Startling results with online learning
How do children and young people learn in the digital era? How should education be designed to accommodate them? These are perfect questions for Wim Veen, professor in Education and Technology at the TPM faculty. His reply? Don't dwell on the ICT paraphernalia but invest your time in flexible learning paths, creating online communities and online support. That way you can be sure that ICT in education is really of benefit. Along with colleagues, Veen set up two educational pilot projects, with remarkable results.
Veen was responsible for initiating the URWAY project for early school leavers in secondary education. His co-developers included Marja Verstelle, pedagogical advisor at Leiden University and associated with TU Delft as guest staff member. At the same time Veen was also involved in the BlendXL project, led by his TPM colleague Arnold Muhren. Together they developed e-learning models for large groups of students in science education. John Heintz, member of the academic teaching staff in the Architecture faculty put the models into practice. Two different projects for very different target groups with one thing in common: the learning outcomes were especially good.
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