Education
The ICO educational programme provides a conceptual basis and organizing framework with the aim of supporting PhD candidates to develop themselves to the highest possible level of professional researcher in the field of education and training. To this end, ICO establishes formal educational structures…
Theme Groups
The different elements in the ICO mission lead to the organization of the research programme into ‘thematic groups’. These thematic groups can be regarded as Special Interest Groups. The thematic groups are responsible for the organization of ICO’s thematic courses and also contribute to…
ICO Membership
Institutes of fourteen Dutch and Belgian universities participate in ICO. These universities constitute the inter-university graduate school ICO. To become a member of ICO, you have be appointed at one of the ICO universities, and should be employed in a faculty or institute participating…
PhD defence Julia Kasch
On Friday, 9 October 2020 at 16:00 hours exactly, Julia Kasch (Open University of the Netherlands) will defend her thesis Scaling the unscalable? Interaction and support in open online education. More information (in Dutch) can be found at https://www.ou.nl/en/-/promotie-feedback-en-interactie-bij-online-onderwijs?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=onderwijswetenschappen. Due to Covid-19 regulations, only a…
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On Friday, October 30, 2020, at 11:00 hours exactly, Mara Otten (Utrecht University) will defend her thesis “Algebraic reasoning in primary school: A balancing act”. An abstract of the thesis can be found at https://elbd.sites.uu.nl/2020/10/01/proefschrift-otten/ Due to Covid-19 regulations, only a limited number of people…
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On Friday, 9 October 2020, at 10:30 hours exactly, Ellen van den Broek (Radboud University Nijmegen) will defend her thesis Language awareness in foreign language education. Exploring teachers’ beliefs, practices and change processes. Due to Covid-19 regulations, only a limited number of people can physically attend the public…
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On Friday, 25 September 2020, 15:00hours, L.M. (Lara) van Peppen (Erasmus University Rotterdam) will defend her dissertation entitled: ‘Fostering Critical Thinking. Generative processing strategies to learn to avoid bias in reasoning’. Due to Covid-19 regulations, only a limited number of people can physically attend…
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