Education & Sciences

In 2018 the initiative was taken by 4TU Centre for Engineering Education to explore the impact of new emerging technologies in a book or special issue. We are happy to share that we currently have five published articles in the special issue: "Values and Risks of Emerging Technologies in Higher Education. The issues address new ways of teaching and learning through digitisation in Education and /or Engineering and the risks and values involved in using those new technologies. HEI is expected to effectively judge the educational technology industries involved in developing support, curriculum and content. Moreover, incorporating these emerging technologies is built on digitisation and datafication processes that pose pressing challenges to the current educational infrastructure, educational approaches, ethical responsibilities, responsible "big data" use and socio-cultural aspects of education.

Two articles are on the "acceleration programme educational innovation with IT" of the Government guided by SURF, which deals with professionalisation "How to prepare the current staff and organisation for a wider use of learning technologies, such as learning analytics".

"Don't Wait, Innovate! Preparing students and Lecturers in Higher Education for the future labour Market" by Marlies ter Beek, Iwan Wopereis and Kim Schildkamp (2022)

"Validation and Evaluation of a Tool for Developing an Integrated View of ICT-Based Educational Innovation" by Dorien Hopster – den Otter and Iwan Wopereis (2023)

One addresses the ethics of using technologies and how we can deal with those ethical risks.

"The Ethical Dimension of Emerging Technologies in Engineering Education" by Pieter de Vries (2022)

One is an example of using social network analysis and boundary crossing to assess the effectiveness of building knowledge information platforms for learning in the energy management systems industry.

Learning Networks and Professional Development in Building Energy Management Systems Industry, Ali Soleymani, Paula van den Brom, Samir Ahmed, Maaike Konings, Ellen Sjoer, Laura Itard, Wim Zeiler, Maarten de Laat en Marcus Specht (2023)

The final one addresses energy network simulations and the possibilities this might open up for doing engineering education differently. The latter also involves the technical explanation of connecting multiple energy labs/network power systems to realise educational simulations, which became available in the past five years.

Innovative Higher Education Approaches for Power System Courses, by Ettore Bompard, Abouzar Estebsari, Andrea Mazza, Enrico Pons and Lorenzo Solida (2023)

If you are also interested in submitting a contribution, you may still contact us; we are looking for four more to make it a book. If you want to know more, please contact one of the Editors. Renate Klaassen & Pieter de Vries