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Nivja de Jong listed among 2% most influential scientists 14 November 2024
Professor Nivja de Jong has been included in the list of most influential scientists by Elsevier Data Repository. This list of scientists with the hig...
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‘Our future depends on funding for education research’ 09 September 2024
Higher education research improves the quality of education. And these investments more than pay for themselves in terms of well-being and prosperity....
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How research and teaching can reinforce each other 15 July 2024
Every year, the dissertation prize is awarded to the best dissertation of the past year by the Association for Educational Research (VOR). Marjon Baas...
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Using mobile technology for self-directed language learning 01 July 2024
Self-directed learning is more suitable for intermediate and advanced language learners than for beginners.
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How do you evaluate quality of teaching? 14 May 2024
What do we really know about educational quality and its measurement? This was the subject of the first Higher Education Knowledge Café.
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Education through a cultural lens 06 May 2024
Teachers viewed multicultural classes with VR glasses and discussed that for the study 'Culturally responsive teaching in multicultural classes'.
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‘Language is part of your identity; we need to teach children this from an early age’ 04 March 2024
Language is omnipresent: when you talk, app or meet in Teams. Understanding how we communicate with one another and what communication does to us is e...
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Helping students with micro-macro thinking in chemistry 21 November 2023
How do classroom demonstration experiments help students learn chemical reasoning? Marie-Jetta den Otter, PhD student at ICLON, researched this. She d...
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Why is higher education not making more use of Open Educational Resources? 15 September 2023
In higher education, Open Educational Resources (OER) are available for anyone to use, but they are not widely used. Marjon Baas, PhD student at ICLON...
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Increasing student participation in schools 01 September 2023
Young people have the right to be involved in decision-making on matters that affect them, including their education. Ben Smit, researcher at ICLON, s...
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How do teachers learn in a work placement programme? 13 February 2023
Na Zhou (PhD at ICLON) researched how vocational teachers’ learning takes place in a work placement programme and how their learning supports their te...