Zoekresultaten

Connecting higher education, business and research to develop a future educational ecosystem

The ever increasing technological developments and greater demands from our society for qualitative better, safer, sustainable products, processes and systems are pushing the boundaries of what is possible from an engineer’s perspective. Besides the (local) grand challenges in energy, sustainability, health and mobility the world is getting smaller due to advances in communication and digitalization. The exponential increase of complexity and data driven systems (big data) which are integrated and connected to different networks calls for rethinking and inventing new business models [1]. To stay competitive in the world OEM’s and SME’s have to develop breakthrough technological, innovative and advanced systems and processes. These changes have a major impact on engineering education. The industry needs engineers with different competences and skills to fulfil the challenges and demands mentioned earlier. Universities should follow up on these changes and can only deliver and prepare the engineers of the future by close collaboration with the high tech industry. Fontys University is fully aware of this and developed a Centre of Expertise in High Tech Systems & Materials (CoE HTSM) to close the gap between the university and industry. This CoE is a public-private cooperation where applied research, projects and educational programs for different curricula are being developed and executed. By making the industry partner and giving them a role within the university, the engineering education programs and the future engineering profile can be better aligned in a faster and more structural way.

Storytelling as a tool to design museum experiences: the case of the Secret Marquise.

This article describes how the 4 period rooms of the city museum in the Dutch town of Bergen op Zoom were redesigned using storytelling and how this design has been received by visitors. For this redesign, rooms were reframed as sets of the story of Marie Anne van Arenberg, Marquise of Bergen op Zoom, and the objects as props to stage her story, which was full of secrets and of unexpected turning points. The visitor is enticed to discover cues to unlock these secrets in order to get a grip on her story while exploring the museum space. This is however not a treasure hunt, nor simply a game, but an exploration in which visitors are invited to discover and to create meaning and a journey into what matters to them. To this end, they have indeed to resort to their own frame of reference and to their personal life story in order to come to a narrative closure at the end of their visit. We used Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis to understand the visitors’ lived experience, both emotionally and sensorially at different moments and situations during the story-driven experience and to understand how the chosen design helps tell the story and how visitors use their personal context and frame of reference to make sense of it.

Studierendement verbeteren met inzet van informatievaardigheid: verkenning van de mogelijkheden.

Mijn visie op de arbeidsmarkt en talentmanagement

Geschreven door Annemieke Schildmeijer, studente bij Petra Biemans aan Hogeschool Inholland.

Concretisering eVisie

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Folksonomy

De behoefte om informatie te ordenen zodat ze 'beheersbaar' wordt, resulteert vaak in een top-down aanpak zoals bibliotheeksystemen die kennen. Betrekkelijk nieuw is de bottom-up aanpak, metadatering gebaseerd op het sociale aspect van consensus. Sybilla Poortman en Gerard Bierens zoomen in op de achtergronden van folksonomy en nemen de nieuwe 'sociale' tools onder de loep met aandacht voor toepassingsmogelijkheden in de bibliotheekomgeving. En ook: folksonomy versus taxonomie, samen door één deur of ieder een eigen ingang?