What happens next? Diversity and equality for those studying and working in education in a ‘post-pandemic’ context.

article written by Dr. Anthony Thorpe, senior lecturer in leadership and management at the University of Roehampton, London and coordinator of EAPRIL Cloud 8 ‘Diversity & Equality in Different Contexts’ Much was promised about how things would change for the better in a ‘post-pandemic’ world. Yet those promises appear unfulfilled as many European governments speak…

Connecting educators and (student) teachers in continuous learning

written by Henderijn Heldens (Phd.) and  Nanke Dokter (Phd.), Fontys University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands (Coordinators of Cloud 2: Educators’ Professional Development) In our fast-evolving society, education is facing increasing complexity  and interconnection (Means, 2018) . This challenges not only students’ learning, but also educators’ and teachers’ learning (Ros, Lieskamp & Heldens, 2018). Given these challenges,…

What can we learn from MOOC Design?

article written by Ning Ding, PhD, University of Applied Sciences Groningen, the Netherlands (Coordinator of Cloud 6: Learning in Digital Era: Technology Enhanced Learning) Since the outbreak of CoVid-19, online education has become an undeniably common practice for educational practitioners. Teachers keep exploring an effective instructional design for their online courses. As of now we…