Learning Café EDU30
Framing ICT Competencies of Teachers in Higher Education
Date Thursday, Dec 3 Time – RoomCheck
Explore 10 inspirational lessons in this interactive learning café. Recent research across 35 Dutch HE institutions culminated in a collection of good practices that can accelerate the shift from professional development by training ICT skills, towards co-creation of ICT integrated education. How can you implement bottom up actions, new roles for students and knowledge sharing across faculty borders? Join to discuss ideas and develop your strategies in support of university teaching qualifications and ICT integrated education.
Moderators
Riekje de Jong
University Utrecht, The Netherlands
Riekje de Jong is a senior educational consultant and staff trainer at the Centre for Teaching and Learning (faculty of Social Sciences) of Utrecht University since 2012. She is a member of the Educational Development and Training group. Next to her management responsibilities of the Educational Development & Training group, she has been consultant and project leader of several local and national projects in the field of staff development in higher education.
She has studied Social Psychology at VU University Amsterdam and started her career as a teacher in higher vocational education and as a consultant in the field of secondary education. In 1989 she became (senior) educational consultant at Radboud University in Nijmegen. She was active in the field op curriculum education and staff development in higher education. She is one of the initiators of the mutual agreement of the university teaching qualification (BKO) of all Dutch research universities in 2008.
As a consultant she is involved in the implementation of staff development policy in research universities. For example as programme leader of the programme of Educational leadership of the Centre of Excellence of University Teaching (Utrecht University), in providing programmes for professional development of academic teachers and portfolio tracks for a senior teaching qualification (SKO). She is also providing professional development of teachers in universities of applied sciences regarding student assessment and supervising student research.
She has broad experience in audits and assessment committees of the quality of higher education programmes in Flanders and the Netherlands (NVAO). She is participating in national and international networks in the field of educational development (EHON and ICED).
Her main fields of interests are professional development of teachers in higher education/staff development, assessment and curriculum development.
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Ineke Lam
Consultant ICT in Higher Education / Teammanager, University Utrecht, The Netherlands
Ineke Lam is connected to Utrecht University, the Netherlands since 1981. At that moment she started her study Sociology. After her study she started her career as a researcher (PhD-student) at the same faculty. This resulted in a doctoral dissertation on ‘The myth of the Empty Nest’ in 1994. After finishing her PhD, Ineke switched from the faculty of Social Sciences to IVLOS, Institute of Education at the same university. First, she was involved in various research projects in secondary and higher education. Since 1999 she is more involved in consultancy work in higher education, mainly in ICT-related projects. She got her consultancy qualification in 2001. In the same year Ineke became the coordinator of the Centre for ICT in Education, a part of IVLOS. In 2007 this Centre was merged with the team ‘Educational Development’ and Ineke became the manager of this team.
Since 1st January 2011 the training and consultancy part IVLOS operates as the Educational Development and Training group. This group is part of the Centre for Teaching and Learning (faculty of Social Sciences) of Utrecht University. Next to her management responsibilities Ineke has been project manager of various local, national and international projects. Within Utrecht University she coordinaties the 'EMP-projects'. Her main field of interests are ICT, curriculum development and professional development of teachers and trainers, and VLE.
Next to her professional activities Ineke’s main passion in life is flyfishing on salmon and sea trout in Norway. She is a member of the Dutch Women Fly Fishers (www.dwff.nl).
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http://www.uu.nl/staff/JILam/0