Educational institutions and vocational practices need to collaborate to design learning environments that meet current-day societal demands and support the development of learners’ vocational competence. Integration of learning experiences across contexts can be facilitated by intentionally structured …

The research concerns a currently developed project of implementing a tidal power harnessing system in the structure of Brouwersdam. The system would exploit hydraulic head difference between two water bodies and using gravity caused flow, generate electricity. As a side-effect to such system, hydraulic …

The central aim of this thesis was to increase understanding of designing vocational learning environments at the school–work boundary. Four studies were conducted, focusing on learning environment designs at the school–work boundary and on design considerations of the actors involved in their construction, …

The Nedap Healthcare business unit is developing a mobile wound recognition solution named Vesalius using Kotlin, Python and tools / libraries such as Anaconda and TensorFlow Lite in order to utilize machine learning to determine the boundary of a wound as bitmap based on its picture.This solution is …

This study focuses on the school–work connection from the perspective of curriculum design. The aim was to uncover considerations underpinning the design of learning environments in vocational education. The research took place in the Netherlands. A focus group methodology was chosen to elicit designers’ …

Een onderzoek binnen Shared Learning Teams, een hybride leeromgeving binnen Fontys Hogescholen, naar het leren van teamleden door het uitwisselen van perspectieven. De maatschappij waarin we leven ontwikkelt zich in een hoog tempo. Fontys Hogescholen wil hier effectief op inspelen door te transformeren …

The learning innovation we report in this article is an international rapid-prototyping event (48 hours) in which teams of international BSc and MSc students from two universities (Western Europe and South-East Africa, respectively) jointly designed and developed a prototype for a local small-business …

In 2015 startte het lectoraat Boundary crossing praktijken van opleiders en onderzoekers bij Aeres Hogeschool Wageningen (AHW, toen nog Stoas Wageningen | Vilentum Hogeschool). We zijn het lectoraat later Grenspraktijken van opleiders en onderzoekers gaan noemen. Het lectoraat wordt momenteel bemensd …

The emergence of organic planning practices in the Netherlands introduces new, non-conventional, local actors initiating bottom-up urban developments. Dissatisfied with conventional practices and using opportunities during the 2008 financial crisis, these actors aim to create social value, thus challenging …

In de wens naar ontwikkeling en groei van professionals en organisaties is er steeds meer aandacht voor interacties en bewegingen die over grenzen van meerdere organisaties plaatsvinden. Ook Aeres ziet dat verbinding tussen professionals van de verschillende onderdelen van Aeres noodzakelijk is om over …