Case studies

You won't find solutions to issues with conflicting interests with a straightforward approach. With design thinking, the focus is on imagining the possible and how to get there. How do you teach students imagination? And what educational resources fit the bill? Mark Jacobs of the university of applied sciences Inholland created the Design thinking Open Resources Platform.

Securing e-mail traffic involves a lot. For instance, educational institutions must ensure that their users can send and receive e-mails securely. Failure to do so can cause problems. Ed van Gasteren, IT service manager at the University of Amsterdam, knows all about it. He explains how the UvA uses SURFmailfilter to bundle and secure outgoing mail flows.

What happens to a building in an earthquake? İhsan Bal, professor of earthquake resistance at Hanze University of Applied Sciences, can map this out at lightning speed thanks to research with the SURF Research Cloud.

The VU, UU and RUG jointly developed a VR teaching method to let law students argue in a very realistic setting, called PleitVRij. The teaching method is a success, but further development and scaling up does not happen by itself. What is involved and what has been achieved in the project 'Learning with Virtual Reality: The Next Level'?

ZIeZO is a tool that helps exchange digital educational resources within healthcare. In this article, you will discover how the tool was created and what is available in this repository.

In this case story, read why and how Naturalis uses SURF Research Access Management for their researchers.

Serious gaming is increasingly used in higher education. But how can you measure what students have learned during the game? To this end, the Open University developed a tool that makes it possible to integrate analytical rubrics within serious games.

Music is essential for forming coalitions, argues a group of international and interdisciplinary researchers. To analyse the data, team member Chirag Chittar used SURF Research Cloud.