Design Thinking
Early June, I immersed myself in an intensive workshop about Design Thinking. The focus was on its potential usefulness for academic education, but we also touched upon managerial issues. For example, when we discussed that future academic education will benefit from...
The Medialiteracy Network eXperience MNX19
MNX19, the Dutch national event on media literacy was very well attended in the beautiful building of Beeld & Geluid (Media Park, Hilversum). I gave a talk about the goals of the Scientific Council in which I emphasized the importance of close links between...
Future Education Hackathon
This weekend we had the very first hackathon on campus at Erasmus University. It was devoted to developing ideas for future education. Teams of students were coached by lecturers and also received technical support during this 24 hour event. Many teams came up with...
Global Education: teachers on center stage
From 22-24 March 2019, I was in Dubai participating in the Global Education and Skills Forum (GESF) that is a unique, huge get together of people dedicated to education. There were many teachers from primary and secondary education, lots of school principals and many...
Speaking at PERL, the Programming Education Research Lab
It was a pleasure to give a talk at the opening of Feliene Hermans' Programming Education Research Lab at Leiden University. Actually, in the building where I bought my first personal computer in 1980 (supplied by CRI, the Centraal Reken Instituut). The research by...
Our bachelorprogram scrutinized
In the Netherlands, academic degree programs are externally assessed every six years. It was our turn on Friday 1 February. The international committee visited us to have a day long critical conversation about our International Bachelor for Communication and Media,...
2019: my year of Open Access?
The past years, I invested a lot in knowledge sharing, for example by publishing our MOOC (see Teaching) or by giving public lectures to different audiences. By the end of 2018 it was great to see that Open Access publishing gained momentum. For me and my co-authors...
2018 is almost over
I spend the last few days of 2018 relaxing with family and friends. In between these enjoyable social events, I am revising and updating my blog using the Divi theme, which is also enjoyable.
Out on the streets (again)!
On Friday 14 December 2018, I joined the national demonstration of WO in actie in The Hague. Next door to the Ministry of Education. The thousands of us protested against the repeated cuts in the universities' budget. Higher education is not a priority for this...
Chairing the Media Literacy Council
On 11 December 2018, I was installed as the chairman of the new Scientific Council of the Dutch Media Literacy Network. The council aims to catalogue research with respect to media literacy and digital literacy in The Netherlands in order to identify gaps in our...