In order to be successful in their academic studies and future careers, students need to learn how to deal with (scientific) information and how to use it ethically. Annemie Kersten is instructor in information literacy at WUR Library. I interviewed her to talk about the skill of information literacy and how you…
WUR Library staff works together with researchers of Wageningen University & Research and teachers in professional agricultural education to spread research results into the classroom. Through the Groen Kennisnet program (‘Green knowledge network’), new digital books and dossiers are made openly available. How does it work? In different projects, groups…
By Marijn Post & Marian van Harmelen. In April 2018, me and my colleague Marian van Harmelen visited the OE Global 2018 conference in Delft. The conference was dedicated to exploring and discussing the benefits that Open Education could have for educational practice. A large part of the talks during…
Nowadays, teachers at the WUR use all sorts of digital material in their (Blackboard) courses. Most of the time, they make these materials themselves, however it gets more and more accepted to reuse the materials of others. While popular sites such as YouTube and Google jumpstarted the reuse and sharing…
At Wageningen University, teachers want to use peer reviewed papers in a MOOC in a legal way. Since a MOOC is freely available on internet and can be followed anywhere and by anyone, I advise to use free access or open access articles only. In this blog post, I will…
Wageningen University & Research (WUR) produces an increasing amount of digital education resources. The production got a boost with the introduction of MOOCs and online masters. Over the past two years hundreds of knowledge clips were recorded. The mindset in producing these course materials is to make it suitable for multiple…