Research Unit

Healthcare Education Research Centre

Acronym
HERC
Duration
01 December 2021 → Ongoing
Group leader
Research disciplines
  • Social sciences
    • Medicine, nursing and health curriculum and pedagogics
    • Instructional psychology and instructional design
    • Vocational education, professional training, lifelong learning
  • Medical and health sciences
    • Health care administration
Description
The Healthcare Education Research Centre brings together researchers involved in the design, implementation and evaluation of education and training in healthcare education settings in its broadest sense (from professional to specialist education progarmmes in institutional settings to lifelong learning, in-service training and lifelong learning). The researchers build on a large network within and outside the Department of Educational Studies and are involved in research about ePortfolios, lifelong learning, curriculum design, clinical simulations, 3D animaties, tool development in an (inter)national network constellation.