Hoe kies jij je minor? Een onderzoek naar beïnvloedingsfactoren van minorkeuzes door voltijd HBO-bachelorstudenten van Fontys Hogescholen

Since 2002 Dutch higher education has adopted the Bachelor/Master degree structure. Many universities of applied sciences have since then designed their undergraduate professional bachelor programmes education in terms of majors and minors. Minors offer students the possibility to differentiate their education in such a way that it reflects...

School concentration and school travel

The purpose of the research as described in this Doctor’s thesis is twofold. Firstly it is to define in how far Dutch facilities for primary and secondary education were subjected to spatial concentration during recent decades. Secondly it is intended to assess what this concentration implied for the development of the minimum necessary travel...

Designing Learning Objects for Adaptive Learning Environments

Transitional countries face the challenge of balancing rapid and sustainable development. IT-industry is very important for sustainable development due to its penetration into many other industries. It is necessary that the IT knowledge force produced by the universities in those countries meet the demands of the IT-industry in terms of...

The Facilitating University: Positioning Next Generation Educational Technology

Higher education is directly and indirectly subjected to pressures of diminishing subsidies, increasing student populations, heterogeneity, shorter knowledge and product lifecycles, labour demands, proliferation of technology, and new educational approaches and practices. Higher education must change to cope with these pressures. This study is...

Study of Delft aerospace alumni

This thesis reports on an alumni study of the Faculty Aerospace Engineering at Delft University of Technology to discover what the impact is of the degree in aerospace engineering on an alumnus' professional success and comment on what are important qualities for aerospace engineers to have in order to differentiate themselves from those with an...

Modeling management of research and education networks

Computer networks and their services have become an essential part of research and education. Nowadays every modern R&E institution must have a computer network and provide network services to its students and staff. In addition to its internal computer network, every R&E institution must have a connection with the computer networks of other...

Knowledge Management in Courseware Development

Educational multimedia software development is a special case of software development, partly because of the large variety of disciplines involved, partly because the use of the multiple media sets its own demands to the design and realization of educational software (courseware). In this thesis we investigate the improvement of the maturity of...

Een Onbekookte Niewigheid? - Invoering, omvang, inhoud en betekenis van het wiskundeonderwijs op de Franse en Latijnse scholen 1815-1863

English as the medium of instruction in Dutch engineering education, Engels als instructietaal in Nederlandse ingenieursopleidingen