We investigated online intead of onsite working and found that adult workers generally see the benefits of screen meetings much more than students. Students seem to miss social contacts enormously. Adult employees now have the chance to integrate work and private life. A culture of working from home and informal care had already developed. But now there is a much broader understanding, even of employers who did not want their employees to work from home before.
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De onderzoeksgroep Teamprofessionalisering van de Hogeschool van Amsterdam (HvA) ondersteunt teams bij het versterken van hun professioneel handelen via de actiegerichte methodiek ‘Proeftuin Professionele Teams’. Wat betekent de (noodgedwongen) verschuiving van het offline naar het online begeleiden van onderwijsteams en wat leren we hiervan?
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.
