written by Bernd Hader, Sebastian Schlund, Christina Schmidbauer & Setareh Zafari. Collaborative robots, short cobots, are small industrial robotic arms, that are intented to work together with humans in a shared workspace. Due to the trend of customization in production towards batch size one, there is a need for new approaches and solutions that enable rapid…
article written by Kristiina Mänty, Outi Rinta-Homi, Hanna Järvenoja and Susanna Kinnunen “It has become clearer that the adult’s role in children’s emotion regulation is to be the person who walks beside and supports children through emotions. And that rehearsing emotion regulation can be supported best in normal everyday situations.” (TunTuVa -program participant). Years of research show that…
article written by Ning Ding, Xiaoyan Xu & Marca Wolfensberger The rapidly changing business knowledge and its impact on curriculum design are explicitly addressed in previous research (e.g. Denton, et al, 2005). However, despite the dramatic alteration of business practices and cutting-edge advancements in economic theories in the last 25 years, the undergraduate curriculum has…
On behalf of the local organising committee, we want to introduce to you the theme of the EAPRIL 2022 conference “From formal education to continuous learning: learning as a collaborative interaction between learning professionals, research education & the workplace” Do you remember your first personal computer? A large apparatus that weighed a ton. And a…
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…
written by Jörg Holle, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany (soon to be ex-cloud coordinator of Cloud 5 ‘HRD & Workplace Learning’) When in 2012 former EAPRIL Chair Filip Dochy came up with the idea of the clouds, he felt that EAPRIL was reaching a number of members where it was necessary to install something like the…
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,…
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…
written by Zarina M. Charlesworth, EAPRIL Cloud 4 Coordinator Cloud 4 is dedicated to innovation in education to allow for student and educator well-being. This often goes through a phase of co-creation between educator and student. What better environment to do this in than a hybrid one? As the post-COVID classroom continues to evolve we…
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