2. Who I Am: Sjoerd de Vries
• Professor Social Media, University of Applied
Sciences, Leeuwarden Netherlands
• Assistant professor media and learning networks
University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands
3. NHL University of Applied Sciences
• We cover Technical and Social Sciences:
Economics and Management, Education and
Communication, Health and Social work, Media
and Technologies
• Together with our neighbour University we
educate the educators in our region
• A strong ambition to educate for the future
4. The Context
• Open region :)
• SME’s crucial
• Agriculture, tourism, and
health care dominate
• Economic, social and
educational issues
5. The research to discuss
• Knowledge21 =
• NHL21 +
• Education21 +
• EU projects like ODS and Transit
• How to develop NHL as an open successful
University of Applied Sciences?
6. Some developments
• Ten primary and secondary schools acted as
living labs in 2010-2012
• Teachers as action researchers working
together with students on local research
questions gave a boost to the development of
the schools
• 2013-2014 we expect to work with 20/40
schools and 40/80 teachers and five NHL
research groups, and our education programs
7. Knowledge21 objectives
• Further development of our network of regular
and lifelong learners, and applied researchers,
together with regional innovators and
professionals in the field of education
• Contribute to innovative design, access, use,
and validation of digital knowledge media
(education and research resources and
services)
• To realize an open and co-creative education
and research region
8. Goals for the field of Education
• Development of an open and co-
creative framework for (lifelong)
learning and research in our region
• Schools become 'living labs' with a local
research and development agenda
• NHL functions as a networked living lab
(online, open, pro-active, etcetera) as
part of this framework
9. Our research questions
• What is an applicable and successful
maturity model for a networked living
lab steered by integrated, open and co-
creative education and research?
• What factors contribute to the
successful development of our
networked lab?
11. Implementation agenda
• Program for the transformation of primary
schools into living labs for the development of
high quality education (going on)
• Program for action research programs in these
labs (going on)
• Program for the development of our education
bachelor programs into 'open networked
education' (In development)
• Program for the integration of education and
research (In development)
12. Thoughts about the Future
• Open education needs to become integrated with
R&D; it is about open development?
• We should not waste the energy and capacities of the
youth. Expect changing roles from student to teacher
from junior to senior from master to apprentice, ...
• Learning at the workplace, professionalization in
Universities?
• A university of applied sciences like NHL is just a
living lab, how to develop yourself as a networked
living lab?
