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The role of feedback in Dutch oral language educationPhD defence 31 October 2025Anneke Wurth, PhD candidate at ICLON, wanted to gain insight into what works well in oral language education in the school subject of Dutch in the upp...
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‘Teach young people to take control of technology’Inaugural lecture 30 October 2025Technology is spreading its tendrils into the classroom. But who is in control? In her inaugural lecture, Professor Nadira Saab calls for ‘digital age...
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Identifying educational goalsPhD defence 29 September 2025How do teachers work on their pupils' development? Kevin Zweeris, PhD candidate at ICLON, designed tools to identify teachers' objectives.
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Navigating challenges in university teachingDissertation Max Kusters 19 June 2025New research sheds light on how university lecturers make critical deliberate decisions about their teaching in an era of rapid change, revealing the ...
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Student engagement in blended learningDissertation Linyuan Wang 06 June 2025How can universities engage students in blended learning environments? Linyuan Wang’s (PhD at ICLON) dissertation offers vital insights. Blended learn...
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Nivja de Jong listed among 2% most influential scientists14 November 2024Professor Nivja de Jong has been included in the list of most influential scientists by Elsevier Data Repository. This list of scientists with the hig...
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‘Our future depends on funding for education research’09 September 2024Higher education research improves the quality of education. And these investments more than pay for themselves in terms of well-being and prosperity....
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How research and teaching can reinforce each other15 July 2024Every year, the dissertation prize is awarded to the best dissertation of the past year by the Association for Educational Research (VOR). Marjon Baas...
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Using mobile technology for self-directed language learning01 July 2024Self-directed learning is more suitable for intermediate and advanced language learners than for beginners.
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How do you evaluate quality of teaching?14 May 2024What do we really know about educational quality and its measurement? This was the subject of the first Higher Education Knowledge Café.
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Education through a cultural lens06 May 2024Teachers viewed multicultural classes with VR glasses and discussed that for the study 'Culturally responsive teaching in multicultural classes'.
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‘Language is part of your identity; we need to teach children this from an early age’04 March 2024Language is omnipresent: when you talk, app or meet in Teams. Understanding how we communicate with one another and what communication does to us is e...
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Helping students with micro-macro thinking in chemistry21 November 2023How do classroom demonstration experiments help students learn chemical reasoning? Marie-Jetta den Otter, PhD student at ICLON, researched this. She d...
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Why is higher education not making more use of Open Educational Resources?15 September 2023In higher education, Open Educational Resources (OER) are available for anyone to use, but they are not widely used. Marjon Baas, PhD student at ICLON...
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Increasing student participation in schools01 September 2023Young people have the right to be involved in decision-making on matters that affect them, including their education. Ben Smit, researcher at ICLON, s...