This book provides insight into an ambitious project to re-invent the educational method practiced at NHL Stenden. The predecessors used different ap­proaches to the delivery of education. One of them used Competency-Based Education, whilst the other practiced Problem-Based Learning. The choi­ce to combine …

Internationalization in higher education has been a substantial and impactful phenomenon, which has proven to be of high value to both the Dutch society and the global community as a whole. With the heightened tendency of bachelor and master degree-seeking students opting to enroll to study programs …

A vital element of liberal democracy is the relationship between a government and its citizens, which is often characterised by the concept of political support or its reverse, political alienation. Ideally, this relationship should display political support since this indicates a high level of trust …

Effectuation is a theory originating in the literature of entrepreneurship, that focuses on behavioral attitudes of founders of multiple companies with over 15 years of experience and proven superior performance, so-called expert entrepreneurs. It includes a set of decision-making principles that these …

This research investigates the process of soloistic development on the double bass through the compositional application of the partial series. There are many misconceptions surrounding this area of contemporary music and the avant-garde, relating largely to the sheer complexity of its notation and the …

Where in the 90s everyone had a hi-fi stereo sound system to play their favourite records or CDs, now we hardly have any favourite music, let alone a decent installation to play it on. Although we can hear everything ever made through Spotify or iTunes, we usually listen through a speaker on the smartphone …

Alternative dispute resolution (ADR) is constantly gaining ground, both at domestic and international level. New forms of dispute settlement with a mix of public and private components are emerging in fields where this was not the case until recent times, as some contributions to this Zoom-out have attempted …

This paper investigates the prospective application of arbitration by Transnational Private Regulation (TPR). It builds on the study of TPR developed by Fabrizio Cafaggi et al. TPR addresses the ever-increasing transfer of regulatory power from national to global levels, and from public to private regulators. …

It is essential that higher education students are trained to become critically-thinking professionals. Critical thinking (CT) is crucial for succeeding in future careers and, moreover, is an important life skill (Davies, 2013; Facione, 1990; Halpern, 2014; Van Gelder, 2005). More specifically, students …

Some sectors emphasize their tradition, such as beer, whiskey and wine, and other sectors pride themselves on continuous innovation in order to achieve ever better quality, such as detergent producers and (high) tech. Needless to say, both sides of the marketing strategy spectrum - tradition or continuous …