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20-12-2024
The education & IT event of the year is coming up: the SURF Education Days on 12 and 13 November. Npuls will also be there again. We would love to talk to you at the networking square and during our sessions. Will you come too? Below is a collection of all Npuls activities.
Immersive Labs in education: practical insights and inspiring examples
12 November
11:45 – 12:30 AM
Plenary hall
English spoken
Get inspired and informed about the limitless possibilities of immersive labs in education. An immersive lab is a space where the physical and digital worlds come together to create a life-like, interactive experience. Our panel will lead a discussion on the development and implementation of immersive labs in education. We will take participants on a journey through various case studies and share best practices that highlight the effectiveness of immersive technologies in education. What are the opportunities and challenges? Come to this session and expand your knowledge.
By Ian Biscoe, Vanessa Abel en Diane Smits
Achieving student mobility with OOAPI
12 November
11:45 – 12:30 AM
Tango 2
From the Flexible Learning Pathways Transformation hub, we are working on more choices for students in mbo, hbo and wo. To achieve internal and external student mobility there, we need sector-wide standards, agreements and links. In this session, we will work together to come up with the desired and necessary solutions to realise student mobility in mbo, hbo and wo and to connect using the Open Educational API (OOAPI, an open standard for sharing educational data).
By Ashwin Brouwer and Hans Swart
Meet startups in educational technology: a tour
12 November
12:45 – 1:15 PM
Startuptuin
In the Startuptuin, startups will tell you about their product and you can try them out! Join the tour to get to know all the startups. Starting at the Npuls stand, we will lead you past all startups in 30 minutes and you will hear all about the latest innovations.
By Dimitri van Dillen
Connecting to Technology Infrastructure? The Npuls support team is coming to you!
12 November
14:25 – 14:50 PM
Plenary hall
Do you work at an mbo, hbo or wo institution and are you curious how your institution can benefit from digital innovations such as microcredentials, digital educational resources, an Eduwallet, or improving student mobility? In this session, you will discover how you can easily connect to these facilities so that your students and staff can take full advantage.
By Rose van Iperenburg and Femke Morsch
What can eduwallet mean for education?
13 November
11:45 – 12:30 AM
Tango 1
In lifelong learning, the learner is central. Giving learners control over their own education requires digital organisation around the learner. A personal eduwallet with its own digital identity (eduID) and its own digital study results (educredentials/edubadges) can be an important digital tool for lifelong development. We explain what this is and how it can further help learners. Within Npuls, this is being researched and tested through an Eduproeftuin together with educational institutions and learners, in this session we will also share the results of this.
By Juul de Louw and Peter Eikelboom
Experimenting with new tools, how does your institution go about it?
13 November
11:45 – 12:30 AM
Tango 2
EdTech is technology that supports learning and teaching. We want educational institutions to enable teachers to experiment with (new) EdTech applications quickly, in a structured and effective way, without losing sight of privacy, security, procurement and teaching quality. Earlier this year, the pilot hub EdTech organised four online meetings on experimenting with educational technology, in which mbo, hbo and wo institutions shared their knowledge and experience. In this session, we present and test the results of these sessions.
By Pieternel de Bie
Connecting knowledge(s) – together we compose a knowledge infrastructure for further education
13 November
1:30 – 2:15 PM
Swing
Gaining, sharing and utilising knowledge is essential for education. Sharing knowledge from research and practice gives us valuable insights to shape the desired (digital) transformation. A shared knowledge infrastructure helps. With the theme of the SURF Education Days being ‘Set the tone’, this can be seen as a chord diagram, from which a beautiful piece of music can be composed. In this session, we explore what a knowledge infrastructure for further education can sound like. Join the conversation and share your insights!
By Marian Kat-de Jong and Alba van Vliet
Three times Extended Reality (XR) in the spotlight. Each country’s tone!
13 November
1:30 – 2:15
Tango 1
The Netherlands, Flanders and the UK have all developed their own approaches to support educational institutions in scaling up the use of XR in education. Learn more about these approaches and join us and colleagues from other institutions to discuss what is needed for successful implementation.
By Esther van der Linde, Naomie Wauterickx and Jan Colsoul
Microcredentials, a revolution within educational institutions?
13 November
1:30 – 2:15
Tango 2
How are almost 70 mbo, hbo and wo institutions together with Npuls and SURF building the future of microcredentials within the Netherlands? Are microcredentials causing a revolution? Or is it a development that has been going on for some time? In this interactive session, we will update you and you will learn more about the best practices within mbo, hbo and wo.
By Bart Lamboo, Thessa Vos, Goof Claessen, Talitha van Son and Marc van Oosterhout
We are an open book!
13 November
2:25 – 2:50
Swing
Want to know more about open textbooks? In this session, Sylvia Moes and Monique Schoutsen talk about the creation of open interactive textbooks. They show the open textbooks platform on edusources, on which over 150 open textbooks have been made findable. They also tell how the Flexible Learning Pathways Transformation hub stimulates and supports open textbook developments at higher educational institutions in the Netherlands.
By Sylvia Moes and Monique Schoutsen
Become part of edusources
13 November
2:25 – 2:50
Jazz 2
At edusources, the reuse of educational resources is central. But what happens when we make reusable not only the educational resources, but also the services that process educational resources? In this session, we use stories from member institutions to show how reusable services from themselves, SURF, Npuls and partners add extra value for them.
By Martine Teirlink and Michiel de Jong
