When firefighting, the combination of exposition to high temperatures, high physical demands and wearing (heavy and insulated) personal protective equipment lead to increased risk of heat stress and exhaustion in firefighters. Heat stress can easily evolve into a life-threatening heat stroke. Once heat …

Integrating internationalisation in learning outcomes and assessment has long been known to be a key issue in higher education. However, getting buy-in from academics and incorporating learning outcomes into a programme’s larger internationalisation goals can present a challenge. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/josbeelen …

Applied psychology in education can stand for social connection, for a world that is getting richer, in which more colours are accepted. Also, a world in which neurodiversity plays a key role. A world in which educational programs start from an in-depth understanding of target groups, guaranteeing that …

This article explores how concern about animal welfare and animal rights relates to ecological citizenship by discussing student assignments written about the Dutch Party for Animals or PvdD. ‘Animal welfare’, ‘animal rights’, and ‘ecological citizenship’ perspectives offer insights into strategic choices …

Lesson study is a professional development program that combines teachers’ active engagement and observation of teachers’ lessons. During a lesson study teachers collaborate in a lesson study team. In this study, four participating research supervisors have developed, taught, evaluated and redesigned …

On October 9, 8 local and regional partnerships introduced themselves at the start meeting of the Prevention Program Make space for health. Goal: getting to know each other and making agreements for collaboration and knowledge sharing in a learning network.

Youyou et al. showed that from 70 likes the algorithm could predict the personality better than friends, from 150 likes better than family members and from 300 likes even better than the test person himself. However, the machine learning algorithm does not know the person better than the colleagues, …

In this colomn it is argued that investing in education, healthcare and construction is investing in local economy and society. At least, if education perceives "get ready for a smart world" (the credo of Saxion University) as more than an uncritical adaptation to the latest products of the high-tech …

Politics defines many aspects of people’s lives, even when most of them are not directly involved in political processes and have no chance to do so. Born 2500 years ago in Athens, for broader public democracy became the way to influence their societies’ lives: discussions that were previously held behind …

The current Western Economy can be described as an experience economy which is focused on creating unique experiences for consumers. When emotional value is added to the experience of a product or service, consumers are willing to pay a higher price for these types of experiences than for products without …