Exploring Value and Ethical Dimensions of Disruptive Technologies for Learning and Teaching

Disruptive technology has become an integral part of our lives, and it has brought about a significant transformation in the way we interact, communicate, and share information, also in the field of education. Innovation in technology needs to be based on ethics and values of the intended result. As the use of disruptive technology continues...

A typology for the university campus as a living lab for Facility Management education and research

Background and aim - The university campus is a built environment facilitating activities centred around learning and knowledge development. This confluence of activities makes the university campus uniquely suited to bring together stakeholders and to generate meaningful experiences to not only learn about but also further develop the...

A Review of Reviews on Computational Thinking Assessment in Higher Education

There is an urgent need for educating the next generation of learners with digital tools and making use of digital practices and skills. Education on computational thinking (CT) is widespread around the world with a dominant focus on K- 12. Recently also higher education has come more to the focus of CTE. However, most of the work on CT in...

Higher Education and Wicked Problems: Students Engaging with Complexity and Uncertainty in Sustainability Transitions

The challenges we collectively face, such as climate change, are characterized by more complexity, interdependence, and dynamism than is common for educational practice. This presents a challenge for (university) education. These sustainability transition challenges are often described as wicked or VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and...

“Kallipos”, the first open academic textbooks initiative during the years of crisis in Greece and its sustainable continuation

In this paper, we explore the challenges towards the adoption/use of Open Educational Resources (OER) within the Greek Higher Education (HE). To achieve this objective, first we present “Kallipos”, a large-scale open access textbook publishing initiative that was launched in 2013 by the Hellenic Academic Libraries Link (HEAL-Link) consortium....

A design-based vision on future roles in engineering

In this paper, we present a vision on how engineers can play different roles in future society 2030. First we predicted how society in the Netherlands (in relation to Europe and the rest of the world) is going to develop and how future engineers will behave, act and take their position in this future world. We used the ‘Vision in Design’...