1. 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

2. About Stoas University Stoas University is one of the five Agricultural 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 DegreeBachelor DegreeMaster Degree

3. Specializations Nature & Communication Engineering and management Recreation Animals Animal HusbandryHorse keeping Food TechnologyLandscape Design Horticulture and Arable farming Flower DesignSpecial Education

4. Competence based education

5. Arie Keijzer Head student office International courses Part time teacher ICT Personally interested in ICT especially social media 2 days a week: Stoas

6. 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;

7. 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;

8. 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