Martin Mulder is Emeritus Professor of Education and Director-Owner of MM Consultancy for Education and Training. He published widely with his colleagues and students about issue related to competence development, vocational and professional education, higher education, teacher education, and learning technology.
Martin Mulder is Emeritus Professor of Education and Director-Owner of MM Consultancy for Education and Training. He published widely with his colleagues and students about issue related to competence development, vocational and professional education, higher education, teacher education, and learning technology.
The conferences of the Association of International Agricultural and Extension Education in Portland, Oregon, and the American Educational Research Association (which celebrated its Centennial), combined with the World Education Research Assocation (WERA) in Washington, DC, were good. The AERA/WERA conference counted around 15,000 participants. The WERA has networks, one of which is the International Research Network Vocational Education and Training (IRN-VET). I gave my presentation in that Network to further establish the relationship between VETNET of the European Educational Research Association and IRN-VET, as I believe that Vocational Education and Training Research needs more attention.
The latest Editorial of the Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension is published, which is about extension education theory and research in India. See: The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 22:2, 105-109, DOI:10.1080/1389224X.2016.1155890
Thanks for the 200+ submissions for the conference ‘Competence Theory, Research and Practice’, which will take place in Wageningen, the Netherlands, on October 19-21, 2016. If you have missed the deadline, please contact me at martin.mulder@wur.nl. For now; we’ll start the review process. See for further information: www.competence2016.nl
Professor Jack van der Vorst, new General Director of the Social Sciences Group of Wageningen University visited the chair group of Education and Competence Studies on February 18. The group presented its policy, strategy and activities and discussed various issues. Only a relatively small delegation of ECS could be present because of many other commitments.
There are 19 days left until the deadline for the Call for submissions for the international conference ‘Competence Theory, Research and Practice’ expires, which is on March 21, 2016. All conference submission information can be found on www.competence.nl
Hogeschool Utrecht and Windesheim made a video recording on my views on competence theory, research and practice, especially in vocational and professional education. Check https://youtu.be/AnE9-M5uEpI (in Dutch only). Thanks Ilya Zitter for initiating this.