Het ondersteunen van leerlingen met kenmerken van autisme is een uitdaging. Deze leerlingen ervaren vaak moeilijkheden in betrokkenheid bij het leren, wat schoolprestaties en uitval beïnvloedt. Leerkrachten missen soms de juiste kennis en competenties om goed aan te kunnen sluiten bij de ondersteuningsvraag …

How do you train creativity, empathy and collaboration in a virtual world? In this talk I will take you through Connected Creativity in VR – an educational project in which students meet each other as avatars in VRChat and learn beyond the screen. You will discover how artistic assignments, playful interaction …

De journalistiek staat onder druk. Dit proefschrift betoogt dat deze situatie een actieve interpretatie van autonomie vraagt en dat journalisten deze autonomie kunnen versterken door reflectie. De hoofdvraag van dit onderzoek luidt daarom: Hoe kunnen formele en informele reflectiepraktijken in het journalistieke …

Chest imaging plays a pivotal role in screening and monitoring patients, and various predictive artificial intelligence (AI) models have been developed in support of this. However, little is known about the effect of decreasing the radiation dose and, thus, image quality on AI performance. This study …

In dit rondetafelgesprek verkennen we de kerncompetenties voor de mbo-docent van de toekomst: vakinhoudelijke expertise, pedagogisch-didactische vaardigheden en digitale integratie. De Fishbowlmethode bevordert een dynamische discussie waarin alle deelnemers hun visie kunnen delen. We richten ons ook …

In this thesis, we focus on developing behaviours for socially interactive agents (SIAs). The context in which the agent is used is a self-regulated learning system for children. We focus on personalising learning objectives and interaction content within an intelligent tutoring system (ITS). We envision …

Both within the Netherlands and beyond, young people often start their formal foreign language (FL) education just as they reach adolescence. Speaking the FL in class can be intimidating, and this challenge is often exacerbated as teachers lack ready access to engaging speaking activities. In language …

Fluorescent Penetrant Inspection (FPI) is a widely used inspection technique in the aerospace industry. Because of the aging aerospace sector, and because of the safety-criticality of the inspection, aerospace companies aim to automate (parts of this) inspection process to support inspectors. This paper …

A significant body of research supports the affective benefits of drama activities in foreign language (FL) learning, yet little is known about how to train teachers to implement such activities. In this study, we tested a professional development program (PDP) aimed at galvanizing FL teachers to integrate …