HAN University of Applied Sciences
We are HAN University of Applied Sciences, an inclusive knowledge institution with 13 schools, 36,000 students and over 80 degree programs, located on the campuses in Arnhem and Nijmegen, in the Netherlands. We offer students a springboard to a future as professional and global citizen in a society that is constantly changing. The region is our campus; our students learn at HAN and beyond. And we conduct practice-based research with, for and at companies and organizations. Together with our partners, students and staff, we are making a difference and broadening our horizons. Together we are working towards a smart, clean and social world of tomorrow!
Initiative(s)
HAN approach to Digital Educational Resources
HAN wants educators and students to have easy access to high-quality digital educational resources at realistic costs. And also develop digital learning materials ourselves and share them openly so that we contribute to the (inter)national supply. With this Approach, HAN stimulates, facilitates and evaluates the realization of this vision. This will be done in phases. Phase 2 started January 2025.
Open up - Startups
HAN collaborates with the national Npuls program. We actively participates in the scheme: Open Up. For this scheme, several startups (at HAN) have been asked to start developing open educational resources. This evaluates HAN's arranged support, professionalization and technical infrastructure. January – December 2025
Recognize and value working with digital and open educational resources
The HAN vision for OER describes 4 main activities (action perspectives) that are necessary to achieve HAN's ambition for OER. One of these main activities concerns “Stimulating”. This involves both stimulating the theme of OER at HAN and motivating HAN employees to get started with digital learning materials in their teaching. To deepen the main activity of “stimulating”, we started working on a piece about recognizing and valuing employees in the field of digital and OERs.
