The Open Universiteit will support the OpenCourseWare Consortium as 'sustaining member' for the next 5 years. The past years the university already was 'just' a member. This consortium is a worldwide collaboration of more than 200 higher education institutions and associated organizations creating open educational content using a shared modelworldwide collaboration
30 March 2010 Empower Limburg organises interactive workshops on its pilots and projects. Empower Limburg is a network of 20 institutions, including the Open Universiteit, that wants to stimulate labour mobility in Limburg and that supports organisations and individuals to achieve this mobility. Empower Limburg was a pilot organisation in the TENCompetence project. (Continued in Dutch.)
March 18th 2010 dr. Hans Hummel will deliver his inaugural address as lector ‘Werkplekleren en ICT’ at the Institute for Education and Communication (IEC) of the Northern Polytechnic Leeuwarden (Noordelijke Hogeschool Leeuwarden). In his address Hans Hummel will expose his vision and programme for this lectorate.
In February 2010 the final TENCompetence review has taken place. The reviewers concluded that the project was very successful and all recommendations were accepted. The four-year TENCompetence project, funded by the EC, developed infrastructure for lifelong competence development in Europe. CELSTEC was one of the 15 European partners and coordinator of the TENCompetence project.
CELSTEC's Learning and Cognition programme is looking for a postdoctoral researcher to carry out the research project Sex differences in navigation through hypertext learning environments.
Friday 5 March 2010 the Centre for Learning Sciences and Technologies (CELSTEC) organizes for the third time a symposium for (future) users of the 4C-ID model. With over 60 registrations, the maximum number of participants has been reached.
28 May 2010 in study centre Eindhoven the next miniconference of the Master programma Learning Sciences takes place. This time the theme is Learning for and on the job. The miniconference is Dutch as is the continuation of this item.
Thursday March 4th 2010 dr. Saskia Brand-Gruwel gives a lecture at a minisymposium on Information skills at the Learning- and Innovation Centre (LIC) in Den Bosch. The lecture (and the continuation of this news item) is in Dutch.
Van 1 april tot 13 mei 2010 kunnen leraren een beurs aanvragen om Onderwijswetenschappen te gaan studeren bij de Open Universiteit Nederland. Deze masteropleiding wordt aangeboden door CELSTEC.
In February 2010 the book Word informatievaardig! (Become information skilled!) appeared at Noordhoff Publishers. Authors are Saskia Brand-Gruwel and Iwan Wopereis, both researchers at CELSTEC. The book is in Dutch.
