel is het verkleinen van gezondheidsverschillen tussen bewoners meteen hoge en lage sociaaleconomische status. Deze laatste groep heeftnamelijk een kortere levensverwachting, een slechtere gezondheid en eenongezondere leefstijl.Het Nederlandse gezondheidsbeleid zette tot voor kort vooral in opleefstijlinterventies. Vanwege de hardnekkige gezondheidsverschillenis er nu echter ook aandacht voor een gezonde fysieke leefomgeving.De geschiedenis leert namelijk dat fysieke ingrepen, zoals bijvoorbeeldde aanleg van riolering, een belangrijke bijdrage kunnen leveren aangezondheidsbevordering voor alle bewoners en het verkleinen vangezondheidsverschillen.Binnen het onderzoeksprogramma Gezonde Stad wordt onderzochthoe de fysieke leefomgeving zodanig kan worden ontworpen eningericht dat stadsbewoners zich hier prettig voelen en worden verleidtot gezond gedrag. Hiertoe worden interventies ontwikkeld, waarbijwordt samengewerkt met allerlei partijen zoals gemeenten, bedrijven,organisaties en kennisinstellingen en vooral ook met de bewoners. Ookwordt onderzocht hoe de verschillende partijen kunnen samenwerken bijhet gezonder maken van de leefomgeving.Docent-onderzoekers en studenten werken in hun onderzoek samen metgemeentelijke professionals uit zowel het fysieke als het sociale domein endragen zo bij aan de verbinding tussen beide domeinen. De praktijk heeftgrote behoefte aan deze verbinding, want een combinatie van fysieke ensociale interventies is vaak effectiever.

The Cleantech concept in a regional setting

http://dx.doi.org/10.14261/postit/F6BBB081-6FD4-43B9-801915E45153D068Keynote speech. In 2015 and 2016, Saxion University of Applied Sciences organized the 2nd and 3rd edition of the Regional Innovation and Entrepreneurship Conference (RIEC).In our region, "De Stedendriehoek" (Cities in the Triangle – Apeldoorn – Deventer - Zutphen) there is a close cooperation between Cleantech organizations: industry, education institutes and local governments in the areas of Natural Resources, Energy Transition, Environment, Biobased Production and Agrofood. Started over 2 years ago it became a close collaboration between 12 educational institutes, 240 students, 115 companies and the local governments in this relative small triangle. "De Stedendriehoek" is an area full of innovation and also bottom-up initiatives from organizations and regional citizens who care about sustainability and take their responsibility. One of these local initiatives is the Deventer Energy Cooperative, driven by local citizens focusing on generating clean energy for their members and of course they participate and drive Cleantech projects as well.

Rethinking dynamic fabric through wearing and designing

Higher Education Institution (hei) learning hubs: a case study on social entrepreneurship in Thailand and Myanmar.

Individual Differences in How Desirable People Think They Are as a Mate

Mate value is an important concept in mate choice research although its operationalization and understanding are limited. Here, we reviewed and evaluated previously established conceptual and methodological approaches measuring mate value and presented original research using individual differences in how people view themselves as a face-valid proxy for mate value in long- and short-term contexts. In data from 41 nations (N = 3895, M age = 24.71, 63% women, 47% single), we tested sex, age, and relationship status effects on self-perceived mate desirability, along with individual differences in the Dark Triad traits, life history strategies, peer-based comparison of desirability, and self-reported mating success. Both sexes indicated more short-term than long-term mate desirability; however, men reported more long-term mate desirability than women, whereas women reported more short-term mate desirability than men. Further, individuals who were in a committed relationship felt more desirable than those who were not. Concerning the cross-sectional stability of mate desirability across the lifespan, in men, short- and long-term desirability rose to the age of 40 and 50, respectively, and decreased afterward. In women, short-term desirability rose to the age of 38 and decreased afterward, whereas long-term desirability remained stable over time. Our results suggest that measuring long- and short-term self-perceived mate desirability reveals predictable correlates.