This Work-in-Progress Innovate Practice Short Paper is concentrated around online teaching and learning and especially focused on the didactics in remote labs. In a remote lab, the lab equipment or instruments are geographically atanother place than the student (and/or lecturer) himself. Learning will take place through the internet. Insights from online teaching and learning help to define what is needed in the special case of teaching and learning in remote labs. Feedback and interaction remain key factors for effective learning. Typesof interaction in remote labs are: student-lecturer-, studentstudent-, student-content-, and student-interface interaction. These forms of interaction should be worked out when setting up a remote lab environment for students, taking onlineengagement into account. The purpose is to come with an overview of didactical methods for teaching- and learning in remote labs.
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Covid-19 made us realize that educational practices in higher education must change AND can change. A possible solution for practicing lab work is working in a remote lab: a real lab in which students and the equipment/instruments are physically apart. The concept of printed touchless electronics was taken as the leading principle for students in the Department of Electrical Engineering of a university of applied sciences. They got the assignment to write a programming code, with which they could control a robot. This robot was supposed to draw, with conductive ink, a pattern, that could function as a printed (light) sensor. The robot was situated in the lab, the students uploaded their code from home. Via a live stream, the students could follow the movements of the robot and the pen. From a didactical perspective, the goal was to find out if the selected didactical methods: teamwork and feedback via an internet platform and working with consultation hours, had the estimated effect. An interdisciplinary team of three lecturers was composed to guide the students. Students thought that the consultation hours were very helpful. The online teamwork between the students did not work so well. In the future, students would like to have more opportunities for testing and working with the remote lab.
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Deictic gestures are gestures we make during communication to point at objects or persons. Indicative acts of directing-to guide the addressee to an object, while placing-for acts place an object for the addressee’s attention. Commonly used presentation software tools, such as PowerPoint and Keynote, offer ample support for placing-for gestures, e.g. slide transitions, progressive disclosure of list items and animations. Such presentation tools, however, do not generally offer adequate support for the directing-to indicative act (i.e. pointing gestures). In this paper we argue the value of presenting deictic gestures to a remote audience. Our research approach is threefold: identify indicative acts that are naturally produced by presenters; design tangible gestures for multi-touch surfaces that replicate the intent of those indicative acts; and design a set of graphical effects for remote viewing that best represent these indicative acts for the audience. Clinton Jorge1, Jos P. van Leeuwen2, Dennis Dams3, Jan Bouwen4 1 University of Madeira, Madeira-ITI, Funchal, Portugal; 2 The Hague University of Applied Sciences, The Hague, Netherlands; 3,4 Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, Antwerp, Belgium Copyright shared between: University of Madeira, Madeira-ITI, Funchal, Portugal; The Hague University of Applied Sciences, The Hague, Netherlands; Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, Antwerp, Belgium
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The COVID-19 pandemic has forced higher education (HE) to shift to emergency remote teaching (ERT), subsequently influencing academic belonging and social integration, as well as challenging students' engagement with their studies. This study investigated influences on student engagement during ERT, based on student resilience. Serial mediation analyses were used to test the predictive effects between resilience, academic belonging, social integration, and engagement.
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Described are the results of an investigation in the appreciation of distance learning, limited to a case study with an online lab-experiment. Together with other educational institutes and companies Fontys University of Applied Sciences participated in a number of projects in which distance learning courses were developed. Some courses have been integrated in the regular curriculum. Our study was set up to get insight into the appreciation of students for this way of learning, especially concerning online lab-experiments. By using surveys and interviews after the students accomplished either a regular course or a distance learning course on the same object we tried to get a better understanding of how students used the course and appreciated it. Also we wanted to know whether an online lab-experiment is more or less effective than a regular one. Preliminary data analyses have shown that the appreciation of an online lab-experiment is dependent on a number of items, like the educational contents of the experiment itself, the way accompanying theory is presented, possibilities of doing the experiment in an alternative way, the organization around the experiment etc. It appears also that students give serious suggestions on developing other online lab-experiments.
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Described are the results of a study that was set up to get insight into the appreciation of students for distance learning, especially concerning online lab-experiments. We wanted to know whether an online lab-experiment is more or less effective than a regular one and how it can be used in IPD-projects. Preliminary data analyses have shown that the appreciation of an online lab-experiment is dependent on a number of items, like the educational contents of the experiment itself, the way accompanying theory is presented, possibilities of doing the experiment in an alternative way, the organization around the experiment etc. It appears also that students give serious suggestions on developing other online lab-experiments and the way to use it in IPD-projects. A description is given of the web-based experiment "cube measurement", which is carried out using a remotely operated robot and image processing functions. The students' appreciation is discussed and suggestions are given on how comparable experiments can contribute to work in an IPD environment.
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Als lector Teaching, Learning & Technology bij Hogeschool Inholland onderzoekt Nynke Bos de rol die technologie speelt en kan spelen om het leerproces van studenten te versterken. In haar lectorale rede gaat zij in op de kansen en bedreigingen van Blended Learning. Tegelijkertijd blikt zij ook vooruit naar de toekomst: welke rol speelt technologie in het onderwijs in 2030? Deze rede gaat over de inzet van digitale technologie in het onderwijs. Om de context te duiden, schetst hoofdstuk 1 hoe de onderwijsbenadering van het hoger onderwijs eruitziet en waar deze op de korte termijn naartoe gaat. Het tweede hoofdstuk gaat in op de rol die technologie speelt in het huidige onderwijs, in de vorm van blended learning. Het zet uiteen wat blended learning is en welke doelstellingen het kan hebben. Ook komt een aantal ontwerpmodellen voor blended learning langs. Het hoofdstuk sluit af met een analyse wat er nodig is (en wat er niet nodig is) voor breedschalige implementatie. Hoofdstuk 3 kijkt vooruit en bespreekt de opkomst van werken met authentieke beroepstaken en de relatie met een hybride leeromgeving. Het presenteert een aantal ontwerpoverwegingen voor het werken met authentieke taken in een hybride omgeving en bespreekt een aantal belangrijke aandachtspunten voor het werken met authentieke taken in een dergelijke omgeving. Hoofdstuk 4 gaat over theoretische uitgangspunten in relatie tot het ontwerpen van hybride leeromgeving, namelijk boundary crossing en seamless learning. Beide theorieën gaan uit van zogeheten grenzen. Binnen de ene theorie wordt het werken op de grens als een kans gezien, binnen de andere wordt de grens, of seam, gezien als een bedreiging. Hoofdstuk 5 doet uit de doeken hoe technologie het leren op en over deze grenzen kan ondersteunen; hoe studenten vloeiend over grenzen heen kunnen bewegen en hoe technologie kan dienen als verbinder tussen grenzen om het leerproces te bevorderen. Hoofdstuk 6 gaat ten slotte in op de randvoorwaarden in relatie tot de vaardigheden van studenten en de rol van het primair onderwijs hierbij. In het afsluitende hoofdstuk wordt het contextgebonden praktijkgericht onderzoek besproken dat het lectoraat Teaching Learning and Technology de komende jaren, in samenwerking met de onderwijspraktijk, zal uitvoeren.
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Door klimaatverandering worden in stedelijke gebieden steeds vaker normen en/of acceptatiegrenzen voor neerslag, hitte en droogte overschreden. Gemeenten en waterschappen hebben de taak om te zorgen voor een klimaatbestendige inrichting. Daarbij is de samenwerking met bewoners voor hen essentieel. Om de stap naar uitvoering te kunnen maken hebben professionals van gemeenten en waterschappen behoefte aan inzicht in effecten op microniveau (straten/gebouwen), lokale ervaringen en beleving door burgers, en hoe burgers betrokken kunnen worden bij maatregelen. Eén van de manieren om samen te werken met burgers is door hen te betrekken bij het in kaart brengen van risico's en maatregelen: burgerwetenschap. Burgerwetenschap en in het bijzonder participatieve monitoring is een vakgebied dat sterk in opkomst is. Het is een methode waarbij onderzoekers, professionals en maatschappelijke actoren zoals vrijwilligers en bewoners samenwerken om in lokale projecten data te verzamelen en te duiden.
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PowerPoint presentation used during a lecture of Peter van der Meer, professor Oil Palm & Tropical Forests at Van Hall Larenstein, at the International Conference Sustainability of Wetlands PHLB ULM Webinar Series #1 on Wetlands, on September 16, 2020.
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With this project we strived to contribute to structural reduction of post-harvest food losses and food quality improvement in the Kenyan avocado and dairy value chains through the application of technical solutions and tools as well as improved coordination in those food chains. The consortium had four types of partners: 1. Universities (2 Kenyan, 4 Dutch), 2. Private sector actorsin those chains, 3. Organisations supporting those chains, and 4. Network partners. The applied research has been implemented in cooperation with all partners, whereby students at involved universities conducted most of the field studies and all other consortium partners support and interact depending on the phases.The FORQLAB project targeted two areas in Kenya for both commodities, a relatively well-developed chain in the central highlands and a less-develop chain in Western-Kenya. The research methods were the business to business and multi-stakeholder (living lab) approaches to increase the potential for uptake of successful interventions in the chain. The project consisted of four phases: 1. Inventory and inception, 2. Applied research, 3. Spreading research outputs through living lab networks, 4. Translation of project output in curricula and trainings. The outcomes were: two knowledge exchange platforms (Living Labs) supported with some advice for sustainable food loss reduction, a research agenda, proposals for ICT and other tech solutions and an implementation strategy; communication and teaching materials for universities and TVETs; and knowledge transfer and uptake.
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