Advances in information and communication technologies (ICTs) as well as modern pedagogical perspectives have created new possibilities to facilitate and support learning in higher education (HE). Emerging technologies bring opportunities to reconsider teaching and learning. New ideas and concepts about …

The argument for many innovations in higher education provided by the Ministry of Education is the realization of a knowledge economy in the Netherlands (Ministerie van OC&W, 1999). A significant example of such an innovation to support the knowledge economy is the installation of professors (lectoren) …

De loopbaanstap van professional naar het management is doorgaans een moeilijke stap, of het nu een ingenieur, jurist, medicus of andere professional is die van het vakinhoudelijk werk tot het management geroepen wordt. Dit lezen we in de spaarzame literatuur over deze loopbaanbeweging en moet ook in …

The argument for many innovations in higher education provided by the Ministry of Education is the realization of a knowledge economy in the Netherlands (Ministerie van OC&W, 1999). A significant example of such an innovation to support the knowledge economy is the installation of professors (lectoren) …

Change is endemic in modern society, and the educational systems that operate in it. In Higher Education societal trends such as globalization and economic rationalism are impacting on teachers. Changes in the student population, new educational methods derived from shifting perspectives on the role …

News media in The Netherlands show great variety in the extent and ways, in which they realize media accountability online in terms of actor transparency, product transparency and feedback opportunities online. It is suggested that even those news rooms that seem to adhere to transparency and public …

This article takes the 3rd Global Survey Report of the International Association of Universities (IAU) as a starting point. The results of this worldwide survey were published in September 2010. The article discusses four questions from the survey that include internationalisation at Home (IaH) and internationalisation …

In het najaar van 2011 is de Hogeschool van Amsterdam gestart met een onderzoek naar ´wat werkt´ op het gebied van financiële educatie voor aandachtgroepen. Hiervoor is de samenwerking met acht werkveldorganisaties gezocht. Centrale onderzoeksvraag: met welke bestanddelen zijn doelstellingen als zelfwerkzaamheid …

Opleiden en leren zijn van strategisch belang voor arbeidsorganisaties omdat een duurzaam concurrentievoordeel niet langer te realiseren is op basis van bestaande producten, diensten en markten, maar alleen nog door middel van kennis. Weggeman (1997) verklaart de radicale wijziging in de betekenis van …

Over the last two decades, institutions for higher education such as universities and colleges have rapidly expanded and as a result have experienced profound changes in processes of research and organization. However, the rapid expansion and change has fuelled concerns about issues such as educators' …