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 Europea conference announced as ‘Sustainable Vocational Education for the Labor Market’, but which was on the spot implemented as ‘Competitive and Sustainable Vocational Education and Training: Achievements and New Goals’, which is actually a different topic, took place in Riga, Latvia, on May 11 and 12. The conference took place within the framework of the Latvian EU Presidency, and featured speakers such as the Minister for Education and Science of Latvia, the Secretary of State for Agriculture of Latvia, the EUROPEA International president, the Director General of the Employers’ Confederation of Latvia, the Chairman of the Free Trade Union Confederation of Latvia and the Chairman of the Vocational Education Association of Latvia. The theme of the conference elaborated was about generic VET issues such as attractiveness of VET. Strategic Policy Recommendations for VET were tabled and will be signed by the stakeholders involved. These recommendations are all about good quality VET in the EU in general, and not specific for agricultural or life sciences VET. A surprise was that the Minister of Education appeared to be a former student of mine. Congratulations with a brilliant career.
On May 26 2015, 9:30 – 18:30hrs, the VOR Divisions ICT and Higher Education jointly organize a symposium on research on MOOCs. The symposium will take place in Wageningen University, the Netherlands.
During a number of presentations you will get an overview of current research into MOOCs and during the afternoon you will have the opportunity to listen to short case presentations by participants regarding research into MOOCs. But you can also provide your own cases to present at the symposium. There is an option on the registration form to indicate your interest in presenting a case. Continue reading Symposium Research on MOOCs, May 26, Wageningen University
George Wilson Kasule of Kyambogo University Kampala in Uganda successfully defended his dissertation in Wageningen University today. The topic of his thesis is Innovation Competence of University Teachers in Uganda. Co-Promotor was Dr. Renate Wesselink. Opponents (from left to right): Prof. emeritus Albert Pilot (University of Utrecht); Prof. Tiny van Boekel (Wageningen University); Prof. Michael Gessler (ITB Bremen). Continue reading George Wilson Kasule successfully defended dissertation
Next in my conference Calender is the international conference on ‘Competence and Excellence in Extension and Education’, taking place in Wageningen, the Netherlands, on April 28-May 1. We are looking forward to welcoming over 350 participants, members of the AIAEE and ESEE, from all continents of the world. Continue reading Upcoming conference ‘Competence and Excellence in Extension and Education’
2015’s AERA in Chicago is almost over for me, but it was very rewarding. See the prentations page for downloadable papers and PPTs. On Saturday April 18 I had the pleasure to chair a high-level coherent and empirical research session on Competence Development in Workplace Learning. Continue reading 2015’s AERA
Dear website visitor. I have updated the list with downloadable papers. Check it if you want and download the papers which you need for your work. Accurate referencing will be highly appreciated. Enjoy.
The call for WU sandwich PhD’s applications has opened. The deadline for proposals is set on Friday, May 15th 2015. Candidates must meet all of the eligibility requirements. See Website: http://www.wageningenur.nl/en/Education-Programmes/PhD-Programme/Categories-of-PhD-Candidates/Sandwich-PhD-Candidates.htm For a submission via the chair of Education and Competence Studies proposals must be built upon completed or running research of PhD candidates at ECS. Send project ideas to martin.mulder@wur.nl
The registration for the ESEE 2015 conference is closing soon, and around 150 colleagues for around 100 presentations have registered. It is expected that a group will follow during the coming days. Interesting news is that plenary speaker Prof. dr. Martin Kropff announced yesterday that he has accepted a new position in Mexico and that he will step down as Rector Magnificus as of June 1. We hope that he will still speak at the conference.
The manuscript ‘Towards a Set of Design Principles for Developing Oral Presentation Competence: A Synthesis of Research in Higher Education Educational Research Review’, by Stan van Ginkel et al, has been accepted for publication in the Educational Research Review (Impact Factor: 3.107). The paper will appear online soon. Check http://www.journals.elsevier.com/educational-research-review/
