Presentatie tijdens studiedag Blended Learning van Vereniging Hogescholen, Utrecht.
Recently, more students have entered Dutch higher education. This is a consequence of the possibility to offer students to enter higher education, with a certificate from senior secondary education (SSVE). In earlier days most students in higher education had passed senior general secondary education (SGSE), or even pre-university education. It is to be expected that these 'new' students approach learning in a different way compared to the 'traditional' students in higher education. The goal of this study was to examine the possible differences between the two groups of students mentioned, and to gain insights in the role possible differences play in the way the two groups of students approach learning. Students' personality characteristics, regulation strategies, learning conceptions and motivational orientations were studied in relation to study approaches. It was assumed that patterns of relations between the variables mentioned would be different for the two groups of students. More specifically, it was expected to find stronger and more crystallised relations between variables within the group of SSVE-students. Indeed, when entering Higer Education, SSVE students scored higher than SGSE students on the personality variables autonomy and conscientiousness; as to their personal orientations on learning and instruction they were more self-test oriented and they scored higher on concrete processing and construction of knowledge. However, the strength and direction of the relations between the variables are the same for both groups. Our findings increase insights into relations between students' personalities and their approaches to learning when entering higher education; this concerns two groups of students from different educational backgrounds. Practically this implies that intake assessments considering personality and self-knowledge might help teachers, coaches and policy makers in advising students how to appraoch learning, when entering higher education. Copyright Elsevier Inc.
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Technologie in het onderwijs wordt mondjesmaat toegepast (zie bijvoorbeeld Schildkamp, Wopereis, KatDe Jong, Peet & Hoetjes, 2020). Alle onderwijsinstellingen hebben tegenwoordig weliswaar een digitale leeromgeving, doch een optimaal gebruik ervan is nog niet gerealiseerd. In veel situaties wordt de digitale leeromgeving voornamelijk gebruikt voor administratieve functies en voor de beschikbaarstelling van leermiddelen. De Coronapandemie heeft voor een ongekende exponentiële groei in het gebruik van technologie gezorgd. Eenvoudigweg omdat de gebruikelijke manieren van lesgeven onmogelijk werden. In een mum van tijd schakelden docenten over naar Teams, Zoom of andere vergelijkbare technologie, werden colleges opgenomen of gestreamd, webinars ontwikkeld, kennisclips gemaakt en online gezet en werd de leeromgeving verder doorontwikkeld om communicatie synchroon en asynchroon te verbeteren. Dat is een prestatie van formaat waardoor het onderwijs in tijden van de pandemie online door kon blijven gaan. Zo ontstonden er door een mix van fysiek en online onderwijs allerlei vormen van blended learning. Blended Learning is een populair concept waar echter zeer uiteenlopende betekenissen achter schuil gaan (Oliver & Trigwell, 2005). Een allesomvattende definitie die op ieders instemming kan rekenen, is een utopie maar de omschrijving van SURF (2020) wordt frequent gehanteerd: Blended learning is een mengvorm van face-to-face en online (ICT-gebaseerde) onderwijsactiviteiten, leermaterialen en tools. Beide soorten leeractiviteiten maken een substantieel onderdeel uit van het onderwijs; idealiter versterken ze elkaar. Het doel is onderwijs te ontwikkelen dat gebruik maakt van ICT om effectief, efficiënt en flexibel leren mogelijk te maken, met een stijging van het leerrendement en de student- en docenttevredenheid tot gevolg. Vanwege het Coronavirus zien we dat onderwijsactiviteiten die voorheen op locatie in een onderwijssetting plaatsvonden, nu voornamelijk online plaatsvinden waarbij studenten en docenten inloggen in Teams, Zoom, Bluejeans of een vergelijkbare omgeving. De inhoud van het onderwijs of manier van lesgeven verandert echter niet of nauwelijks. Dit is illustratief voor wat we verstaan onder blended learning in de vorm van substitutie. Er is dan sprake van een vervanging: Het klaslokaal wordt ingeruild voor Teams. Ook al is straks de coronapandemie voorbij, dan gaan we er van uit dat het onderwijs meer blended zal blijven dan voorheen, omdat we nu op grote schaal de mogelijkheden ervaren van technologische toepassingen en die willen we behouden en verder uitbouwen. Er is momentum om na te denken over hoe te komen tot een meer optimale blend, en dus niet in de fase van substitutie te blijven verkeren, hetgeen vraagt om een herontwerp van het onderwijs. Met dit essay willen we hier de aandacht op vestigen.
The pressure on the European health care system is increasing considerably: more elderly people and patients with chronic diseases in need of (rehabilitation) care, a diminishing work force and health care costs continuing to rise. Several measures to counteract this are proposed, such as reduction of the length of stay in hospitals or rehabilitation centres by improving interprofessional and person-centred collaboration between health and social care professionals. Although there is a lot of attention for interprofessional education and collaborative practice (IPECP), the consortium senses a gap between competence levels of future professionals and the levels needed in rehabilitation practice. Therefore, the transfer from tertiary education to practice concerning IPECP in rehabilitation is the central theme of the project. Regional bonds between higher education institutions and rehabilitation centres will be strengthened in order to align IPECP. On the one hand we deliver a set of basic and advanced modules on functioning according to the WHO’s International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health and a set of (assessment) tools on interprofessional skills training. Also, applications of this theory in promising approaches, both in education and in rehabilitation practice, are regionally being piloted and adapted for use in other regions. Field visits by professionals from practice to exchange experiences is included in this work package. We aim to deliver a range of learning materials, from modules on theory to guidelines on how to set up and run a student-run interprofessional learning ward in a rehabilitation centre. All tested outputs will be published on the INPRO-website and made available to be implemented in the core curricula in tertiary education and for lifelong learning in health care practice. This will ultimately contribute to improve functioning and health outcomes and quality of life of patients in rehabilitation centres and beyond.
The HAS professorship Future Food Systems is performing applied research with students and external partners to transform our food system towards a more sustainable state. In this research it is not only a question of what is needed to achieve this, but also how and with whom. The governance of our food system needs rethinking to get the transformative momentum going in a democratic and constructive manner. Building on the professorship’s research agenda and involvement in the transdisciplinary NWA research project, the postdoc will explore collective ownership and inclusive participation as two key governance concepts for food system transformation. This will be done in a participatory manner, by learning from and with innovative bottom-up initiatives and practitioners from the field. By doing so, the postdoc will gain valuable practical insights that can aid to new approaches and (policy) interventions which foster a sustainable and just food system in the Netherlands and beyond. A strong connection between research and education is created via the active research involvement of students from different study programs, supervised by the postdoc (Dr. B. van Helvoirt). The acquired knowledge is embedded in education by the postdoc by incorporating it into HAS study program curricula and courses. In addition, it will contribute to the further professional development of qualitative research skills among HAS students and staff. Through scientific, policy and popular publications, participation in (inter)national conferences and meetings with experts and practitioners, the exposure and network of the postdoc and HAS in the field of food systems and governance will be expanded. This will allow for the setting up of a continuous research effort on this topic within the professorship via follow-up research with knowledge institutes, civic society groups and partners from the professional field.
In the past decades, we have faced an increase in the digitization, digitalization, and digital transformation of our work and daily life. Breakthroughs of digital technologies in fields such as artificial intelligence, telecommunications, and data science bring solutions for large societal questions but also pose a new challenge: how to equip our (future)workforce with the necessary digital skills, knowledge, and mindset to respond to and drive digital transformation?Developing and supporting our human capital is paramount and failure to do so may leave us behind on individual (digital divide), organizational (economic disadvantages), and societal level (failure in addressing grand societal challenges). Digital transformation necessitates continuous learning approaches and scaffolding of interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation practices that match complex real-world problems. Research and industry have advocated for setting up learning communities as a space in which (future) professionals of different backgrounds can work, learn, and innovate together. However, insights into how and under which circumstances learning communities contribute to accelerated learning and innovation for digital transformation are lacking. In this project, we will study 13 existing and developing learning communities that work on challenges related to digital transformation to understand their working mechanisms. We will develop a wide variety of methods and tools to support learning communities and integrate these in a Learning Communities Incubator. These insights, methods and tools will result in more effective learning communities that will eventually (a) increase the potential of human capital to innovate and (b) accelerate the innovation for digital transformation
