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2. Structure University of Amsterdam 7 Faculties Faculty of Social & Behavioural Sciences 6 Departments Dept of Pedagogical & Educational Sciences Education Research FundamentalApplied SCO-Kohnstamm Instituut

3. Educational research Fundamental (basic) research  Policy and organization in education  School development and leadership  Accessibility, differentiation and effectiveness of education  Early childhood education and family support  Developmental difficulties, childrearing problems, and integrative childcare  Basic skill acquisition and social-emotional functioning Applied (contract) research  The young child  Primary education and special education  Secondary education  Vocational education and adult education  Higher education  Child care  Language education  Arts and cultural education  Education and ICT  Management and labour in the education system Accounts

4. Account Education and ICT Ministry of Education Ministry of Economic Affairs Scientific Council for Government Policy Municipal governments Digital University SURF (Foundation ICT in Dutch higher education) Foundation Kennisnet / ICT in schools School boards European Commission:  IST  Comenius3-Minerva

5. Diversity Types of research Topics Policy-oriented / practice-oriented Micro-meso-macro

6. Some flavour ICT-Expertise Centre Electronic Learning Environments ICT-monitor Higher Education Evaluation CoP’s for professional development of primary school teachers Evaluation GrassRoots projects Learning Objects in practice Design-oriented knowledge development Concept Maps ICT-implementation strategies in higher education related to change management Trails in digital learning environments etc

7. European projects CSCL CoP European Schools Project (1988) CSCL CoP CSCL CL-net TSER (1998) CSCL CS Concept Mapping Representation (1998) CS Concept Mapping Electronic Learning Environments IST-CODEX-IP (1999) Electronic Learning Environments CSCL COMENIUS3 European Collaborative Learning Network (2001) CSCL CSCL IST-ITCOLE (2001) CSCL Open architecture schools IST-OASIS (2001) Open architecture schools Repository learning objects IST-CELEBRATE (2002) Repository learning objects Technology-enhanced learning Kaleidoscope NoE (2004) Technology-enhanced learning CSCL & eJournalism EU-Asia Learning Bridges (2005) CSCL & eJournalism LLL TEN COMPETENCE (2006-2010) LLL 7 th FP???

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