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.
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.
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.
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 the ranking of masterprogrammes in the field of Learning Sciences, the MSc programme of CELSTEC takes the second place after the programme of the Universiteit Twente. This concludes the Keuzegids Masters 2010, an independent publication based on student and expert judgments of the five Dutch programmes in this field.
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.
On 9 February 2010 CELSTEC offered a workshop at the Hoger Onderwijs Reeks Jubileum conference in Amersfoort. Theme of the conference was ‘Inspire to learn’ and the CELSTEC workshop aimed to make teachers more capable of dealing with information.
