This week there are MSc Diploma ceremonies in Wageningen University. These ceremonies can be followed live on wurtv. They are also stored, like all academic meetings in the Auditorium.

Continue reading New Masters from Wageningen University

On November 16 I visited Dave Bartram, former head of the R&D Department of SHL, known for his excellent work on the great eight competency framework. SHL is taken over by CEB and does not exist anymore as separate brand. Bartram will visit Wageningen for a workshop early 2016. Continue reading Visit to CEB Thames Ditton

Banras Hindu University, Varanasi, India (the global center of Hinduism) is hosting an International Extension Education conference to share expertise, and experiences, and to analyze the current innovations in extension teaching practices, research and extension services, and to share views on future developments. To get more information: www.ieecbhu.in

 

Having been addressing the future of education lately, and studying the advances in technology, pointing at the experiments in Germany about 6-people working being in remote places but working together live in 3D enabled by virtual reality, the first commercial application of a simpler version is live already. Continue reading live 3D hologram projections of people – a reality

On Friday, November 13th, Frank de Jong, lector at Stoas Vilentum in Wageningen, gave his second public lecture on ‘Understanding the difference. Responsive education: A search for ‘a difference which makes a difference’ for transition, learning and education’. Continue reading Frank de Jong – public lecture at Stoas Vilentum, Wageningen

‘The quality of research at this university is getting better and better, if the evaluation of the Peer Review committees is anything to go by. They declared a full 20 chair groups ‘excellent’. Cause for celebration. Source: http://resource.wageningenur.nl/en/science/show/Great-scores-for-Wageningen-research.htm

 

During recent presentations I have listed various learning (and education) theories (without having the time to elaborate on these, except for competence theory). The list is requested by various colleagues, and is as follows: Continue reading Learning theories listed

The Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communication, from the flagship landgrant university of Texas, Texas A&M University at College Station, as well as the Association of Professional Futurists in the USA, invited me to share my thoughts about the future of education. Inclined to see this question in the perspective of competence domains which will be important during the next decade or two, I have brought together a number of these domains which we have been and still are studying at the Education and Competence Studies group of Wageningen University. Continue reading Future-oriented competence domains listed

These are a couple of photo impressions of my tour from Houston to Atlanta during the last three weeks. I had the privilege to meet with various colleagues and present in the field of Agricultural Education and Extension and Educational Sciences at Texas A&M in College Station, Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, and Georgia State University in Atlanta. Continue reading Photo impressions of tour to USA October 2015

‘By securing the 47th place on the renowned Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings, Wageningen University can now officially call itself one of the fifty best universities in the world. Excellent results in the area of research, teaching and citations compared with other universities were largely responsible for Wageningen’s high score. Furthermore, Wageningen finished way ahead of all other Dutch universities on this list’. Source:

http://www.wageningenur.nl/en/newsarticle/Times-Higher-Education-Rankings-Wageningen-University-among-the-50-best-universities-in-the-world.htm