De implementatie van blended learning – waarbij fysiek leren wordt gecombineerd met online leren – staat bij veel onderwijsinstellingen hoog op de agenda, om activeren, intensiveren, flexibiliseren, differentiëren en/of personaliseren mogelijk te maken (Bos, 2022). Als gevolg hiervan krijgt de online leeromgeving binnen onderwijsinstellingen een steeds nadrukkelijkere rol. Om te komen tot betekenisvol leren in deze online leeromgeving (vaak in de vorm van een leermanagementsysteem, ook wel LMS genoemd), is het belangrijk dat studenten hierin actief aan de slag gaan met de aangeboden onderwijsinhoud en geïnteresseerd en gemotiveerd zijn om dit te (gaan) doen (Michael, 2006; Alhazmi & Rahman, 2012; Derboven et al., 2017; Grant-Smith et al., 2019). Echter, in de praktijk blijkt dat lang niet altijd sprake is van deze gewenste student engagement. Bijlage 1: Dit artikel geeft de resultaten weer van een onderzoek naar mogelijkheden om student engagement in het LMS te vergroten. Deze resultaten zijn tevens samengevat in twee overzichtelijke infographics. Bijlage 2: Infographic 1 omvat het gehele overzicht van de (mogelijk) te implementeren ontwerpprincipes. Bijlage 3: Infographic 2 bevat een stappenplan voor docenten om hun LMS te analyseren en te optimaliseren (laaghangend fruit).
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Context When the pandemic hit the world, teachers were forced to change their education from onsite to virtual overnight Understandably, teaching quality decreased in the beginning, as there was little experience in how to adapt the educational design Zuyd University of Applied Sciences ( recognized the problem that teachers were on different didactic and pedagogical levels when it comes to online education Unfortunately, the pandemic made it hard for teachers to connect with each other In the Domain of Health and Welfare, this led to the idea of establishing a professional learning community A professional learning community ( can be seen as an informal group of people who share knowledge and experiences among each other on a common topic they are all highly interested in Zuyd’s vision “passion for development” sets a good basis for the start of such a community. Steps we took In order to find out how a professional learning community can look like in Zuyd, the following steps were taken Firstly, we collected and evaluated literature and best practices around the topic Based on our findings we developed an interview guideline and conducted interviews with eight teachers from the Domain of Health and Welfare Throughout the whole report a SWOT analysis was performed with the literature and best practices filling opportunities and threats and the interviews providing content for strengths and weaknesses Main findings From these sources, we derived enablers for a successful learning community, which led to recommendations for Zuyd on how to strategically position, implement and organize a PLC One of our major recommendations is to make didactic and pedagogical skills an important topic within Zuyd in order to strategically implement the learning community into Zuyd’s strategy Furthermore, we recommend giving the lead in organizing and facilitating the PLC to the blended learning task force To collect a diverse set of interested employees to the core group, the educational managers should personally approach teachers that might be interested The sense of urgency around the topic needs to be addressed regularly through the directors of the Domain, the task force of blended learning, as well as the PLC itself In this way, interest in the topic of didactic and pedagogical skills and blended learning can be enhanced In the report we go into greater detail on how to organize and apply these recommendations. We are convinced that implementing these steps will pay off in the future and will successfully enhance competencies on blended learning and didactic and pedagogical skills through knowledge exchange.
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Deze publicatie benoemt 19 ontwerpprincipes die docenten kunnen gebruiken om hun lessen op innovatieve en didactische wijze te ondersteunen met onderwijstechnologie. Denk bijvoorbeeld aan co-constructie, simulatie of rollenspel. Dit overzicht kwam tot stand na systematisch literatuuronderzoek in het onderzoeksproject Designing and Evaluating Innovative Mobile Pedagogies. Het lectoraat Teaching, Learning & Technology participeerde in dit project met diverse internationale partners.
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The Research Centre of Teaching, Learning & Technology from Inholland University of Applied Sciences is collaborating (2017 - 2021) in the transnational European funded Erasmus+ research project Designing & Evaluating Innovative Mobile Pedagogies (DEIMP). The increasing ubiquity of mobile devices, and ongoing technical developments, are providing educators and learners with exciting new opportunities for supporting their teaching and learning. However, educators struggle to recognize and exploit the pedagogical possibilities of mobile devices and tend to replicate existing pedagogical practice. Researchers of the DEIMP-project are doing research into the principles of innovative mobile pedagogies. The aim of this project is to help educators build knowledge and understanding of innovative mobile pedagogies. In this animation the principles of innovative mobile pedagogies are discussed.
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