In this chapter, we explore a case inwhich a problembased learning (PBL) course at Maastricht University is responsively evaluated. Within responsive evaluation, the value of an educational practice or educational regime is dependent on the multiple, sometimes conflicting, perspectives of stakeholders in the evaluation setting. Within this chapter, the reader first gets acquainted with responsive evaluation and its development, core concepts, and worldview premises. Then we present the case example. This is followed by a section on the issue of learning within and from evaluation. Finally, we deal with the issue of how local case knowledge provided within this chapter can be of global importance.
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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' technology professional development. Despite the educational value of emerging technologies in schools, the introduction has not yet enjoyed much success. Effective use of information and communication technologies requires a substantial change in pedagogical practice. Traditional training and learning approaches cannot cope with the rising demand on educators to make use of innovative technologies in their teaching. As a result, educational institutions as well as the public are more and more aware of the need for adequate technology professional development. The focus of this paper is to look at action research as a qualitative research methodology for studying technology professional development in HE in order to improve teaching and learning with ICTs at the tertiary level. The data discussed in this paper have been drawn from a cross institutional setting at Fontys University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands. The data were collected and analysed according to a qualitative approach.
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The After-Action Review (AAR) in Virtual Reality (VR) training for police provides new opportunities to enhance learning. We investigated whether perspectives (bird’s eye & police officer, bird’s eye & suspect, bird’s eye) and line of fire displayed in the AAR impacted the officers’ learning efficacy. A 3 x 2 ANOVA revealed a significant main effect of AAR perspectives. Post hoc pairwise comparisons showed that using a bird’s eye view in combination with the suspect perspective elicits significantly greater learning efficacy compared to using a bird’s eye view alone. Using the line of fire feature did not influence learning efficacy. Our findings show that the use of the suspect perspective during the AAR in VR training can support the learning efficacy of police officers.Practitioner summary: VR systems possess After-Action Review tools that provide objective performance feedback. This study found that reviewing a VR police training scenario from the bird’s eye view in combination with the suspect perspective enhanced police officers’ learning efficacy. Designing and applying the After-Action Review effectively can improve learning efficacy in VR.
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MUSE supports the CIVITAS Community to increase its impact on urban mobility policy making and advance it to a higher level of knowledge, exchange, and sustainability.As the current Coordination and Support Action for the CIVITAS Initiative, MUSE primarily engages in support activities to boost the impact of CIVITAS Community activities on sustainable urban mobility policy. Its main objectives are to:- Act as a destination for knowledge developed by the CIVITAS Community over the past twenty years.- Expand and strengthen relationships between cities and stakeholders at all levels.- Support the enrichment of the wider urban mobility community by providing learning opportunities.Through these goals, the CIVITAS Initiative strives to support the mobility and transport goals of the European Commission, and in turn those in the European Green Deal.Breda University of Applied Sciences is the task leader of Task 7.3: Exploitation of the Mobility Educational Network and Task 7.4: Mobility Powered by Youth Facilitation.
Teachers have a crucial role in bringing about the extensive social changes that are needed in the building of a sustainable future. In the EduSTA project, we focus on sustainability competences of teachers. We strengthen the European dimension of teacher education via Digital Open Badges as means of performing, acknowledging, documenting, and transferring the competencies as micro-credentials. EduSTA starts by mapping the contextual possibilities and restrictions for transformative learning on sustainability and by operationalising skills. The development of competence-based learning modules and open digital badge-driven pathways will proceed hand in hand and will be realised as learning modules in the partnering Higher Education Institutes and badge applications open for all teachers in Europe.Societal Issue: Teachers’ capabilities to act as active facilitators of change in the ecological transition and to educate citizens and workforce to meet the future challenges is key to a profound transformation in the green transition.Teachers’ sustainability competences have been researched widely, but a gap remains between research and the teachers’ practise. There is a need to operationalise sustainability competences: to describe direct links with everyday tasks, such as curriculum development, pedagogical design, and assessment. This need calls for an urgent operationalisation of educators’ sustainability competences – to support the goals with sustainability actions and to transfer this understanding to their students.Benefit to society: EduSTA builds a community, “Academy of Educators for Sustainable Future”, and creates open digital badge-driven learning pathways for teachers’ sustainability competences supported by multimodal learning modules. The aim is to achieve close cooperation with training schools to actively engage in-service teachers.Our consortium is a catalyst for leading and empowering profound change in the present and for the future to educate teachers ready to meet the challenges and act as active change agents for sustainable future. Emphasizing teachers’ essential role as a part of the green transition also adds to the attractiveness of teachers’ work.
Door producten en diensten inclusief te ontwerpen kunnen deze beter bruikbaar worden voor een breed publiek of voor specifieke groepen mensen die het lastig vinden hiermee om te gaan. Ontwerpers kunnen daarmee een belangrijke bijdrage leveren aan een inclusievere samenleving. Onderzoek naar inclusief ontwerpen heeft zich in het verleden vooral gericht op het begrijpen van de behoeften van eindgebruikers, maar recent is de nadruk meer komen te liggen op wat dit vraagt van ontwerpers. Zij ervaren uiteenlopende barrières in het gehele proces van opdrachtformulering tot ontwerp en implementatie. Daarom willen ze hun vermogen voor inclusief ontwerpen versterken, zodat ze beschikbare kennis, vaardigheden, houding, ontwerpprincipes, -tools, richtlijnen en voorbeelden ‘actionable’ kunnen maken in hun eigen ontwerppraktijk. Ontwerpopleidingen willen hun studenten deze competentie ook aanleren. In het project Active Inclusive Design (AID) gaan tien MKB-ontwerpbureaus met rijke uiteenlopende ervaring over inclusief ontwerpen samen met onderzoekers, docenten en co-ontwerpers in een learning community op zoek naar antwoorden op de volgende vraag: Hoe kan het vermogen tot inclusief ontwerpen van (toekomstige) ontwerpers in hun praktijk worden versterkt? Antwoorden op deze vraag worden gevonden door middel van actieonderzoek, waarbij verschillende acties door actieteams in de eigen ontwerp- en onderwijspraktijk worden uitgevoerd. De voorziene acties spitsen zich toe op het versterken van een inclusieve houding, toepassen van bestaande tools, richtlijnen en case-beschrijvingen, volwassenheid van inclusief ontwerpen bij opdrachtgevers en onderwijs over inclusief ontwerpen. De learning community voert regie over alle acties, zal regelmatig reflecteren op de processen die door de acties ontstaan en de opbrengsten daarvan, en zal voortbestaan en zich uitbreiden na afloop van het project. De resultaten van AID in de vorm van tools, werkwijzen, handreikingen en blauwdrukken worden beschikbaar gesteld aan de ontwerp- en onderwijspraktijk middels een website, presentaties en vakpublicaties. Een wetenschappelijke publicatie zal een bijdrage leveren aan theorievorming over ontwerpend vermogen.
