Innovations of Perry den Brok
Prof. dr. P.J. (Perry) den Brok
perry.denbrok@wur.nlAdvancing university teaching and educational careers
Created: 16/09/2021
Modified: 23/09/2024
Modified: 23/09/2024
Many changes are taking place within university education, and there are specific developments in the field of engineering education. These changes require changing roles and competencies of university teachers and more opportunities for teaching specialisation.
Challenge-Based Learning in Wageningen University & Research (CBL@WUR)
Created: 18/06/2020
Modified: 05/07/2022
Modified: 05/07/2022
This project focuses on defining what challenge-based learning at WUR means.
Characteristics of Educational Innovations at Wageningen University
Created: 08/11/2019
Modified: 28/09/2020
Modified: 28/09/2020
This executive summary reports on a research study mapping the characteristics of educational innovation projects at WUR (Wageningen University and Research). It provides a general description of the research study, reports on key findings emerging from the study, and presents recommendations that can guide future innovation of WUR education. The study was funded via the Wageningen educational in…
Cultivating learning in the transdisciplinary-oriented Academic Consultancy Training
Created: 14/08/2018
Modified: 28/09/2020
Modified: 28/09/2020
This project has developed innovative learning materials and activities for fostering students’ transdisciplinary learning, in the context of the Academic Consultancy Training (ACT). Additionally, a complementary research study is performed in order to understand the effects of this innovation and to explore what helps cultivating and drives transdisciplinary learning in ACT, based on the views o…
Evaluation of Educational Technology Innovations at WUR
Created: 14/04/2021
Modified: 04/11/2022
Modified: 04/11/2022
WUR has created a new procedure for innovating education via Educational Technology (EdTech). Evaluation plays a key role in this procedure to provide an overall and detailed view of effectiveness and usefulness of the experimented IT tool.
Online Education During Covid-19 Pandemic / Towards Post-Covid-19 Education
Created: 08/04/2020
Modified: 27/03/2023
Modified: 27/03/2023
Pedagogical Development programmes in Higher Education. What works for whom and under which circumstances?
Created: 30/11/2020
Modified: 14/08/2023
Modified: 14/08/2023
This PhD research aims to gain more insight into the relationship between characteristics of Pedagogical Development Programs and university teachers learning outcomes.
Redesign Lab
Created: 13/05/2020
Modified: 20/10/2021
Modified: 20/10/2021
The Redesign Lab is a method to facilitate educational innovations that involve multiple stakeholders. This project evaluates the effectiveness of the method.
Routes to Urban Issues
Created: 15/10/2020
Modified: 20/06/2024
Modified: 20/06/2024
Universities and municipalities meet around urban challenges and work together to create rich learning environments for students, course coordinators, and municipalities. As urban issues are not directly applicable in an educational context, we aim to provide guidelines for this.
Skills learning trajectories
Created: 10/07/2020
Modified: 14/03/2022
Modified: 14/03/2022
This project evaluates the design and implementation of skills learning trajectoriesof 7 bachelor programmes at Wageningen University. Perspectives of different stakeholders are taken into account. Including recommendations for implementating skills learning trajectories
Teacher professional learning in the context of innovations in higher education
Created: 20/10/2021
Modified: 22/10/2021
Modified: 22/10/2021
In this NRO practice-oriented research we study how teachers in higher education learn in the context of educational innovations. This will be done by conducting a literature study, a broad as well as an in-depth study of existing cases, and an intervention study.
Teaching Large Groups
Created: 28/01/2020
Modified: 28/09/2020
Modified: 28/09/2020
In recent years, there has been an increasing trend in the number of students entering Dutch universities. The increasing student numbers bring about many advantages. However, more often than not, this increase in student numbers is not steadily met with an increase in resources (e.g. teachers, infrastructure etc.). As such, teachers are having to deal with an even larger group of students than b…
Teaching strategies and differentiated instruction
Created: 11/08/2016
Modified: 28/09/2020
Modified: 28/09/2020
A Wiki that contains a collection of educational tips for the higher education context. On the one hand, these tips are related to teaching that stimulates the different academic competences of students, so-called TACTICS, or Tips for Academic Competence Teaching, Inspired by the Criteria (brochure Criteria for Academic Bachelor’s and Master’s Curricula, TU/e, 2007). Added are tips to improve stu…