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…
written by Egide Maassen PhD, senior policy advisor research & education, Utrecht University of Applied Sciences Establishing multidisciplinary collaboration in learning communities by universities, businesses and a variety of other stakeholders in the triple or even quadruple helix is a challenge. The system complexity and relational dynamics of learning communities are challenging, due to multiple…
Our educational research lab POINT was nominated for the Best Practice-Based Research Award. Therefore we had the opportunity to present our project at the EAPRIL Conference. It was a great experience and the best of all was that we won the award! A great reward for our work! EAPRIL offers a platform for all sorts of practice-based…
by MA. Mathieu Payn; Prof. HEP Dr Lionel Alvarez; Prof. HEP Dre Kostanca Çuko & MA. Ania Tadlaoui-Brahmi With this poster, we simply wanted to lay the foundation of an ambitious project that combines education science and informatics, to support a respectful digitalization of K-12 education. When a skill is developed by a student, everyone…
written by Prof. Karen Seashore Louis, University of Minnesota (USA) I have had a circuitous journey to a presentation that will focus on how dynamic and positive relationships support teachers and students. In the early 1990s, I challenged my teacher, school leader, and scholarly colleagues to reconsider almost everything that was being written about school…
Education is an often-researched field. Valuable insights from research are not sufficiently embedded in practice, yet, because not all studies are in line with educational practice. This is a missed opportunity for both science and practice. POINT brings these worlds together in order to improve the value of research and to enhance tailored education. POINT means…
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