Listening to students’ voices might result in the design of more effective learning practices, assuming that learning and teaching can be attuned more adequately in those practices. Therefore, research was carried out to investigate the characteristics of successful innovative learning practices using Web 2.0 technologies to establish to what extent they might serve as a model for learning practices in more or less similar contexts. Five learning practices were investigated through a range of processes including document analysis and by interviewing students. Additionally, a cross case analysis was carried out to track down success factors of teaching and learning with Web 2.0 technologies, and to find out to what extent these practices are contextual. The analysis showed the importance of co-production and co-creation in learning practices supported by the use of Web 2.0 technologies, and the crucial role of students’ motivation and teacher’s willingness to experiment with new learning practices.
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Over the past 15 years the Web has transformed the ways in which we search for information and use it. In more recent years, we have seen the emergence of a new array of innovative tools that collectively go under the name of 'Web 2.0', in which the information user is also increasingly an information producer (i.e., prosumer), by sharing or creating content. The success of Web 2.0 tools for personal use is only partially replicated in the professional sphere and, particularly, in the academic environment in relation with research and teaching. To date, very few studies have explored the level of adoption of Web 2.0 among academic researchers in their research and teaching activity. It is not known in what way how and how much Web 2.0 is currently used within research communities, and we are not aware of the drivers and the drawbacks of the use of Web 2.0 tools in academia, where the majority of people is focused either on research or on teaching activities. To analyse these issues, i.e. the combined adoption of Web 2.0 tools in teaching and research, the authors carried out a survey among teaching and researching staff of the University of Breda in The Netherlands. This country was chosen mainly because it is on the cutting edge as far as innovation is concerned. An important driver in choosing the Breda University's academic community was the fact that one of the two authors of this survey works as senior researcher at this university. The purpose of our survey was to explore the level of adoption of Web 2.0 tools among the academic communities. We were interested in investigating how they were using these tools in the creation of scientific knowledge both in their research and teaching activity. We were also interested in analysing differences in the level of adoption of Web 2.0 tools with regard to researchers' position, age, gender, and research field. Finally, in our study we explored the issue of peer reviewing in the Web 2.0 setting. In particular, we investigated whether social peer review is regarded by researchers as a viable alternative to the current closed peer review system (single-blind or double blind). We approached about 60 staff members, but only 12 faculty members completed the survey fully. This means that our results can only be regarded as exploratory, but we still believe that they represent a complementary perspective with respect to previous studies.
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Businesses today are facing ever greater competition. Products and services need to be delivered faster, more efficiently and at lower price. Companies are forced to supply customised products: demand-oriented production. In order to meet this changing demand, companies have to subcontract and collaborate. An efficient web service system that defines tasks and roles is indispensable for achieving this. The spiders in the web are people. People have a number of tools to hand that enable them to design or adapt the process-oriented organisation. In this regard, people have access to an ever increasing number of standardised process objects (web services) that are available via the Internet.
The pressure on the European health care system is increasing considerably: more elderly people and patients with chronic diseases in need of (rehabilitation) care, a diminishing work force and health care costs continuing to rise. Several measures to counteract this are proposed, such as reduction of the length of stay in hospitals or rehabilitation centres by improving interprofessional and person-centred collaboration between health and social care professionals. Although there is a lot of attention for interprofessional education and collaborative practice (IPECP), the consortium senses a gap between competence levels of future professionals and the levels needed in rehabilitation practice. Therefore, the transfer from tertiary education to practice concerning IPECP in rehabilitation is the central theme of the project. Regional bonds between higher education institutions and rehabilitation centres will be strengthened in order to align IPECP. On the one hand we deliver a set of basic and advanced modules on functioning according to the WHO’s International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health and a set of (assessment) tools on interprofessional skills training. Also, applications of this theory in promising approaches, both in education and in rehabilitation practice, are regionally being piloted and adapted for use in other regions. Field visits by professionals from practice to exchange experiences is included in this work package. We aim to deliver a range of learning materials, from modules on theory to guidelines on how to set up and run a student-run interprofessional learning ward in a rehabilitation centre. All tested outputs will be published on the INPRO-website and made available to be implemented in the core curricula in tertiary education and for lifelong learning in health care practice. This will ultimately contribute to improve functioning and health outcomes and quality of life of patients in rehabilitation centres and beyond.
In het netwerkproject “Kuraag-Moed-Courage” willen we kunstenaars en cultuurwerkers uit de Duits/Nederlandse regio actief betrekken onder een thematisch motto. We bevinden ons in een opwarmend klimaat, zowel interpersoonlijk als meteorologisch, daarom willen we projecten en evenementen aan beide kanten van de grens verzamelen en deze gezamenlijk publiceren en presenteren die het effect van individuele actie en de verantwoordelijkheid van het individu in relatie tot respectvol omgaan met mensen en de natuur als inhoud hebben. Het doel is om een tweetalige Duits/Nederlandse website op te zetten en deze te vullen met projectlinks, platforms in sociale media te creëren, bijeenkomsten te organiseren, gezamenlijke projecten te initiëren zoals een gezamenlijk Duits/Nederlands koorproject - een gezamenlijke mars of iets dergelijks, gezamenlijke print - Publicaties, het informeren van pers, radio en televisie, het opzetten van een stimulerende Duits/Nederlandse adviesraad en het adviseren van de betrokken cultuurwerkers op het gebied van samenwerking.
Motivatie Het versterken van de samenwerking tussen relevante lectoraten door het ontwikkelen van een multidisciplinaire onderzoeksagenda op het terrein van Arbeid in de brede zin van het woord. Hierdoor kan de thematiek rondom toegang tot en behoud van arbeid vanuit meerdere kanten worden aangevlogen én kan focus en massa worden gecreëerd voor onderzoeksprogrammering en –funding. Daardoor kunnen we als lectoraten een belangrijke rol te spelen bij vraagstukken die betrekking hebben op het duurzaam (weer) aan het werk gaan én duurzaam aan het werk blijven. Achtergrond Om als individu zelfstandig en volwaardig te kunnen deelnemen aan onze participatiemaatschappij, is het hebben van werk cruciaal. Werk is echter voor mensen met minder of onvoldoende arbeids-, persoonlijk-, sociaal-, en cultureel kapitaal en/of toegang tot hulpbronnen steeds minder vanzelfsprekend. Naast traditioneel kwetsbare groepen – zoals laagopgeleiden, mensen met een chronische aandoening en migranten - zijn er nieuwe categorieën, waaronder veel middelbaar en hoog opgeleiden, voor wie het lastig is/wordt structureel betaald werk te vinden. De oorzaak ligt voornamelijk bij de toenemende digitalisering en robotisering in combinatie met de flexibilisering van de arbeidsmarkt. Ook werk op academisch niveau, dat gebaseerd is op regels, bijvoorbeeld accountancy en rechtspraak, zal steeds vaker (deels) geautomatiseerd kunnen worden (Est et al. 2015, Went et al. 2015). Anderzijds zijn er sectoren, zoals techniek en ICT, die een steeds grotere behoefte hebben aan hoogopgeleid personeel en waar het lastig is om voldoende gekwalificeerde mensen te krijgen. Tot slot zien we in alle sectoren een toename van stress- en burn-out klachten, die deels gerelateerd zijn aan traditionele, functioneel ingerichte organisaties. Het bovenstaande biedt geen rooskleurig beeld voor grote groepen in de samenleving en vanuit een breed Platform Arbeid willen we de thema’s op het terrein van arbeid vanuit meerdere perspectieven benaderen en in samenhang beschouwen.
