SURFfoundation Centre for Knowledge and Expertise
The SURF Centre for Knowledge and Expertise comprises the following activities:
Special Interest Groups
For specific fields of knowledge SURFfoundation brings together various experts from the field in so-called Special Interest Groups (SIGs). Through these expertise groups SURFfoundation facilitates and stimulates establishing communities, combining expertise and dissemination of knowledge. The SIGs undertake their own activities in sub domains, based on activity plans, budget and cost estimates. Five SIGs are active in the field of e-Learning. They each have their own website.
SURFfoundation Education portal
The e-Learning theme site is aimed at a broad target group: anyone who wishes to create education innovation with ICT in higher education. The site presents real-world examples and background articles on e-Learning in higher education. In the years to come the e-Learning Theme site is to grow into the SURFfoundation Education portal: the website in the field of ICT and Education. The content of the Education portal will become the responsibility of an Editorial Board. A news column will be an important part of the new Education portal and a network of correspondents will support the portal and will be responsible for newsgathering.
The e-Learning Theme site will give access to the websites of the following subjects in the field of education:
Promoting expertise
In the field of e-Learning SURFfoundation strives for sustainable, concrete innovation in the workspace. Promoting expertise, i.e., sharing expertise and experience and developing knowledge and skills, is an important incentive.
Seminars and fact-finding missions
In order to exchange knowledge, to bring expertise together and to develop and maintain networks, SURFfoundation organises various seminars, community days and NetWerkTafels (Networking Tables) on specific e-Learning-related issues. Moreover SURFfoundation keeps higher education (and ICT) up to date on current and future developments in the field of e-Learning, for example through the SURFfoundation Onderwijsdagen (SURFfoundation Education Seminars). Fact-finding missions aim to relate the Dutch initiatives to developments abroad.
Overview of all SURFfoundation seminars.
Publications
In order to inform the institutions for higher education of relevant developments and research as well as project results and initiatives, SURFfoundation regularly issues printed publications, which it also makes available through its SURFfoundation website. In order to make the contents available to its international target group as well SURFfoundation provides each publication with a summary in English. SURFfoundation also provides its target group with relevant information through electronic newsletters.
Overview of all SURFfoundation publications.