The Importance of a Robot Math Tutor’s Social Interaction Skills: Scaffolding and Personalization

Maintaining the child-robot relationship after a significant break, such as a holiday, is an important step for developing sustainable social robots for education. We ran a four-session user study (n = 113 children) that included a nine-month break between the third and fourth session. During the study, …

Let's Get Personal - Social Personalization for Sustainable Long-Term Educational Robots

De arbeidsparticipatie van vrouwelijke statushouders is laag. Intensieve professionele begeleiding kan uitkomst bieden. Van de quick fix die het regeerakkoord voorstaat, valt niets te verwachten, aldus onderzoekers Simone Boogaarts en Floor ten Holder.

Waar moet ik op letten bij het begeleiden van vrouwelijke statushouders naar werk? Met deze vraag vanuit het werkveld zijn onderzoekers van een aantal hogescholen, samen met professionals en vrouwelijke statushouders, twee jaar aan de slag gegaan.

Weinig vrouwelijke statushouders doen betaald werk. Een snelle oplossing, zoals het kabinet wil, is onmogelijk. Laat gemeenteambtenaren hen langdurig ondersteunen, betogen onderzoekers Simone Boogaarts en Floor ten Holder.

Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) is often framed as an example of a broader practice known as Virtual Exchange (VE). The term Virtual Exchange has increasingly been used as an attempt to unify a fragmented field of Higher Education practice and is often used interchangeably with the …

More women are attending university than ever before and a quarter of the world’s top universities have appointed a female president, but research shows that female academics are being pushed out of academia and are evaluated lower than male lecturers, which could stifle their careers. So what’s the …

As societal discussions around housing and immigration continue to heat up in the Netherlands, internationalisation has found itself caught in the crossfire. Against a backdrop of changing policies and public sentiment, Simone Hackett of The Hague University of Applied Sciences invited one domestic student …

Collaborative learning is not a new teaching and learning approach; it has been around since the 1970s and is an evidence-based practice that has been proven to be effective time after time. Therefore, instead of reinventing the wheel or only relying on best practices or anecdotal evidence of what works …