Educators in professional higher education experience difficulties addressing students’ self-awareness in their courses. The topic is often dismissed by students as ‘vague’ or ‘irrelevant’. This is detrimental for learning since knowing who you are and who you want to be is crucial: it guides behaviour …

Anno 2022 worden de agenda’s van de markt en politiek bepaald door de transities rondom gezondheid, mobiliteit, klimaat en economie. Gemeenschappen die creatief en innovatief met die uitdagingen omgaan zijn niet alleen robuust genoeg om ze te absorberen maar kunnen problemen die op ze af komen ook tijdig …

In het werving- en selectieproces proberen organisaties in eerste instantie zoveel mogelijk geschikte kandidaten te laten solliciteren (een marketing/ branding probleem) om daaruit dan de meest geschikte kandidaat te kiezen (een selectieprobleem). Het is wettelijk verboden om bij het selecteren van kandidaten …

This paper discusses challenges in assessing design students within studio model education. It reflects on the assessment methods used in the M.Sc. Digital Design, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, with input from an online survey targeting former students and assessors of the programme. Building …

We use a randomised experiment to study the effect of offering half of 556 freshman students a learning analytics dashboard and a weekly email with a link to their dashboard, on student behaviour in the online environment and final exam performance. The dashboard shows their online progress in the learning …

Het boek ‘Create Health Ways of Working: Insights from ten eHealth innovation research projects’ presenteert inzichten uit het meta-onderzoeksproject ‘Create & Health Innovation WAys of Working Analysis’, ook wel CHIWAWA genoemd. Binnen dit meta-onderzoeksproject inventariseerden onderzoekers van de …

Thinking about care in the organization of an ecology is central to the interdisciplinary research group Care Ecologies; found during a lockdown in the spring of 2021 and hosted by ARIAS Platform for Research Through the Arts and Sciences in Amsterdam. In Towards Becoming an Ecology of Care group members …

In this paper, the success of students during their first year at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences at the faculty of Communication and Creative Business (formerly called Media, Information and Communication) will be compared prior to Covid-19 and during Covid-19 in the first year. With the …