Het lectoraat Teaching, Learning & Technology onderzoekt de didactische inzet van technologie in leerprocessen. Hierbij kijkt het lectoraat naar thema’s als flexibilisering, gepersonaliseerd leren, activerende didactiek en de effecten van de inzet van technologie in de onderwijspraktijk en dan met name het hoger beroepsonderwijs. Wat tot op heden nog niet was onderzocht was of eerder uitgevoerd onderzoek een aantoonbare impact heeft gehad op de onderwijspraktijk. Dit onderzoek is de eerste fase in het inzichtelijk maken van de impact van onderzoek dat het lectoraat Teaching, Learning & Technology (TLT) van hogeschool Inholland heeft uitgevoerd. Er is daarbij gekeken naar onderzoek in de periode 2010 – 2021. De doelstelling is weer te geven hoe in eerder onderzoek beïnvloedbare impactfactoren zijn vormgegeven. Op basis van deze beschrijving kunnen wellicht aanbevelingen worden gedaan aan het lectoraat waarmee de impact van door hen uitgevoerd onderzoek in relatie tot deze factoren, vergroot kan worden. De onderzoeksvraag is: Hoe beschrijven belanghebbenden de impact van door het lectoraat Teaching, Learning & Technology uitgevoerd onderzoek in relatie tot de beïnvloedbare impactfactoren aangaande het onderzoek, de disseminatie en de (ervaren) gebruikswaarde? Voor het beantwoorden van deze onderzoeksvraag maakten we gebruik van een convergent mixed methods design, waarbij een nieuw conceptueel model als basis diende voor de analyse van data uit het praktijkonderzoek. Daarbij hebben we drie typen data verzameld, namelijk een kwalitatieve documentanalyse (N=31), een survey (N=6) en semi-gestructureerde interviews met participanten van de survey (N=4). Uit het onderzoek bleek dat belanghebbenden vooral de onderzoeker aanwijzen als primaire bron van impact. Impact begint en eindigt bij de onderzoeker, vooral in de mate waarin die zich inzet om het onderzoek relevant te maken en te laten aansluiten op vragen vanuit de onderwijspraktijk. Ten aanzien van de wijze waarop impact in toekomstig onderzoek kan worden bewerkstelligd, benoemen we een aantal aandachtspunten. Deze aanbevelingen zijn vooral gericht op de wijze waarop onderzoekers van het lectoraat gestructureerd aandacht kunnen besteden aan de vormgeving van de samenwerking en aan het concreet in beeld brengen van verwachtingen en beoogde impact in een vroegtijdig stadium.
What would Dutch society lose if the Tourism and Recreation sector does not survive and what is needed to preserve its societal value and, preferably even, enhance this value? In this report a combination of methods is used to answer the research question: a literature study, case studies, and a survey among entrepreneurs. A substantial number of scientific articles, advisory reports and conference contributions were analysed in various contexts and for different forms of T&R. In the literature study societal contributions were brought together in a structured manner. The cases reflect the breadth of the sector and serve as good examples of how the sector achieves its societal value, but they also illustrate the challenges. The survey produced several insights. Respondents were asked, for instance, to indicate for each societal value whether they saw a positive, negative or no contribution of the sector. By means of a points system a top 25 was composed and put into a table., this table was used to structure the findings from the study.
Societal resilience is an emerging paradigm. It refers to responses and strategies at the level of individuals, groups, organizations, and societies that are dealing with complex societal problems. At the same time, these responses contribute to innovative solutions that make society more resilient to current and future challenges. Societal resilience is, however, conceptually relatively undefined. This ambiguity is generally seen as problematic for scholarly work. In this chapter, the authors show that societal resilience is an important social concept because of its openness. To study resilience requires research methodologies that engage many actual stakeholders. Collaborating with societal stakeholders allows not only for co-generating knowledge of local relevance, but also stimulating a comprehensive and critical research approach. Therefore, the current openness of societal resilience does not constitute an undesirable theory gap. It enables the possibility of having plural perspectives based on the complex realities on the ground.
Due to societal developments, like the introduction of the ‘civil society’, policy stimulating longer living at home and the separation of housing and care, the housing situation of older citizens is a relevant and pressing issue for housing-, governance- and care organizations. The current situation of living with care already benefits from technological advancement. The wide application of technology especially in care homes brings the emergence of a new source of information that becomes invaluable in order to understand how the smart urban environment affects the health of older people. The goal of this proposal is to develop an approach for designing smart neighborhoods, in order to assist and engage older adults living there. This approach will be applied to a neighborhood in Aalst-Waalre which will be developed into a living lab. The research will involve: (1) Insight into social-spatial factors underlying a smart neighborhood; (2) Identifying governance and organizational context; (3) Identifying needs and preferences of the (future) inhabitant; (4) Matching needs & preferences to potential socio-techno-spatial solutions. A mixed methods approach fusing quantitative and qualitative methods towards understanding the impacts of smart environment will be investigated. After 12 months, employing several concepts of urban computing, such as pattern recognition and predictive modelling , using the focus groups from the different organizations as well as primary end-users, and exploring how physiological data can be embedded in data-driven strategies for the enhancement of active ageing in this neighborhood will result in design solutions and strategies for a more care-friendly neighborhood.
The pace of technology advancements continues to accelerate, and impacts the nature of systems solutions along with significant effects on involved stakeholders and society. Design and engineering practices with tools and perspectives, need therefore to evolve in accordance to the developments that complex, sociotechnical innovation challenges pose. There is a need for engineers and designers that can utilize fitting methods and tools to fulfill the role of a changemaker. Recognized successful practices include interdisciplinary methods that allow for effective and better contextualized participatory design approaches. However, preliminary research identified challenges in understanding what makes a specific method effective and successfully contextualized in practice, and what key competences are needed for involved designers and engineers to understand and adopt these interdisciplinary methods. In this proposal, case study research is proposed with practitioners to gain insight into what are the key enabling factors for effective interdisciplinary participatory design methods and tools in the specific context of sociotechnical innovation. The involved companies are operating at the intersection between design, technology and societal impact, employing experts who can be considered changemakers, since they are in the lead of creative processes that bring together diverse groups of stakeholders in the process of sociotechnical innovation. A methodology will be developed to capture best practices and understand what makes the deployed methods effective. This methodology and a set of design guidelines for effective interdisciplinary participatory design will be delivered. In turn this will serve as a starting point for a larger design science research project, in which an educational toolkit for effective participatory design for socio-technical innovation will be designed.
In recent years, ArtEZ has worked on a broadly supported strategic research agenda on the themes New Ecologies of Matter (ecological challenges), Social Equity (social-societal issues), (Un)Learning Practices (educational innovations) and (Non)CybernEtic Fabric (technological developments). Building on these strategic themes, the ArtEZ Research Collective as developed an international research strategy to become a valuable partner in the relevant Horizon Europe (HEU) areas of Environment, Industry and Social science and humanities. With its specific knowledge position and approach from arts and creativity, ArtEZ is convinced that it can play a distinctive role in European consortia to tackle various challenges in these areas, in particular from the perspective and research topics of the professorships Fashion and Tactical Design. To achieve its ambitions and goals in its targeted research topics, ArtEZ is convinced that a combination of international connections and local applications is key for successful impact. Building upon existing relations and extending the international research position requires extra efforts, e.g., by developing a strong international framework of state-of-the-art research results, impacts and ambitions. Therefore ArtEZ needs to (further) build on both its international network and its supportive infrastructure. With this proposal ArtEZ is presenting its goals and efforts to work on its international recognition as a valuable research partner, and to broaden its international network in cutting-edge research and other stakeholders. With regards to its supporting infrastructure, ArtEZ has the ambition to expand the impact of the Subsidy Desk to become a professional partner to the professorships. This approach requires a further professionalization and extension of both the Subsidy Desk organization and its services, and developing and complementing skills, expertise and competences to comply to the European requirements.
