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Striking the right balance between self-management of professional development and coaching: on Teacher Design Teams in exact sciencesTeacher Design Teams are viewed as an efficient tool in the professional development of secondary school teachers. Working together as a team and developing learning resources does not happen automatically. Floor Binkhorst has developed a special method for coaching these teacher teams. On 20 October, Ms Binkhorst will defend her dissertation at Twente’s Institute for Teacher Education, Science Communication & School Practices, which is part of the University of Twente’s faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences.Mon 16 Oct 2017Read more
UT researcher attacks colleaguesIn the field of online security, time and again human beings are the weakest link. PhD candidate Jan-Willem Bullee conducted several 'social attacks' at the University of Twente and examined the effectiveness of the countermeasures. He obtained a number of remarkable results: a personalized phishing e-mail is 50% more effective. Forty percent of employees installed potentially malicious software following a fake phone call. And education works, provided that not too much time passes between providing the information and the attack itself.Thu 12 Oct 2017Read more