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Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences' dream is to introduce as many students as possible to case-based education. The university wants more vocational, higher professional and university institutions (both nationally and internationally) to be able to use this method. There were already videos explaining the method, but teachers were unable to put it into practice straight away. With the boost, the video collection is easier to find and more usable thanks to a manual and webinar.
In addition to releasing the videos themselves, the biggest benefit is the development of a comprehensive teacher's manual and a manual for setting up a case competition. This supporting material offers teachers a complete lesson plan, weekly learning objectives and practical formats to integrate the method directly into their teaching, based on years of experience and testing.
The complete collection, consisting of 10 videos, the teacher's manual and the competition manual, has been published as a whole on edusources. The materials have been made available in such a way that teachers can find a ready-made package to effectively use the case method. Responsibility for sustainable management lies with the team involved at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, which can continue to add to the collection.
View the collection: A Case Solving Guide with Videos
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Avans University of Applied Sciences participated in order to boost their collection of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) teaching materials, in which they share 50 SDG teaching materials with others via edusources. They also wanted to be able to better guarantee the quality of the learning materials by regularly evaluating them for quality and relevance. And to seek collaboration to work towards a sustainable world and integrate sustainability into education.
The Avans collection is now fully open and has grown to include more than 50 learning materials. Quality models and templates have been developed. National collaboration remained difficult, but there is a successful collaboration with Radboud University. The professional community has been renamed “Transitie naar een duurzame samenleven” to better cover the broader scope.
The collection is accessible via the professional community and provided with consistent metadata. The focus is now on internal promotion and exploring national cooperation with the SDG HBO Coalition.
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Ten universities of applied sciences offering programmes in applied natural sciences have created the online DAS Platform Open Learning Materials with the help of SURF, on which they now share 31 learning materials. This project aimed to boost the national DAS collection by adding 50 new materials, setting up a dynamic collection, developing a subject vocabulary and encouraging its use among 800 DAS teachers.
Fifty-four materials were submitted. The static collection has been converted to a better, dynamic layout. The publication process was slower than planned and the number of active community members remains low. However, the community is secured in a working group.
The materials will be published in phases in the dynamic DAS collection. A larger promotional campaign will follow at the end of 2025 when all materials are live.
View the collection: Domein Applied Science (DAS)
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Since 2014, Erasmus MC and Radboudumc have been working with virtual patients to teach clinical reasoning. The successful collection of 70 virtual patients has recently been given a makeover, making them future-proof. This is an ideal moment to share the collection with other university medical centres and teaching hospitals via edusources.
Approximately 80% of the cases have been successfully transferred and updated in terms of content. Standardised content and e-learning templates have been developed, as well as instructional videos for teachers and developers. A crucial step was the establishment of a formal professional community with a defined governance model for quality assurance and collection management. Promotion took place via a specially made video and presentations at conferences.
The collection is accessible via a dedicated professional community on edusources. Here you will find the cases, complete with improved metadata. A demo case with didactic elaboration is openly accessible, while the complete cases are available to authorised users within the community. The community serves as a sustainable hub for further growth and collaboration between healthcare training programmes.
View the collection: Search - edusources enter keyword: ‘virtuele patienten’
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In 2020, the University of Amsterdam, VU University Amsterdam, Utrecht University and Erasmus University Rotterdam jointly developed Sharestats.nl, where they share 5,000 exam questions openly. The aim is to reduce the workload for lecturers and give students the opportunity to practise. The four universities wanted to expand the collection by having 3,600 exam questions translated from Dutch into English. They also wanted to add instructional material and make the website available for Ans (a test application) and Wooclap (an interaction tool).
The collection has now doubled in size and is accessible through bulk translations. Two new export functions (exams2ans and exams2wooclap) have been added to the R/exams package, allowing the questions to be used in more learning environments. In addition, seven detailed instruction pages with videos have been created to guide teachers in searching for, downloading and importing questions into their own systems (such as Canvas, TestVision and Moodle).
The complete ShareStats item bank will be linked to edusources, where all questions and associated metadata will be made permanently accessible. This link, which is nearing completion, will provide a central, searchable location for the collection. In combination with the improved ShareStats website itself, this offers teachers a powerful and user-friendly hub for finding open statistics material and using it directly in their teaching.
View the collection: ShareStats
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The principles of epidemiology have not changed, but their application in education has. The E-modules on nutrition and health in this collection are teaching materials for 13 accredited courses in the Netherlands and Belgium, but can also be used in medical courses and for training professionals in business and healthcare, for example.
This project migrated outdated epidemiology modules from Lectora to the user-friendly, open source platform Xerte. The objectives were to renew the content and visuals, test Xerte as a tool, and make the modules openly accessible.
A large number of modules have been successfully migrated and improved, ready for use in education. Xerte proved to be very suitable for teachers, but has technical limitations. Colleagues are enthusiastic about working with Xerte as well. The project served as a pilot for a possible university-wide implementation. All modules have been made available via SURFsharekit in edusources, provided with good metadata.
View the collection: Search - edusources
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The Special Collections of VU University Amsterdam contain rare clay tablets and clay pegs that are around 5,000 years old. These are interesting for history lessons and Object Based Teaching & Learning (OBTL), for example, but are too fragile to be used. With 3D print models, however, this is possible. The VU wanted to expand and refine its collection of clay peg print models in order to boost their educational content and quality.
Sixteen high-quality 3D models of clay tablets have been produced and made publicly available. In addition, educational materials have been developed, such as a teaching package on Mesopotamian writing for secondary education and a general guide to OBTL. A practical roadmap for 3D scanning has also been shared. Physical resin prints of the models are already being used in education.
The 3D models and accompanying teaching materials are accessible via two related collections on edusources: one for the digital replicas of the clay tablets and one for the broader educational resources for Object-Based Teaching and Learning. The models are provided with extensive metadata on two levels (the original object and the digital reproduction), which facilitates reuse in both higher and secondary education.
View the collection: Digital replicas of clay tablets from the VU special collections
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The collection on vital soils is relatively young and widely distributed. The Soil Steering Lecturers Platform wants to offer the existing collection open access via edusources to teachers and students for (post)graduate education and further training. This will give the soil sector easy and reliable access to up-to-date soil knowledge.
This project, involving five universities of applied sciences, focused on setting up a professional community for soil education and converting research results into open learning materials. The starting point was to raise awareness of Open Access and licences, make existing material accessible via edusources and develop a working method for future materials.
A draft professional community has been set up and a complete e-learning programme has been developed on area development for contaminated sites. Surveys and sessions have been used to raise awareness among teacher-researchers. A fact sheet and working method for Open Access have been drawn up. The biggest challenge was the practical cooperation between support services and lecturers, and the lack of trust on the part of licensing authorities.
The “Soil and Subsurface” professional community has been established and serves as a basis for further networking. The e-learning programme is available here, together with the fact sheet and working method that have been developed.
View the collection: Search - edusources
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This collection now contains over 500 materials. The professional community wanted to use the boost to curate the current materials in terms of correct metadata and topicality, among other things.
Inholland developed a new quality model IV 4.0 and an improved publication workflow for the entire community. WUR delivered a complete set of 11 up-to-date, digitally accessible (WCAG 2.1 AA) and English-language modules. Together, this resulted in a blueprint for the management and quality assurance of the collection, with the procedures being tested in the WUR use case.
The improved WUR modules have been shared via the existing “Information Literacy” professional community on edusources. The quality standards and workflow developed by Inholland form the new basis for the management of this community. This ensures that the collection becomes more consistent, more searchable and more sustainable, which greatly promotes reuse by institutions throughout higher education.
View the collection: https://edu.nl/cyk6m
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The Avans Student Guidance learning community already had a large collection of student guidance learning materials covering ten themes. The plan was to make this collection easier to find and use for lecturers both within and outside Avans by also placing the collection on edusources. They also wanted to make the collection better known among students and lecturers. Finally, they wanted to set up a student guidance professional community, as this does not yet exist in edusources.
This project transformed an idea (‘Febo wall’) into a concrete ‘Learning Materials Wall’ with learning materials for student guidance. A learning community of teachers worked on the content, quality and accessibility via the Avans intranet. The wall was successfully launched and immediately attracted 221 unique visitors. A practical “chores” system ensures continuity. The intended link to Edusources has yet to be realised. A lack of communication budget limited visibility.
The link to Edusources is planned for the future. The collection is currently semi-open and available via the Avans intranet.