Stoas University of Applied Sciences and Teacher Education
The Netherlands
Dronten and Den Bosch
In 2011: Start in Wageningen, city of agricultural higher education on (professional) University level.
Paper presented at the International Webinar Conference on the occasion of the kick-off of the DIALE project, Thursday the 16th of november 2010 at 1 PM.
Jolanda Stolk
Jan-Willem Noom
About Stoas UniversityStoas University is one of the fiveAgricultural Universities in The Netherlands at which students are trained for management-Jobs in Agriculture and horticulture.
The graduates of Stoas will find jobs in Education (60%) or in Management (40%) Students can choose from several specializations:
Associate Degree Bachelor Degree Master Degree
Specializations
Nature & Communication
Engineering and management
Recreation Animals
Animal Husbandry Horse keeping
Food Technology Landscape Design
Horticulture andArable farming
Flower DesignSpecial Education
Competence based education
Arie Keijzer
Head student office
International courses
Part time teacher ICT
Personally interested in ICT especially social media
2 days a week: Stoas
Jan-Willem Noom
• Teacher in garden and landscape design;
• Teacher in professional didactics;• Teacher in VAL (Virtual action
learning);• Coach;• Coordinator of study and career
guidance;• Coordinator propaedeutic level;• Coordinator/advisor international
mobility students;• Interest: using social media in
lessons, educational programmes;• Fulltime agreement at the university;
Jolanda Stolk
• Teacher animal husbandry• Teacher in professional didactics;• Teacher internatinal groups• Coach;• Coordinator/advisor international mobility students;• Interest: using social media in lessons, educational
programmes;
• Fulltime agreement at the university;
Practice based examples of Social media in our educational programmes
-Design a guided tour in a garden, film it with your own mobile phone, edit, add horticultural information and share the movies at Youtube to share knowledge;
-Let studentgroups prepare presentations about infrastructures, by using Google earth;
-Create brainwaves about a subject by designing a learning question at Hyves (=a kind of facebook, popular Dutch network between teenagers)
-Create knowledge construction with Virtual action learning
-Let students construct their own professional networkportfolio with Linkedin