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Design science research approach a way for implementing competence based internships

Since 2000, all Dutch Universities of Professional Education are confronted with three major renewals. The first was the European agreement to implement the Bachelor-Master system in Higher Education. The second was the strong tendence to renew eduction towards Competence Based Education. The third renewal came from the decision of the ministery of Education to contract lectures (lectoren) and research networks (kenniskringen) to improve research competences among students. Basic idea behind the latest renewal was that if students from Universities of Professional Education bring in more knowledge in companies, during and after their study, this will stimulate the innovative power of Dutch small and medium enterprices (SME’s). Educational developers have been very bussy with these renewals. Under the cloak of national assurance guidelines and external panels of inspection many educational developers automatically tended to use the instrumental paradigm for many design contexts. In accordance with the research of Gustafson (1993) and Richey (1993) we raised questions about the relevance of the instrumental paradigm for educational design contexts, because often the means-end thinking of the instrumental approach have seemed to be out of place. This research project by Lappia, De Boer & Van Rennes took place in 2006 at INHOLLAND university of professional education in the western part of The Netherlands with four pilots at School of Technology, Social Work, Education and Economics. The researchers started from the assumption that improving competence-based internships could not been based on an instrumental paradigma, because of the lack of absolute standards and the need to support deliberation among stakeholders. The Design Science Approach of Van Aken (2004) and Andriessen (2004) was been used to reveal field-tested and grounded technological rules as design specifications for improvement tools. Beside that the research project used the communicative paradigm (Visscher-Voerman & Gustafson, 2004) to reach consensus among the practitioners, who accompanion students during their internships in organisations in order to achieve a growth of competences in the choosen working field. Participants in the research project were employees of the School of Education, The School of Technology and the School of Economics, the department of Education, Quality, Research and development (OKR). Conditions for participating in the project were that the Schools recognized the problems with implementing Competence Based Internship and the School had to set the employees whe participated in the project free for half a day during the project. The Schools as stakeholders in the project were primary interested in solution of their practical problem (practical stream). The department of Education, Quality, Research and development was interested in solution of the pratical problem for dissemination reasons, but would also learn new strategies for implementation (knowledge stream). Therefore was choosen to follow the Design Science Research Approach.

Vandaag de vraag, morgen het aanbod. Vraaggestuurde zorg in ontwikkeling

Demand Driven Care plays a key role in the modernization of the Dutch health care system. This modernization is needed because a) clients’ needs for care increases quantitatively as well as in diversity, b) the financial means for collective services are inadequate, c) the accessibility of health care will depend on clients’ own responsibility, and d) shortage of professional care givers is foreseen. In the Netherlands, the need for professional care givers increases with an average of 2% every year. Demand Driven Care is an instrument for liberalization of public activities. The Faculty Chair Demand Driven Care focuses on those activities that will contribute to sufficient care supply. Within the program of the chair, activities are executed under the theme of Integrated Care, Substitution, Patient Centred Care, and Home Care Technology with an emphasis on gerontechnology. The Faculty Chair wants to contribute to a better integration and coherence in care. So that clients live and function independently as long as possible and are able to enhance their self management. In addition, health care professionals should be aware of demand driven processes and should have a demand driven attitude towards clients.

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Forget the Pot of Gold

How and where can Dutch design entrepreneurs find work in Germany? This was the question DutchDFA put to the research team at Inholland University of Applied Sciences in February 2010. But the researchers took a different angle, and generated unexpected data, revealing patterns, and valuable new insights into practicing design and architecture abroad.

Voor wat en wie het waard is...

As labour is becoming more and more knowledge controlled, it also getting closer to the individual person. We sometimes seem to forget this. To an increasing extent it is becoming a part of oneself and therefore of the personal identity. The increasing humanization of labour asks for an HRM-policy and an organizational context in which the individual is able to identify with the organization, colleagues, customers/clients and product. Heterononimous or abstract organizations, organizations in which the employees and civilians have been reduced to numbers and in which there is no real consideration for the individual differences, have to make way for organizational structures in which the individual feels (self) responsible again. The future lies with personal, tribally inspired organizations in which managers will be leaders and where employees and managers can show social commitment. Images like that of: the egocentric boss who by making swift career moves avoids responsibility for employee/co-worker and customer/client; of colleagues taking the day off without consultation or who are putting their phone through to someone else without saying so beforehand, meeting rooms which are not being cleaned up after use and the image of a Xerox machine not being refilled up with paper by anyone, are all too frequently dismissed as not being part of productivity.

Panta rhei. Over dissemineren van farmaceutische innovaties

Kijkend naar de ontwikkelingen in de medische en farmaceutische zorg, concludeer ik dat het belang van innovaties niet altijd in overeenstemming is met de snelheid waarmee die innovaties hun plek krijgen in het standaardhandelingsarsenaal van zorgverleners. Veranderingen in de zorg gaan vaak langzaam en doorbraken worden slecht herkend. De vraag is hoe dit komt. Er blijken vele factoren van invloed op het mogelijke succes van een innovatie. Van groot belang is het inzicht dat innoveren meer is dan iets bedenken en dan maar aannemen dat het wel zal worden opgepikt door de (potentiële) doelgroep. Het aan de man brengen (‘dissemineren’) van de innovatie is mede bepalend voor een succesvolle implementatie. In de farmaceutische zorg is voor deze overbruggingsfunctie een belangrijke rol weggelegd voor de farmakundige. Mijn lectoraat, dat is gekoppeld aan de opleiding Farmakunde, zal zich bezighouden met het onderzoek naar het proces om farmaceutische innovaties te dissemineren. In deze openbare les licht ik de context en consequenties van dit onderzoeksthema nader toe. Ik begin met een uitleg van de farmakundige en diens toegevoegde waarde in het werkveld (hoofdstuk 1), en vervolg met een korte beschrijving van recente veranderingen binnen de zorg (hoofdstuk 2). In het begeleiden van die veranderingen ligt een belangrijke meerwaarde van de farmakundige, en de missie van dit lectoraat. Daarna (hoofdstuk 3) beschouwen we het innoveren in de (farmaceutische) gezondheidszorg in meer detail. Hoofdstuk 4 geeft diverse handvatten voor het kiezen van de juiste interventies om de afstand tussen de innovator en de toekomstige gebruiker te overbruggen en zodoende de toegang voor de gebruiker tot de innovatie te verbeteren. De keuze van de onderzoekslijnen van mijn lectoraat, zoals in hoofdstuk 5 beschreven, is daarvan afgeleid