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Mapping ‘Women in Technology' Issue Networks across Bulgarian, Croatian, and Serbian National Google(s)

This article explores the intersection between women and technology with an experimental research design that uses online search engine data and digital methods (Rogers 2002, 2004, 2013). We respond to Blagojevic’s (2016) call for online mapping of gender equality stakeholders by incorporating the practice of ‘issue mapping’, which Rogers et al. (2015) conceptualise as a series of techniques that can be used to map the network of actors around a public issue, and to understand the ways they associate with one another. Specifically, we apply the software tool IssueCrawler and its co-link analysis of relevant queries to study national Google search result pages for Bulgaria, Croatia and Serbia. We ask, what types of stakeholders are prevalent around the topic of ‘women in technology’ in the local contexts (demarcated by the national Google result pages) of these three countries? Are they country-specific or do they cross national borders? To what extent do they associate with each other? Which actors are in the centre of the identified networks and which are on the periphery? The authors found that the issue networks of all three countries were heavily dominated by media and government actors, followed by business, entrepreneurial and nongovernmental sites, and websites containing information on EU grants. The national specificity, however, was mostly embedded in the groupings of these actors; whether they were densely or loosely interlinked with each other, and whether they were present or absent from the maps.

Feral Drifting with Lonja Wetlands: Fragments of More-than-Human Cohabitation

The Feral Drifting with Lonja Wetlands workshop involved a 4-day feral, performative investigation of multispecies relations and spatio-temporalities of care that shape the flow of life and death in Lonjsko Polje (or Lonja Wetlands), the largest protected wetlands in Croatia. Together with 19 workshop participants, we experimented with feral ways of sensemaking that invite open-ended, multisensory, and spontaneous encounters unfolding beyond the bounds of human control.Inspired by the movements and rhythms of local, other-than-human creatures, such as storks, mosquitoes, storms, and the river Sava, as well as the artistic strategies of dérive (including their flaws), we drifted with the local ecologies and invited pathways towards care-full co-habitation. To navigate through these space-times, we experimented with various performative and speculative sense-making practices including walking, listening, storytelling and forming relations.This feral investigation resulted in co-creative outcomes – or fragments – in diverse forms, such as multispecies rituals, synesthetic maps, wayfinding games, and memory seed banks that were documented as short videos and later turned into the Feral Fragments of Lonjsko Polje film. Here, we share the key processes of our collective workshop and reflect on them in relation to the notion of feral data.

Schuivende panelen in het juridische werkveld: functie- en beroepsvorming HBO-Jurist

full text via link met HU account. Met de introductie van de opleiding HBO-Rechten is begin 21ste eeuw beoogd een waaier van juridische beroepen te creëren. Dit artikel beschrijft in hoeverre dat op dit moment is gelukt. Hiertoe is onderzoek (vragenlijst en casestudy) uitgevoerd naar de functievorming voor en werkervaring en ambitie van de afgestudeerde HBO-jurist. We keken hierbij ook specifiek naar de functies en beroepen die traditioneel door academisch gevormde juristen worden vervuld. Vanuit beroepsvormingstheorieën van onder meer Mok en de onderzoeksresultaten wordt de vraag beantwoord of zich een eigenstandige functie HBO-jurist ontwikkelt (als voorloper van een eigen beroep), zoals oorspronkelijk de bedoeling was. Dat levert verrassende inzichten op. Anders dan beoogd blijkt de HBO-jurist zich met name te meten aan de academisch gevormde jurist. Dat wordt enerzijds zichtbaar doordat zij er massaal voor kiezen om door te studeren aan de universiteit. Anderzijds blijkt dat uit het feit dat de eerste crossovers zich aandienen in het bedrijfsleven, waar HBO-juristen niet meer geweerd lijken te kunnen worden uit voorheen aan academische juristen (niet-toga) voorbehouden functies. Een volwaardige HBO-juristfunctie of -beroep zien wij derhalve op korte termijn niet ontstaan.

Smart Education

Het onderzoeksprogramma Smart Education van de Faculteit Onderwijs en Opvoeding richt zich op het ontwikkelen en verspreiden van kennis en expertise over de effectieve inzet van de mogelijkheden van Kunstmatige Intelligentie in het onderwijs.

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Measuring learning gains in project management

Abstract Teaching project management is becoming a standard part of curricula in higher education. Assessing the added value of the teaching efforts needs pre- and post assessments. Given the wide variety of skills and knowledge project management embraces a proper assessment of project management is difficult. A method of assessing added value has been designed and tested on the first part of a professional Master in Project and Process Management. The design is based on students assessment of learning gains (SALG) with several extra criteria. The design was evaluated, updated and tested again. The third test with a tweaked design is being performed. The results do not convince that this SALG-based instrument can be used to measure added value. Presented at ICEE2015 : International conference on engineering education, 20th - 24th July 2015, Zagreb, Zadar (Croatia).