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Nivja de Jong listed among 2% most influential scientists 14 November 2024Professor 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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European CLIL community gathers in Leiden 08 November 2024Recently, ICLON welcomed some 75 colleagues from 15 European countries for a meeting on Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in research an...
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Political scientist teaches VWO pupils: ‘some knew more than I did at that age’ 05 November 2024It is a full classroom: more than 30 pupils from 5 and 6 vwo are present to listen to political scientist Leila Demarest's lecture. She gives a brief ...
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‘Our future depends on funding for education research’ 09 September 2024Higher 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 2024Every 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 2024Self-directed learning is more suitable for intermediate and advanced language learners than for beginners.
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Researcher teaching in the classroom: ‘We need to imitate nature more closely’ 27 June 2024How can we supply the growing world population with sustainable energy? At Laurens Lyceum in Rotterdam, Prof. Marc Koper speaks with the students abou...
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How do you evaluate quality of teaching? 14 May 2024What 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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World Teachers Festival: a celebration of globally-minded educators 07 May 2024On 21 March 2024, the ‘learners’ at Wolfert Bilingual in Rotterdam were not teenagers, but some 180 teachers and teacher educators from around the Net...
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Education through a cultural lens 06 May 2024Teachers viewed multicultural classes with VR glasses and discussed that for the study 'Culturally responsive teaching in multicultural classes'.
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Bilingual and international education central to World Teachers Programme 22 April 2024In this bilingual profile, you follow university teacher training with a special focus on language, culture and diversity in bilingual and internation...
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Interview with Markus Davidsen on his Comenius project 12 April 2024Assistant professor Markus Davidsen has received the Comenius grant, with which he wishes to improve secondary education on religion. In this intervie...
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‘Stemmen van Afrika’ wins popularisation prize: 'Language is more than grammar' 19 March 2024The Voices of Africa platform is ten years old and has just recently won the annual popularisation prize of the Netherlands Graduate School of Linguis...
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Escaping from a sarcophagus: students from the Living Education Lab minor create an educational tool 18 March 2024How do students start asking more questions on a museum visit? Let them free an Egyptian princess from a sarcophagus! In the minor Living Education La...
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‘Language is part of your identity; we need to teach children this from an early age’ 04 March 2024Language 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...