Judging informal learning interventions: A vignette study

Purpose: Informal learning is seen as the most important way to acquire and develop the skills and competencies required for work. The Dutch Defence organisation (DDO) aims to use the opportunities for development of employees that informal learning offers better and is looking for suitable interventions. Four possible interventions to improve...

Zelfsturend leren: Stichting Bedrijfsfonds Apotheken (SBA)

Helping behavior in a virtual crisis situation: Effects of safety awareness and crisis communication

Incident evaluations show that bystanders tend to help: they do not wait for professionals to arrive, but act as required by the situation at hand. In the present study, we investigated how safety awareness (induced before an accident happened) and providing a course of action by emergency services affect helping behavior after witnessing a...

Creatief Vermogen - de ontwikkeling van een meetinstrument voor leerlingen op school

Er bestaan veel verschillende definities van creativiteit en geen enkele wordt unaniem geaccepteerd. Wel zijn er een aantal uitgangspunten die door veel definities gedragen worden: 1 Creativiteit is nodig om succesvol te zijn; 2 Creativiteit is ontwikkelbaar; 3 Creativiteit heeft niveaus; 4 Creatieve eigenschappen van een individu zijn...

Does playing the serious game B-SaFe! make citizens more aware of man-made and natural risks in their environment?

The goal of the present study was to investigate whether playing a serious game concerning natural and man-made risks leads to increased risk awareness and additional information search. As an experimental task, we developed a serious board game. Fifty-six students participated in the experiment; half of them played the serious game whereas the...

Crisiscommunicatie in beweging

Voor bestrijding van een crisis, rampen of incidenten is de crisiscommunicatie naar burgers een steeds belangrijker wordend thema. Dat de rol van burgers meer prominent wordt, betekent dat op een andere wijze informatie vergaard wordt en wordt gedeeld. Dat burgers niet wachten totdat de hulpverleners ter plaatse zijn en zelf in actie komen,...

Blijvend investeren in ontwikkeling

Gewoon goed zijn in je vak is tegenwoordig niet meer voldoende. Wie doet nog precies hetzelfde werk als pakweg vier jaar geleden? Ook vakmensen zullen moeten blijven werken aan hun ontwikkeling, om duurzaam inzetbaar te blijven en optimaal te presteren. Wat hebben ze daarvoor nodig?

Activering van burgers

Wat gebeurt er als de elektriciteit langdurig uitvalt? Als de levering van gas of water stagneert midden in een strenge winter? Hoe zit het als er thuis of op kantoor brand uitbreekt? Welke maatregelen kun jijzelf nemen om je veiligheid op dit soort momenten te verbeteren?

iSELF: an internet-tool for self-evaluation and learner feedback

This paper describes the development of the iSELF: an Internet-tool for Self-Evaluation and Learner Feedback to stimulate self-directed learning in ubiquitous learning environments. In ubiquitous learning, learners follow their own trails of interest, scaffolded by coaches, peers and tools for thinking and learning. Ubiquitous learning solutions...

Specification of needs statements for training simulation development, verification and validation

The first step in any system life-cycle is the specification of a needs statement. Such a statement expresses the need for a system in terms of the problem that has to be addressed, how the system will be deployed to address the problem (i.e. intended use), and an initial (user) requirements specification and constraints for an appropriate...

Self-directed adult learning in a ubiquitous learning environment: A meta-review

Creation of technology-enhanced learning solutions for 24/7 professionals: Workshop Maastricht, The Netherlands, September 16, 2008

The objective of this workshop is to provide an interdisciplinary forum in which scientists and practitioners can exchange ideas on the integration of four principles when facing the educational challenges for 24/7 professionals: on-the-job learning, continuous learning, incorporation of the real-life context in the training and rapid...

Cre8ion of learning environments for critical tasks

Self-directed adult learning in a ubiquitous learning environment: A meta-review

In our rapidly changing technological society, formal training alone cannot meet the need for development of working individuals. Self-directed learning is seen as a solution for adult learners to keep up with these changes. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to identify the essential elements of selfdirected learning that should be integrated...