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