For successful project management, it is essential to adopt a suitable project management approach. This approach must be based on a thorough understanding of the project characteristics in its context. In this paper we present a diagnostic model that aims to advance this understanding. We distinguish …

Abstraction is considered an essential aspect of computational thinking. Primary schools are starting to include computational thinking into the curriculum. However, in order to guide their support, teachers need to know how to recognize abstraction. In this paper, we present how we can observe abstraction …

In de afgelopen decennia heeft er op de werkvloer een stille revolutie plaatsgevonden. De computer neemt steeds meer taken over die de corebusiness vormen van professionals uit verschillende branches. Softwareprogramma's beoor-delen voor een verzekeringsagent of een aanvraag voor een schade-uitkering …

The purpose of this literature study was to obtain an overview of previous civic literacy projects and their characteristics as primarily described in educational science literature. Eighteen academic articles on civic literacy projects in higher education were studied in detail and coded using the qualitative …

ALTEN is een technisch consultancy- en engineeringsbureau dat gevestigd is in 25 landen. Het bedrijf is in Frankrijk in 1988 opgericht door de CEO Simen Azoulay. Huidig heeft ALTEN wereldwijd 30.000 werknemers in dienst en heeft een jaarlijkse omzet van 1,975 miljard euro. Binnen ALTEN Technology …

Making design work in the field of dementia requires interdisciplinary research. However, obstacles are likely to occur when healthcare and creative researchers work together. Analyzing the startup phase of ten interdisciplinary projects in the field of dementia, overweight and loneliness we found seven …

Introduction In 2016 a new form of integrated community treatment for patients with serious mental illnesses was implemented in two neighborhoods in the city of Utrecht (335000 inhabitants) in the Netherlands. Treatment is characterized by close collaboration of psychiatric care, somatic care (i.e. general …

Motivating students to actively engage in their studying efforts is an ongoing challenge, because motivation is a key factor in study success. In the work presented here, we investigate whether the use of a mobile app with a teacher-like avatar (StudyGotchi), based on the successful digital pet Tamagotchi, …