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Stimulating Boundary Crossing Learning in a Multi-Stakeholder Learning Environment for Sustainable Development
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Oonk, Carla; Gulikers, Judith; den Brok, Perry; Mulder, Martin – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2022
Purpose: Sustainable development requires multiple stakeholders to work and learn across practices, in other words, it requires boundary crossing competence. To prepare students for their future sustainability professions, higher education should facilitate the development of boundary crossing competence in its curricula. This study aims to…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Interdisciplinary Approach, Workshops, Learning
Teachers as Brokers: Adding a University-Society Perspective to Higher Education Teacher Competence Profiles
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Oonk, Carla; Gulikers, Judith T. M.; den Brok, Perry J.; Wesselink, Renate; Beers, Pieter-Jelle; Mulder, Martin – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2020
Higher education institutions are increasingly engaged with society but contemporary higher education teacher competence profiles do not include university-society oriented responsibilities of teachers. Consequently, comprehensive insights in university-society collaborative performance of higher education teachers are not available. This study…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Competencies, Profiles, Universities
Supporting Student-Stakeholder Collaboration in the Multistakeholder Regional Learning Environment and the Effects on Student Learning
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Oonk, Carla; Gulikers, Judith; Mulder, Martin – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
Boundary crossing competence is needed to tackle complex problems and should therefore be facilitated in education. The Regional Learning Environment, a typical service learning environment practiced in Dutch life sciences education, offers students ample opportunities to develop boundary crossing competence through multi-stakeholder…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Cooperation, Educational Environment, Academic Achievement
An Assessment Innovation as Flywheel for Changing Teaching and Learning
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Gulikers, Judith T. M.; Runhaar, Piety; Mulder, Martin – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2018
This contribution shows an example of how an assessment innovation can serve as a flywheel for changing teaching and learning. This article first explains the development of an authentic, competence-based performance assessment in pre-vocational secondary education (pre-VET). Using these assessments in "pre"-VET, that is preparatory to…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Innovation, Educational Change, Test Construction
The Current Status of Teaching Staff Innovation Competence in Ugandan Universities: Perceptions of Managers, Teachers, and Students
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Kasule, George Wilson; Wesselink, Renate; Noroozi, Omid; Mulder, Martin – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2015
How competent are university teaching staff to deliver effectively their present and future university duties in Uganda? This question was explored in this study by collecting data from managers (n = 90), teachers (n = 126), and students (n = 179) through a questionnaire administered at Kyambogo University. The results show that teacher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Competencies, Innovation, College Faculty
The New Competence Concept in Higher Education: Error or Enrichment?
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Mulder, Martin; Gulikers, Judith; Biemans, Harm; Wesselink, Renate – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to evaluate whether the new (comprehensive) concept of competence and the competence-based education approach are being used in, and perceived as being fruitful for, academic education. Design/methodology/approach: In this explorative and qualitative study individual interviews with representatives of study…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Academic Education, Labor Market, Foreign Countries