Incentive scheme Open and online education

Ict in education offers opportunities for innovation and quality improvement. The Minister of Education, Culture and Science made funding available for the last time in 2022 through the Open and Online Education Incentive Scheme. Read more about the projects from the incentive scheme.

Stimuleringsregeling open en online onderwijs
XR in het onderwijs

Issue XR in education

What are the possibilities, opportunities, applications, challenges and obstacles of eXtended Reality for education? Who are engaged in this? Where are we now and where are we going? Read it in the issue XR in education.

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Marleen de Moor - Sharestats

ShareStats: professional community and open environment for statistics assignments in one

In social science courses, statistics is an important but also difficult subject. Students want to practise a lot and that means that lecturers have a lot of work in making all those assignments. Four universities took the initiative to join forces and create an open environment for statistics assignments.

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Harry Bitter

VR makes preparing and practising practicals life-like

Students often find chemistry practicals exciting. A lot can go wrong, resulting in quite high costs and safety risks. WUR developed a virtual chemistry practical together with the RUG to let students first practice virtually with virtual reality glasses in preparation for physical practicals.

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Aline Bouwes

Nursing students learn clinical reasoning with videos and interaction

How do you teach nursing students clinical reasoning? How do you bring them into contact with situations at home, in the nursing home, hospital or GP? Context is important for interpreting a situation. Utrecht University of Applied Sciences and Fontys developed video-based materials thanks to the Open and Online Education Incentive Scheme.

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Marjo de Graauw

Improve lab skills? Use interactive videos

Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences students experience high pressure during practicals because they still lack the skills to perform actions properly. Leiden University therefore developed interactive videos on these skills. This leads to better learning results, lower study pressure and less workload for lecturers and supervisors of practicals.

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Use cases open and online education

Looking for practical examples for sharing and reusing OERs or for online education? Check out the page with great practice examples and use them in your teaching. We have worked out some projects from the incentive scheme into use cases.

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To the practical examples for OERs.

Knowledge development in open and online education

Thanks to the grant from the Open and Online Education Incentive Scheme, many projects have been developed and much knowledge has been gained about OERs and online education. These have been further developed into products or services. Read more about this on the pages:

Knowledge of OERs

Knowledge of online and blended education