Projects
CLIL teaching materials for 21st-century competencies. KU Leuven
This project focuses on the development of CLIL teaching materials in English, French, and German that aim to develop 16-18-year-old learners’ 21st-century skills (e.g., critical thinking, intercultural competence, collaboration). The teaching materials’ contents focus on the UN sustainability goals (e.g., peace, poverty, health), and will look upon these topics from multiple European perspectives. By comparing and contrasting different ...
'Ad fontes!' in the Classroom: Teaching Latin, Greek, and Hebrew Texts in the Early Modern Southern Low Countries KU Leuven
The Teaching of the Old Testament Revolutionized? The Sixteenth-Century Low Countries and the First Institutionalized Hebrew Curriculum. KU Leuven
Whereas the spread of Latin, Greek, and Hebrew texts in the Renaissance has been extensively studied, the didactic praxis involved in teaching these languages and their literatures at European universities and institutes has not yet met with systematic and in-depth focused research. Studying the teaching practices used in the early modern auditoria is, however, quintessential to a correct understanding of the transmission of linguistic and ...
Digital learning and teaching methodology. Building a knowledge base for the educational field. KU Leuven
EFFECTIVE in TEACHING FRENCH: a blended learning path for (future) primary school teachers Thomas More
Multicultural Classrooms: Inclusive Learning and Teaching in Higher Education HOGENT
IOF PoC “CAPTCHA 2.0 - Completely Automated Processing of scanned Text documents by teaching Computers how Humans Analyze them” Vrije Universiteit Brussel
These were introduced to prevent spam attacks by exploiting that computer vision has not (yet?) reached human capabilities, meanwhile helping with image-to-text processing of old book scans. Humans are indeed superior in recognizing text from complicated ...
Competencies of higher education teachers regarding teaching students with learning disabilities HOGENT
The Secretive Diffusion of the New Philosophy in the Low Countries: Evidence on the Teaching of Cartesian Philosophy from Student Notebooks 1650-1750 KU Leuven
The diffusion of Descartes’ new philosophy was a story of both success and opposition. In the Low Countries, where Descartes has settled in 1628, his dualistic and materialistic physics and metaphysics were welcomed because of their novelty, and rejected because of several incompatible views with the prevalent Aristotelian, c.q. Catholic doctrine. Yet, if this famous chapter of the history of philosophy seems to have been written already in ...