I start (tomorrow, Monday, really) on September 1, 2024 at the KB, the national library. I am incredibly excited about this. During the summer vacation I read a few books in preparation (mind you, I also just listened to books by Mathijs Deen😉). One was “The Consolation of Philosophy,” an older book by Alain de Botton, which I like to read or listen back to from time to time.

I was Director Student and Educational Affairs at VU Amsterdam from September 2020 to January 2024, and I wrote some blogs during that time, a.o. about being a community university, connecting the worlds of open science and open education, and about knowledge equity. They have now been archived. So I list them here instead in one pdf file, where I can link to.

My previous blogposts from TU Delft Library (published in a WordPress site) have been archived recently. I here use the link I found in the wayback machine. If anybody can help me with getting the .XML export from WordPress into Github pages, much appreciated! But for now this will do I guess.

For one year (up till 1 September 2024) I was Captain of Transformation for Npuls, within the transformation hub Digital Educational Resources. We aim at getting all digital educational resources available and accessible for everyone, as per 2032. I wrote a few blogs in this year: The less I search, the more I discover Linking up with transformation hub initiatives Make your voice heard - join the European Education Area Consultation!

I have been thinking about this for some time now. At the moment I am Captain of Transformation at the Dutch programma Npuls, for the topic Digital Educational Resources.