Author: mmulder

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.

Opportunity competence linked to high level of problem solving

Research of Yvette Baggen et al showed that the field of cognitive research contributes to the field of entrepreneurship research; it provides a deeper understanding of the initial steps of the entrepreneurial process. More specifically, it is argued that those who excel in opportunity identification, share core characteristics with high-level complex problem solvers.

The results will be published in Baggen, Y., Mainert, J., Lans, T., Biemans, H. J. A., Greiff, S., & Mulder, M. (in press). Linking complex problem solving to opportunity identification competence within the context of entrepreneurship. International Journal of Lifelong Education. Doi: 10.1080/02601370.2015.1060029. (special issue: Problem solving – facilitating the utilization of a concept towards lifelong education).

Facilitating argumentative knowledge construction

Interested in fostering argumentation competence via online group learning? See the publication of Omid Noroozi et al, entitled: ‘ Facilitating argumentative knowledge construction through a transactive discussion script in CSCL’. The results of this study showed that transactive discussion scripts facilitate argumentative knowledge construction. Furthermore, learners assigned to the scripted condition acquired significantly more domain-specific and domain-general knowledge on argumentation than learners assigned to the unscripted condition. Source: Noroozi, O., Weinberger, A., Biemans, H.J.A., Mulder, M., & Chizari, M. (2013). Facilitating argumentative knowledge construction through a transactive discussion script in CSCL. Computers and Education, 61(2), 59-76.

Jurian Meijering won prestigious Award of Graduate School WASS

Jurian Meijering won the prestigious ‘Most Promising WASS publication’ Award of Graduate School WASS this year. Congratulations! The full reference to the article is: Meijering, J.V., K. Kern and H. Tobi (2014). Identifying the methodological characteristics of European green city rankings. Ecological Indicators (43), 8, pp. 132–142. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2014.02.026

Teacher interpersonal behaviour and student motivation

The article titled “Teacher interpersonal behaviour and student motivation in competence-based vocational education: Evidence from Indonesia”, by Zainun Misbah et al, published in Teaching and Teacher Education, is now available online: DOI information: 10.1016/j.tate.2015.04.007. Check: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/teaching-and-teacher-education/recent-articles/

Symposium on MOOCs research now on Storify and Slideshare

Pierre Gorissen reported on the Symposium on MOOCs research organized by the VOR Divisions ICT and Higher Education in Wageningen on May 26. He posted:”During the day, the #VORMOOC hashtag was used for tweets and it managed to get in the trending topics list for the day.
An overview of the tweets was collected in this Storify report: https://storify.com/PeterMcAllister/vor-divsion-ict-and-he-symposium-research-on-moocs. The slides for all the presentations during the symposium are now available online: http://kortelink.com/VOR_26-5-2015″. Thanks Pierre for facilitating this.