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Wim Bouwman
Whether or not IDEE will be a success, for me, depends on the question of whether or not I will have become a better teacher.
Background
Wim Bouwman is an associate professor in neutron and positron methods in materials at the faculty of Applied Sciences, with a passion for education. Wim teaches in both the BSc and the MSc of Applied Physics, but his love of education is not limited to tertiary education. Quite on the contrary, Wim enjoys operating on a broad educational spectrum. Whether it is teaching a course on a primary school, high school, at a pre-university level, or teaching the (PhD) students of TU Delft, Wim likes to engage in a variety of educational activities, each with its own audience.
As part of IDEE
Parallel to IDEE, Wim has worked on several different projects – SUTQ, curriculum renewal, NWO research proposal for didactic research – that each in their own way address the question of how to enable and improve the retention and transfer of knowledge and skills of students. Which is why it wasn’t a difficult decision for Wim to make when presented with the choice of the three different IDEE themes. More generally speaking, Wim would like to learn more about didactics and sees his participation in IDEE as an opportunity, not only to deepen his didactic knowledge, but also as an opportunity to experiment with IDEE innovations in his own education and, ultimately, to share this knowledge on a TUD wide scale.
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- A great source of inspiration in education, for Wim, is the Twents Onderwijsmodel (TOM)
Design of a module in the module-based curriculum of the BSc Applied Physics
The goal of this project is to design a module-based curriculum of the BSc Applied Physics to improve the retention of knowledge and skills, the motivation of the students and teachers and coherence of theory and application. At present we are working on a redesign of the curriculum to reduce the delay and drop out of Applied Physics students.
I would love to design the principles for a more coherent curriculum in which the students will be more motivated to study without delays and will have an improved retention and transfer of knowledge.
My personal learning goal is to get more didactical knowledge to design a module that activates students with a good long-term retention and transfer.