The development of intercultural competences has become a prominent goal for many study programs in higher education. A widely used frame to measure intercultural competence is Cultural Intelligence (CQ). While empirical research has focused extensively on the development of CQ by means of (student) …

We have developed a pedagogical approach wherein learners acquire systems thinking skills and content knowledge by constructing qualitative representations. In this paper, we focus on how learners learn about the biological mechanisms of calcium regulation by constructing such a representation, how they …

The central thesis of this book is that access to information represents a vital aspect of contemporary society, encompassing participation, accountability, governance, transparency, the production of products, and the delivery of services. This view is widely shared, with commentators and scholars agreeing …

Albeit the widespread application of recommender systems (RecSys) in our daily lives, rather limited research has been done on quantifying unfairness and biases present in such systems. Prior work largely focuses on determining whether a RecSys is discriminating or not but does not compute the amount …

Digital surveillance technologies using artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as computer vision and facial recognition are becoming cheaper and easier to integrate into governance practices worldwide. Morocco serves as an example of how such technologies are becoming key tools of governance in authoritarian …

De ontwikkelingen op het gebied van artificial intelligence (AI) gaan razendsnel. Hoe ga je als schooldirecteur om met de kansen en keerzijden van generatieve AI in het onderwijs, zoals ChatGPT? Onderwijskundige en specialist digitale geletterdheid Josien Boetje geeft uitleg, inzichten en tips om jou …

Het doen van onderzoek is een tijdrovend en inspannend proces. Dat is enerzijds heel goed, als we die tijd besteden aan het diep verwerken en nadenken over de onderzoeksinhoud. Maar bij andere aspecten van onderzoek zoals het eindeloos verdwalen in de literatuur of het verwerken van data kunnen we wel …

The healthcare sector has been confronted with rapidly rising health care costs and a shortage of medical staff. At the same time, the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a promising area of research, offering poten tial benefits for healthcare. Despite the potential of AI to support …

Growing research in sign language recognition, generation, and translation AI has been accompanied by calls for ethical development of such technologies. While these works are crucial to helping individual researchers do better, there is a notable lack of discussion of systemic biases or analysis of …

The first Stakeholder Network Meeting of the EU Horizon 2020-funded ONTOX project was held on 13-14 March 2023, in Brussels, Belgium. The discussion centred around identifying specific challenges, barriers and drivers in relation to the implementation of non-animal new approach methodologies (NAMs) and …