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Design science research approach a way for implementing competence based internships

Since 2000, all Dutch Universities of Professional Education are confronted with three major renewals. The first was the European agreement to implement the Bachelor-Master system in Higher Education. The second was the strong tendence to renew eduction towards Competence Based Education. The third renewal came from the decision of the ministery of Education to contract lectures (lectoren) and research networks (kenniskringen) to improve research competences among students. Basic idea behind the latest renewal was that if students from Universities of Professional Education bring in more knowledge in companies, during and after their study, this will stimulate the innovative power of Dutch small and medium enterprices (SME’s). Educational developers have been very bussy with these renewals. Under the cloak of national assurance guidelines and external panels of inspection many educational developers automatically tended to use the instrumental paradigm for many design contexts. In accordance with the research of Gustafson (1993) and Richey (1993) we raised questions about the relevance of the instrumental paradigm for educational design contexts, because often the means-end thinking of the instrumental approach have seemed to be out of place. This research project by Lappia, De Boer & Van Rennes took place in 2006 at INHOLLAND university of professional education in the western part of The Netherlands with four pilots at School of Technology, Social Work, Education and Economics. The researchers started from the assumption that improving competence-based internships could not been based on an instrumental paradigma, because of the lack of absolute standards and the need to support deliberation among stakeholders. The Design Science Approach of Van Aken (2004) and Andriessen (2004) was been used to reveal field-tested and grounded technological rules as design specifications for improvement tools. Beside that the research project used the communicative paradigm (Visscher-Voerman & Gustafson, 2004) to reach consensus among the practitioners, who accompanion students during their internships in organisations in order to achieve a growth of competences in the choosen working field. Participants in the research project were employees of the School of Education, The School of Technology and the School of Economics, the department of Education, Quality, Research and development (OKR). Conditions for participating in the project were that the Schools recognized the problems with implementing Competence Based Internship and the School had to set the employees whe participated in the project free for half a day during the project. The Schools as stakeholders in the project were primary interested in solution of their practical problem (practical stream). The department of Education, Quality, Research and development was interested in solution of the pratical problem for dissemination reasons, but would also learn new strategies for implementation (knowledge stream). Therefore was choosen to follow the Design Science Research Approach.

Door leefstijl naar gezondheid. De mythe van het bewegen

Er lijkt een duidelijke mate van evidentie te bestaan betreffende de relatie fysieke activiteit, respectievelijk fitheid en gezondheid in de algemene populatie en bij bepaalde pathologieën. Er is evenwel nog behoefte aan verder wetenschappelijk onderzoek naar mogelijke determinanten en onderliggende mechanismen, als ook naar evidentie bij bepaalde, specifieke aandoeningen. Tevens mag duidelijk zijn dat ondanks de bestaande evidentie fysieke activiteit/oefening te weinig toegepast wordt in de gezondheidszorg. Het onderzoek naar de effectiviteit van gezondheidskundige interventies is dan ook uitermate belangrijk. Dit lectoraat hoopt dan ook een bescheiden bijdrage hieraan te kunnen leveren. Hiervoor heeft zij reeds afspraken tot samenwerking met de academische en medische wereld (in Utrecht, Amsterdam, Maastricht en Leuven), met de gezondheidszorg (RIVM Bilthoven en GG&GD Utrecht) en met de beroepen- of bedrijfswereld (Politie regio Utrecht; Enraf Nonius, Delft). De beoogde doelstellingen zullen echter naar alle waarschijnlijkheid beduidend meer tijd in beslag nemen dan de periode van 4 jaar die de Stichting Kennis Ontwikkeling voorzien heeft met betrekking tot het oprichten en financieren van de lectoraten.

Providing in-between meals during dialysis treatment contributes to an adequate protein and energy intake in hemodialysis patients

Digitalization of HRM: designing a simulation model for HR decision making

To aid HR practitioners in their design of firm specific HRM configurations, andcontribute to the state of the art HRM knowledge, we created a simulation model. In this paper we present the simulation model, and the serious game in which it was implemented, but focus on the practical and academical implication of creating and using our initial HRM simulation model.Deciding which HR-practices to select, and how to design them in a multiyear HRMconfiguration is a challenging task for any HR-practitioner due to the large number of interrelated options to pick from. In particular as, according to configurational HRM, the configuration of HR-practices needs to reflect the organizational strategy (vertical alignment) and show internal consistency (horizontal alignment). Currently, no (technological) tool aids HR-practitioners in their quest to design an aligned HRM configuration. To fill this void, we created an HRM simulation model and used it in a serious game which was played during workshops with HR-practitioners.Configurational HRM postulates that HRM configuration need to be both verticallyand horizontally aligned. However, to date, no specific information on how to make these levels of alignment happen is present. As a result, no specific hypothesis based on configurational HRM has been defined and empirical validation of this mode of theorizing is limited. Using the simulation model and serious game we aspire to specify the configurational mode of theorizing with a new level of detail enabling more precise empirical exploration of configurational HRM.The creation of an HRM simulation model and serious game proved to beworthwhile. During the workshops, HR-practitioners stated that the simulation model and game enables them to get to grips with the complexity of designing a firm specific HRM configuration. Furthermore, the simulation model enables us to specify configurational HRM to a new level of detail enabling a wide variety of research opportunities. The simulation model, serious game, and implications are discussed in this paper.

SMART TEXTILE BASED REMOTE IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM

Within this research a smart textile based light sensor was developed and integrated into a technical demonstrator of a remote identification system. This sensor is based on polymeric optical fibers (POFs) which contain fluorescent dopants and allows a remote detection using an optical laser pulse for identification. A possible use case for this system is remote identification to avoid “friendly fire” incidents.The smart textile sensor can be integrated with a very low footprint in protective textiles or other equipment of the individual. Besides defense applications, the system could also be adopted for applications in which a safe, secure and fast remote identification is needed.

Recensie van Talentenwijzer Talenontwikkelingsprogramma van D. Hiemstra (2012)

De talentenwijzer is gebaseerd op onderzoek dat positieve feedback en stimulering studenten helpt bij het (verder) onwtikkelen van hun talenten. Interessant materiaal voor bijv. studieloopbaanbegeleiding.