Closed loop or ‘circular’ production systems known as Circular Economy and Cradle to Cradle represent a unique opportunity to radically revise the currently wasteful system of production. One of the challenges of such systems is that circular products need to be both produced locally with minimum environmental …

From the article: Though organizations are increasingly aware that the huge amounts of digital data that are being generated, both inside and outside the organization, offer many opportunities for service innovation, realizing the promise of big data is often not straightforward. Organizations are faced …

Some 25 policymakers and ministerial officers from developing countries and emerging economies as well as representatives from international organizations participated in a capacity building course on sustainable energy solutions, jointly organized by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization …

Teacher beliefs have been shown to play a major role in shaping educational practice, especially in the area of grammar teaching―an area of language education that teachers have particularly strong views on. Traditional grammar education is regularly criticized for its focus on rules-of-thumb rather …

Due to the growing availability of huge amounts of data of different types and the growing capabilities to analyze these data, the expectations of big data applications are high. In this paper, we argue that the usability of big data in the social domain is far from trivial. If the outcomes of big data …

The teacher-student relationship plays an important role in the academic and behavioral development of primary school children with externalizing problem behavior. However, such problem behavior often threatens the quality of the teacher-student relationship. Teacher-focused coaching intervention Key2Teach …

Onder leiding van Marijn de Vries in discussie geweest met Dick Lukkien (FC Emmen), Mart ten Berge (topsporter/docent) en Jan Pieter van Driel (voetbalbestuurder) over de waarde van topsport en de manier waarop we met talentontwikkeling om gaan. De vraag is of de beroemde 10.000 uren regel (deliberate …

Het spreekt voor zich dat het vinden, binden en boeien van de juiste medewerkers van cruciaal belang is voor bedrijven. Om hun verdienvermogen te vergroten, is het belangrijk om talent te (er)kennen en hiermee aan de slag te gaan. VNO- NCW Noord is van mening dat, nu de economie groeit en de arbeidsmarkt …

De overheid heeft de inzet van hbo-verpleegkundigen gestimuleerd, zowel in het onderwijs als in zorgorganisaties. Uit onderzoek is gebleken dat een hbo-verpleegkundige een aantal CANMEDS-rollen vrij gemakkelijk aanneemt, zoals die van zorgverlener en communicator. De rollen van reflectieve professional …