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SURF magazine: the favour of the online student and developing apps with shared educational data
03-12-2012
The recently published December issue of SURF magazine contains several articles with news and background information about ICT in higher education and research. SURF04 contains the following:
- Pathology professor Wolter Mooi at VUmc makes extensive use of online aids in his teaching. He stays in touch with students through social media and a lot of his lectures can be found on YouTube and iTunes U. His conviction: if a maximum number of students can have access to the best lectures available, educational institutions have to compete for the favour of the online student.
- By making internal educational information available via open interfaces, it can be shared and accessed in a variety of ways, for example via mobile apps. Tilburg University and HZ University of Applied Sciences tell how they work with open educational data.
- The new oil for the knowledge-driven economy, that’s another way of addressing accessible research data. In the Netherlands we work together on a national level to accessing scientific data, says Ana Meegen, chair of the Special Interest Group Research Data.
Final issue
This December issue of 2012 is the final issue of the English edition of SURF magazine. The Dutch issue will continue to be published at www.surf.nl/magazine. We thank our subscribers for their interest and we would like to refer them to our English news feed at www.surf.nl/en.