Iwan Wopereis

Open Universiteit Nederland | OU · Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences

The increasing digitalization of education requires an integrated view of innovation and related expertise development. This study validated and evaluated the content and use of the ”Integrated ICT Motion Sensor”, a tool for stimulating awareness about ICT-based educational innovation among multiple stakeholders within higher education institutions...

Technological innovations are changing our society at a rapid pace. The expansion of new technologies (e.g., tools and programs) will inevitably change future jobs in the area of, for example, engineering, healthcare, and science. People working in these areas need digital human capital, which is often acquired through education prior to starting a...

The competence to perform an academic literature review task in a digital context is of paramount importance for higher education students. However, both undergraduate and graduate students have difficulty finding, analysing, and processing such information for their academic tasks. Recent studies propose a task-centred approach to teach relevant k...

Purpose Innovative use of information and communications technology (ICT) requires (new) knowledge and skills for the group that has the biggest impact on the quality of education: instructors. Facilitating professional development (PD) of instructors is crucial for the quality of one’s education system(s), perhaps even more so in times of a pandem...

Steeds meer leraren zijn actief om samen hun onderwijs te verbeteren. De Open Universiteit ontwikkelde de Dimensies van Sociaal Leren (DSL) Vragenlijst om de samenwerking te ondersteunen. Streeft iedereen nog hetzelfde doel na bijvoorbeeld? Dit instrument kan worden gebruikt voor het faciliteren van lerarengroepen. Als je interesse hebt in het DSL...

Learning in teacher learning groups (TLGs) can support (student-)teachers, teacher educators, and researchers in developing their expertise. For two years, we mapped the inquisitive attitude of 35 participants of five TLGs. Learning in TLGs was facilitated differently in the different TLGs. Four TLGs jointly studied and designed products. Members o...

Measuring teachers’ professional growth often includes a mixture of portfolio analyses and classroom observations. This study presents a newly constructed instrument to measure professional growth. This instrument is called the Interview Guide to measure Teachers’ Professional Growth (IG-TPG). The instrument builds on a questionnaire that records (...

This paper presents an evaluation of a series of six learning units on online learning that was developed by the Open University of the Netherlands and offered free of charge to educational professionals in the Netherlands and Belgium. Each unit (called 'micro module') had a study load of two to four hours and addressed didactical, technological, a...

Contemporary virtual classroom (VC) systems are promising tools for teaching in online and blended learning programs. They offer practicable means to facilitate complex learning and (academic) enculturation. This study evaluates a free-of-charge short learning course (called 'micro module') for (aspirant) teachers and educationalists that introduce...

Teacher-learning groups (TLGs) are an emerging type of collegial collaboration in teacher training colleges. A TLG of teacher educators that was studied aimed to develop a new curriculum for aspirant primary school teachers. This TLG created a sustainable knowledge base necessary to implement a new teacher training curriculum. An extended version o...

Iselinge Hogeschool en Fontys faciliteren al enige jaren lerarennetwerken waarin basisschoolleraren, pabostudenten, pabodocenten en onderzoekers samenwerken aan praktijk(gericht) onderzoek. Gedurende twee jaar is de ontwikkeling van de onderzoekende houding (OZH) van de netwerkdeelnemers gevolgd binnen vier lerarennetwerken in de Academische Werkpl...

Serendipity is a valuable constituent of professional work. In order to ‘control’ the phenomenon it is important to gain insight in its processes and influencing factors. This study examined two cases of serendipitous information behavior in professional improvised music, a domain often associated with unpredictability. The aim of the study was to...

Vrieling, E., & Wopereis (2017). Designing networked learning for innovation in teacher learning groups. Paper accepted for the annual meating for the EAPRIL conference, November 29 – December 1, in Hämeenlinna, Finland.

Reflection is a fuzzy concept. In this article we reveal the paradoxes involved in studying the nature of reflection. Whereas some scholars emphasize its discursive nature, we go further and underline its resemblance to the self-biased dialogue Socrates had with the slave in Plato’s Meno. The individual and internal nature of the reflection process...

In 2016 zijn bij de Iselinge Hogeschool projecten gestart binnen de Academische Werkplaats (Iselinge Hogeschool, 2016). In deze projecten werken basisschoolleerkrachten, lerarenopleiders, pabostudenten en onderzoekers samen aan praktijkproblemen, waarbij zij een ontwerpgerichte onderzoeksaanpak volgen (McKenney & Reeves, 2012). In deze bijdrage sta...

Vanwege het positieve effect dat (collegiale) samenwerking heeft op leren en professionaliseren, krijgen aanstaande leerkrachten in toenemende mate tijdens de opleiding de mogelijkheid om deel uit te maken van een professioneel leernetwerk. Deze studie volgde pabostudenten in netwerken, waar zij samen met leerkrachten, lerarenopleiders en onderzoek...

Extended Teams (ETs), in which teachers and workplace supervisors are jointly responsible for the quality of education, were established to solve problems concerning school–workplace connections in vocational and professional education. Six ETs were investigated during their 1st year of collaboration. In addition to recordings of ET meetings, quest...

This paper presents results of an explorative study on perceived merits of contemporary holistic approaches to designing information literacy instruction in a university setting. Seven teachers in educational sciences evaluated their premaster’s course on conducting a literature review designed according to a modern design approach, named Four-Comp...

This study explored the information problem solving behavior of a professional jazz musician during creative work. It aimed at revealing information seeking activities necessary to execute present-day musical projects. A single case was studied in depth. First, a narrative interview was conducted to reveal project phases and corresponding informati...

This study was undertaken due to the notorious frustrations of vocational educators and workplace supervisors concerning (mis)alignment between school and work contexts. Extended teams, consisting of vocational teachers and workplace supervisors, were established to share responsibility for the quality of education, and solving problems related to...

Information problem solving (IPS) is the process of locating, selecting, evaluating, and integrating information from various sources to fulfill an information need. In academia, it is central to conducting literature reviews in research projects. This paper presents a case study on effective and efficient instructional design for learning this com...

Elke jazzliefhebber staat geregeld stil bij het wonder van de improvisatie. Het lijkt zo vanzelfsprekend en gemakkelijk - en toch is het een talent dat lang niet iedereen toevalt. Iwan Wopereis doet onderzoek voor een proefschrift waarin hij het geheim van de improvisatiekunst in de jazz wil doorgronden. Hier geeft hij alvast een tussenstand.

ORD 2014 Symposium: Ontwerpen en onderzoeken in docententeams Voorzitter: Prof. dr. Joke Voogt Discussiant: Prof. dr. Klaas van Veen Introductie De aansluiting tussen leren van studenten op de werkplek en op de opleiding is voor zowel docenten als werkplekbegeleiders een bron van ontevredenheid. Extended Teams (ET's), waarin docenten en werkplekbeg...

This study presents an expert view on musical improvisational expertise. A group concept mapping procedure was used to identify key characteristics of such expertise among a group of 26 renowned musical experts. Multivariate analyses, including 2-dimensional multidimensional scaling (MDS) of unstructured sort data, hierarchical cluster analysis of...

With the coming of age of the Millennials, teacher training programs may become complacent, thinking that while the previous generation of digital immigrants that went into teaching may be a lost cause, things will now be different with the influx of digital natives into the teaching profession. This, however, is anything but true. Though Millennia...

Large organizations renew their core business software with some regularity, resulting in serious challenges for in-company training officers. Especially when large numbers of employees need to be trained to use updated software on short notice, traditional face-to-face training methods fall short. Contemporary e-learning is regarded a solution for...

Beishuizen, J., Dolmans, D., Van Driel, J., Wopereis, I., & Van Merriënboer, J. (2012, June). Het Interuniversitair Centrum voor Onderwijswetenschappen: De periode 2006-2011 nader bekeken [The Interuniversity Centre for Educational Sciences: A closer look at the period from 2006 to 2011]. Paper presented at the Onderwijs Research Dagen [Educational...

Wopereis, I., Kirschner, P. A., & Van Merriënboer, J. (2012, June). Leren improviseren in de muziek: Helpt instructie? [Learning to improvise in music: Does instruction help?]. Round table session presented at the Onderwijs Research Dagen [Educational Research Days], Wageningen, The Netherlands.

De presentatie belicht een verkennend onderzoek naar het gebruik van weblogs als instrument voor reflectie op leren en handelen tijdens de stage dat binnen het domein van de lerarenopleidingen is uitgevoerd.

In 2012, the Interuniversity Centre for Educational Sciences (ICO) has been re-accredited by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) as a national research school. In this article, the authors reflect on the evaluation of ICO which was conducted as part of the accreditation process. This evaluation was focused on the quality of th...

This special issue has described a number of excellent initiatives for the implementation of information and communications technology (ICT) into teacher training which achieve more than functional digital literacy. This article is a synthesis of these 26 cases of good practice and reveals that there are many examples of good practice which can be...

Wopereis, I., Van Merriënboer, J., & Kirschner, P. (2011, June). Leren improviseren in het muzikale domein: Waar ligt de focus voor instructie? [Learning how to improvise in the musical domain: What is the focus for instruction?]. Paper presented at the Onderwijs Research Dagen 2011, Maastricht, The Netherlands.

Ieder nieuw onderzoek begint met een systematische zoektocht naar eerder uitgevoerd en gepubliceerd onderzoek. Het resultaat van een gedegen literatuuronderzoek helpt je eerder geformuleerde zoekvragen aan te scherpen of nieuwe te formuleren. Het helpt je een eerste aanzet voor een raamwerk van het (hoofd)onderzoek te valideren of een nieuwe te ont...

This study examined the use of weblogs as a means to promote student teachers' reflective practice. The assumption was explored that weblogs are suitable tools to support and stimulate reflection on action in teacher training and consequently to enhance the students' ability to reflect. Three groups of student teachers used weblogs to reflect on te...

This poster addresses a learning biography study which aims at analyzing learning histories of both expert and non-expert improvisers (five recognized expert improvisers and five renowned musicians lacking improvisational expertise). It was hypothesized that by choosing both experts and non-experts it is possible to distinguish successful and unsuc...

This special section contributes to an inclusive cognitive model of information problem solving (IPS) activity, touches briefly IPS learning, and brings to the notice methodological pitfalls related to uncovering IPS processes. Instead of focusing on the IPS process as a whole, the contributing articles turn their attention to what is regarded the...

Tijdens deze workshop maakt u kennis met principes voor het ontwerpen van onderwijs dat is gericht op het leren van informatievaardigheden. Aan de hand van voorbeelden uit het hoger onderwijs leert u welke ontwerpprincipes u kunnen helpen om effectief onderwijs te ontwerpen. U past de principes vervolgens toe in een opdracht. In deze opdracht maakt...

De Basisworkshop 4C/ID richt zich op een eerste kennismaking met het 4C/ID-model. In het eerste deel van de workshop wordt een overzicht gegeven van het model en de ontwerpprincipes. In het tweede deel van de workshop wordt het hele-taak principe nader uitgewerkt en passen de deelnemers dit toe op het ontwerpen van leertaken voor een expertise die...

presentatie als symposiumpresentator

Een Pecha Kucha om het thema en de bijdragen van de conferentie toe te lichten.

Wopereis, I., Sloep, P., & Poortman, S. (2010, Juni). Het weblog als instrument voor reflectie op leren en handelen: Een verkennende studie binnen de eerste- en tweedegraads lerarenopleiding. Poster sessie gepresenteerd tijdens de Onderwijs Research Dagen, Enschede, Nederland.

Brand-Gruwel, S., & Wopereis, I. (2010). Word Informatievaardig! Digitale informatie selecteren, beoordelen en verwerken. [Become information literate: selection, evaluation and processing digital information]. Groningen: Noordhoff.

This paper presents the IPS-I-model: a model that describes the process of information problem solving (IPS) in which the Internet (I) is used to search information. The IPS-I-model is based on three studies, in which students in secondary and (post) higher education were asked to solve information problems, while thinking aloud. In-depth analyses...

The Interuniversity Centre for Educational Research (ICO) celebrated its 20th anniversary. This article looks back on the development of the national research school and examines whether its goals have been reached: 1) advance the quality of academic training for Dutch PhD candidates, 2) advance the quality of educational research, and 3) promote c...

Abstract Serious games open up many new opportunities for complex skills learning in higher education. The inherent complexity of such games, though, requires large efforts for their development. This paper presents a framework for serious game design, which aims to reduce the design complexity at conceptual, technical and practical levels. The app...

In higher education students are often faced with information problems: tasks or assignments that require them to identify information needs, locate corresponding information sources, extract and organize relevant information from each source, and synthesize information from a variety of sources. Explicit and intensive instruction is necessary, bec...

Brand-Gruwel, S., & Wopereis, I. (2006). Integration of the information problem-solving skill in an educational programme: The effects of learning with authentic tasks. Technology, Instruction, Cognition, and Learning, 4, 243-263.

Many Western countries are investing heavily in simulating better and more creative use of information and communication technology (ICT) in higher education. Most of the cluster deals with people-issue such as participation, information and communication, and stake holders involvement. Simulation technique of the failure and success factor consist...

In (higher) education students are often faced with information problems: tasks or assignments that require them to identify information needs, locate corresponding information sources, extract and organize relevant information from each source, and synthesize information from a variety of sources. It is often assumed that students master this comp...

Programmes for teacher training should train (aspiring) teachers to be able to make use of information and communications technology as mindtools. Mindtools are not pieces of specialised software that 'teach' a subject, but computer programs and applications that facilitate meaningful professional thinking and working. Teachers can use these progra...

This article analyses the required content and strategies of information and communications technology (ICT) training for teachers in terms of learning to know, learning to do, learning to live with each other and with others, and learning to be. We conclude that the fast-changing role and nature of ICT in education, combined with the low level of...

Strategische kennis over het oplossen van informatieproblemen: een exploratief onderzoek [Strategic knowledge about information problem solving: an explorative study]. Pedagogische Studiën, 80, 210-225.

Searching for information on the World Wide Web (WWW) basically comes down to locating an appropriate Web site and to retrieving relevant information from that site. This study examined the effect of a user's WWW experience on both phases of the search process. Twenty-five students from two schools for Dutch pre-university education were observed w...

Searching for information on the World Wide Web (WWW) basically comes down to locating an appropriate Web site and to retrieving relevant information from that site. This study examined the effect of a user's WWW experience on both phases of the search process. Twenty-five students from two schools for Dutch pre-university education were observed w...

Interuniversitair Centrum voor Onderwijsonderzoek Samenvatting Het Interuniversitair Centrum voor Onderwijsonderzoek (ICO) bestaat meer dan 20 jaar. Dit artikel blikt terug op de ontwikkeling van de school en onderzoekt of de doelstellingen bereikt zijn: (1) het bevorderen van de kwaliteit van het wetenschappelijk onderwijs voor promovendi; (2) het...

The Platform ICT and Education of SURF (Platform ICT-E), a part of the SURF Foundation which is a government-funded national organization in which all higher education institutes in the Netherlands participate set up to increase the pace of educational innovation strives to stimulate a better and more creative use of ICT within higher education. Th...

Het oplossen van informatieproblemen, waarbij studenten zelf informatie moeten zoe- ken, beoordelen en verwerken, is een complexe vaardigheid waarin instructie dient te worden gegeven. Deze instructie kan het best worden ingebed in bestaand onderwijs. In deze studie is - in een samenwerkingsverband van het Onderwijstechnologisch Experti- secentrum...

In: A.J. Kallenberg and M.J.J.M. van de Ven (Eds), 2002, The New Educational Benefits of ICT in Higher Education: Proceedings. Rotterdam: Erasmus Plus BV, OECR ISBN 90-9016127-9

Wopereis, I., Van Merriënboer, J., & Kirschner, P. (2010, June). Wat is een goede improvisator? Een expert concept mapping studie naar kenmerken ten behoeve van instructie en toetsing [What is a good improviser? An expert concept mapping study on features for instruction and testing]. Paper presented at the Onderwijs Research Dagen 2010, Enschede,...

Wopereis, I. G. J. H., & Sloep, P. B. (2009). Het weblog als instrument voor reflectie op leren en handelen [Kennisnet Essay]. Te verkrijgen via http://onderzoek.kennisnet.nl/onderzoeken/rendement/hetweblog

Bij het Centre for Learning Sciences and Technologies (CELSTEC) van de Open Universiteit wordt onderzoek gedaan naar het leren van informatievaardigheden. Het doel van dit onderzoek is om richtlijnen op te stellen voor het ontwerpen van goed, innovatief onderwijs dat het leren van deze vaardigheden faciliteert. Tijdens de lezing bespreek ik onderzo...

Tijdens de roundtable staat een expert concept mapping studie naar kenmerken ten behoeve van instructie en toetsing centraal. De focus ligt op het analyseren van de complexe vaardigheid improviseren en welke rol een concept mapping techniek kan spelen bij de analyse van de vaardigheid.

Brand-Gruwel, S., Wopereis, I., & Poortman-Cremers, S. (2005). Informatieproblemen oplossen geïntegreerd in het curriculum: Een pilot binnen een Lerarenopleiding. Tijdschrift voor Hoger Onderwijs, 2, 88-104.

Brand-Gruwel, S., Wopereis, I., & Poortman-Cremers, S. (2004). Integreren van de vaardigheid Informatieproblemen Oplossen in het curriculum: Handleiding voor docenten en onderwijsontwerpers in het hoger onderwijs. Utrecht: Digitale Universiteit.