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European University Association, 2023
The "Innovative Leadership and Change Management in Higher Education" (NEWLEAD, 2020-2023) focused on capacity building of university leaders to steer change and address new priorities on the institutional transformation agenda. Findings from the NEWLEAD project demonstrate that leading and transforming universities is a complex…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Higher Education, Educational Innovation, Capacity Building
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Ehlen, Corry G. J. M.; van der Klink, Marcel R.; Boshuizen, Henny P. A. – Studies in Continuing Education, 2016
Increasingly, innovative collaboration between industry and schools is being exploited as a way of improving the quality and relevance of education. Even though these innovations appear to have substantial benefits, often the impact proves to fade away after their implementation. A better understanding of how to sustain complex innovations seems…
Descriptors: School Business Relationship, Social Capital, Interpersonal Relationship, Educational Quality
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Wolfensberger, Marca V. C.; Van Eijl, Pierre; Pilot, Albert – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2012
In Dutch universities, honors programs are a fast growing development. The first such programs started in 1993. Twenty years later a large number of programs are implemented at nearly all research universities and also at many universities of applied sciences in the Netherlands. Recent data have revealed significant diversity in the types and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Honors Curriculum, Educational Innovation, Universities
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Seezink, Audrey; Poell, Rob; Kirschner, Paul – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2010
This paper reports on a case study investigating learning outcomes at the individual and organisational level of a cross-institutional innovation project based on the SOAP approach. SOAP integrates "S"chooling of teachers, "O"rganisational development of schools, "A"ction- and development-oriented research, and…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Educational Principles, Educational Innovation, Interviews
Netherlands Ministry of Education and Sciences, The Hague. – 1976
This publication discusses plans for an experimental "middenschool" program, which is being considered for adoption in the Netherlands. The middenschool program would extend the period of basic education beyond primary school into the first stage of secondary school, serving students in the 12-16 or 11-15 age bracket. This booklet…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Change Strategies, Educational Innovation, Experimental Programs
Kopmels, Dook – 1988
In 12 brief chapters, a view is provided of elementary school improvement efforts made by participants in the Contact School Plan of the Council of Europe's Council for Cultural Co-operation. The Contact School Plan created a network of 12 schools implementing innovative educational practices in as many nations. Chapters 1 and 2 describe the…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Educational Innovation, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
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van Driel, Jan H.; Verloop, Nico; van Werven, H. Inge; Dekkers, Hetty – Higher Education, 1997
A study investigated the success of a project to create a more student-centered engineering curriculum at a Dutch technical university by assessing how faculty's conceptions of teaching related to their teaching practices. Results indicated that although faculty had strong commitment to student learning, they also had misconceptions about…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Faculty, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
Verduin-Muller, Henriette, Ed. – 1984
Fifteen papers presented at conferences throughout Europe and in the USSR, Nigeria, Japan, Jamaica, and Tunesia provide an introduction to the research work being done by the graduate level Department of Geography for Education (G.ED.) at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. An introductory chapter describes the three G.ED. modules, which…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Developing Nations, Educational Innovation
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). – 1977
The document comprises three articles which analyze roles and tasks of teachers in innovative elementary schools in the United States, Netherlands, and England. Innovative schools are interpreted as schools which favor educational practices such as open classrooms, team teaching, parent involvement, nongraded classes, global orientation,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classes (Groups of Students), Comparative Education, Educational Environment