Op donderdag 15 oktober 2009 zijn bij Saxion in Enschede de lectoren Henk van Leeuwen, Piet Griffioen en Wouter Teeuw officieel geïnstalleerd. Met zijn drieën vormen zij het lectoraat ‘ambient intelligence’ van het Saxion Kenniscentrum Design en Technologie. In hun lectorale rede ter ere van deze installatie gaan zij in op ontwikkelingen en toepassingen van ambient intelligence. Met de term ambient intelligence wordt een toekomstvisie aangeduid. In deze visie zijn omgevingen zich bewust van de aanwezigheid van personen, hun gedrag of zelfs hun intenties. Slimme omgevingen kunnen daarop reageren. Denk bijvoorbeeld aan spiegels waarop tijdens het tanden poetsen de file informatie van die dag verschijnt. Of een tapijt dat beweging kan registreren, bijvoorbeeld om patiënten te monitoren in een verzorgingstehuis. In hun rede geeft het drietal lectoren antwoord op stellingen en vragen over de mogelijkheden van ambient intelligence. Kunnen we systemen bedenken die anticiperen op wat mensen willen en ons zo beter ondersteunen in onze activiteiten? Kan een omgeving slim worden en als het ware weten wat er speelt en daarop zo te reageren dat dit door ‘ons’ als gebruiker als natuurlijk wordt ervaren? De lectoren werken voor het lectoraat ambient intelligence binnen het Kenniscentrum Design en Technologie van Saxion. Het lectoraat richt zich op de werkomgeving met aandacht voor veilig, plezierig en gezond werken.
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This review of meta-analyses of outcome studies of adults receiving Computer-Based Health Education (CBHE) has two goals. The first is to provide an overview of the efficacy of CBHE interventions, and the second is to identify moderators of these effects. A systematic literature search resulted in 15 meta-analyses of 278 controlled outcome studies. The meta-analyses were analysed with regard to reported (overall) effect sizes, heterogeneity and interaction effects. The results indicate a positive relationship between CBHE interventions and improvements in health-related outcomes, with small overall effect sizes compared to non-computer-based interventions. The sustainability of the effects was observed for up to six months. Outcome moderators (31 variables) were studied in 12 meta-analyses and were clustered into three categories: intervention features (20 variables), participant characteristics (five variables) and study features (six variables). No relationship with effectiveness was found for four intervention features, theoretical background, use of internet and e-mail, intervention setting and self-monitoring; two participant features, age and gender; and one study feature, the type of analysis. Regarding the other 24 identified features, no consistent results were observed across meta-analyses. To enhance the effectiveness of CBHE interventions, moderators of effects should be studied as single constructs in high-quality study designs. http://www.journalofinterdisciplinarysciences.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/leontienvreeburg/
Contemporary education increasingly involves a blended learning environment, which consists of a combination of offline and online delivery methods. Blended learning environments can motivate students to learn, but designing motivating blended learning environments is challenging and can result in environments that demotivate students. This conceptual article proposes a blended learning design that helps practitioners to design motivating blended learning environments. According to self-determination theory, students are motivated to learn when their three basic psychological needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness are supported. Competency-based education (CBE) is intended to support students’ basic psychological needs. We have constructed design guidance for CBE programmes that help practitioners to design a combination of offline and online delivery methods that (1) give students choices in time and place to support their need for autonomy, (2) adapt to students’ competency levels to support their need for competence, and (3) stimulate students’ relationship building with peers and teachers to support their need for relatedness. Although the design guidance is tentative, practitioners can experiment with it to design blended learning environments that motivate students to learn.
