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April 1, 2026

Mind Measuring Mind

Mind Measuring Mind explores the foundations of psychological methodology, ethical research practice, and the pivotal role of measurement in understanding behaviour and mental processes. Blending teaching material, scholarly context, and personal perspective, it opens a dialogue about the challenges and responsibilities of doing science when the subject and the scientist share the same mind. Why is psychological science different from other sciences? Psychology is the study of behaviour and mental processes. Unlike most other fields, psychologists use their own mental processes to examine those of others. This self-referential nature, “mind measuring mind,” brings unique challenges for psychological measurement and the interpretation of research results. This book critically examines psychology as a science, exploring the empirical cycle and the teaching of methodology and statistics. In most academic psychology programmes, students are expected to participate as subjects in psychological studies. To support this, a series of PBL tutorials was developed to familiarise students with the empirical cycle and encourage discussion of validity, research methods, ethical standards, scientific communication, and potential threats to responsible, high-quality research. The materials in this book are based on those tutorials. This open textbook is designed for first- and second-year BSc Psychology students at Maastricht University, particularly those navigating the renewed curriculum’s emphasis on ‘Scientific Inquiry and Critical Thinking’ (SICT). It serves as a flexible guide for students following individual learning paths, including participation in faculty-led research experiments, reflection on the empirical cycle, and connecting practical experiences to theoretical concepts such as methodology, statistics, validity, ethics, and scientific communication. Ideal for self-study, group PBL sessions, and research practicums, the book helps bridge hands-on research involvement with classroom discussions, supporting competency development in psychological research.

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Garmt Dijksterhuis

January 1, 2026

Instructions to sail your VirtualShip!

This guide will help you get started on running your VirtualShip expedition.

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Emma Daniels, Jamie Atkins, Erik van Sebille

December 16, 2025

Het gebruik van een tablet in de klas; een vloek of een zegen

Het vroegtijdig gebruik kunnen maken van digitale middelen is noodzakelijk om goed te kunnen participeren in de huidige informatiesamenleving. Aan de andere kant is te veel schermtijd slecht is voor de ontwikkeling van kinderen. Hoe gaan we daar mee om? Is het gebruik van een tablet in de klas een vloek of een zegen? Het doel van dit artikel is om leerkrachten handvatten te geven om een tablet in de klas op een juiste manier in te zetten zonder dat dit ten koste gaat van de taal en interactie.

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Margreet R. Luinge

November 19, 2025

The Stream-of-Consciousness (SoC) Dialogue Method

Using timed speaking turns, alternating roles (speaking and listening), and carefully crafted ‘prompts’ (sentence starters), this simple but potent method gradually moves pairs into deeper layers of exploration and sharing, while fostering reflection, attentive listening, and connection.

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Annick de Witt

November 7, 2025

The Matter of Hospitals

This book invites readers to discover never-before-told stories of hospitals through an unusual assortment of materials, offering a unique and timely glimpse into one of society’s most feared, essential, and sensorially rich institutions. Hospitals, with their distinctive smells, acute pain, births, writhing bodies, incessant beeping, endless waiting, cardboard food and never-ending corridors, have fascinated writers for centuries. Edited by the prize-winning author of A Sensory Education and Making Sense of Medicine, this book shares a never-before-told story of hospitals through an unusual collection of objects. A great deal that matters happens in hospitals – from new life to the end of life. There is also a great deal of matter, in its material form, within hospitals. Sometimes there is too much: when we see the mountains of clinical waste with dirty syringes and used gloves. Sometimes there is too little: when we saw empty pharmacy shelves during the pandemic. More often, matter circulates in ways that are taken for granted, invisible yet critical to how hospitals function. Each essay in this book takes the matter of hospitals as a starting point to explore broader themes. Organised alphabetically, The Matter of Hospitals investigates what we can learn from the institution’s materiality about creativity, waste, patient care, community, attention and design. From ‘A’ for atmosphere to ‘Z’ for zips, each essay is a close sensory study of what seem, on the surface, to be mundane things. Beautifully illustrated with artistic photographs and hand-drawn illustrations by the editor, The Matter of Hospitals offers an inspiring and unique examination of the stuff that so many of us take for granted, in a place that we never do.

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Anna Harris

September 24, 2025

Amateur Craft as Method-in-the-Making:

This research output documents a pandemic-era experiment in which academic researchers used knitting to record and reflect on their digital screen time, exploring craft as a critical research method and a tool for data sensitisation, feminist activism, and embodied knowledge making. Project Overview: A group of academics and amateur knitters from Maastricht University and partner institutions met online during 2020–2021, using knitting to document their own screen time over a week of lockdown. Their creative outputs—a collection of individually knitted rectangles—were later assembled as a tactile "knitted book" to display in arts and crafts contexts, as well as academic contexts. The project linked technofeminist thinking, craftivism, and artistic research practices, aiming to make visible both quantitative and qualitative aspects of technology use during social isolation. Main Topics and Learning Objectives: • Explore how amateur craftwork (knitting) can act as a research method to sensitise and interpret personal data. • Engage with concepts from technofeminism and critical craft studies to understand the role of tactile, embodied methodologies. • Foster social connection, experimentation, and reflection on digital dependency during the COVID-19 lockdown. • Develop awareness of how materials, technique, and individual interpretation shape both method and outcome in collaborative research. Audience: This work suits students, educators, and researchers interested in qualitative and artistic research methods, feminist theory, science and technology studies (STS), and creative digital-literacy pedagogies. It models interdisciplinary practice and encourages engagement with data, methodology, and making as interconnected experiential processes. Authors and Licensing: Authors: Denise Petzold (first and corresponding author), Laura Barendregt, Ruth Benschop, Anna Harris, Laudy van den Heuvel, Bernike Pasveer, Veerle Spronck, Sally Wyatt, affiliated with Maastricht University, TU Delft, Zuyd University of Applied Sciences, and HKU University of Arts Utrecht. The text is suitable for publication in open educational repositories and supports open, collaborative engagement with academic craftwork. The pictures of the digitised version of the book were taken by Eric Bleize. Suggested Citation: “Amateur Craft as Method-in-the-Making: Experiments in Knitting Screen Time during a Pandemic” by Denise Petzold, Laura Barendregt, Ruth Benschop, Anna Harris, Laudy van den Heuvel, Bernike Pasveer, Veerle Spronck and Sally Wyatt (2025), Maastricht University, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). This license permits reuse, distribution, and adaptation, provided appropriate credit is given.

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Denise Petzold, Laura Barendregt, Ruth Benschop, Anna Harris, Laudy van den Heuvel, Bernike Pasveer, Veerle Spronck, Sally Wyatt

September 16, 2025

The life cycle assessment of everyday objects

This educational resource has been made as part of the Digital Impressions project and has been last updated at 16.19.2025. The resource encompasses a complete guide for teaching sustainability through objects. The table of content exists of: Reason for doing a life cycle assessment...........................................................................2 Limitations..........................................................................................................................2 Target audience..................................................................................................................3 Learning objectives............................................................................................................3 Activity................................................................................................................................4 Resources...........................................................................................................................5 Variations............................................................................................................................5 Variation 1: mini LCA........................................................................................................5 Variation 2: full LCA project.............................................................................................6 Appendix 1: assignment sheet............................................................................................7 Reference list.....................................................................................................................8

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Sofia Zampedri, Linde Voorend

July 14, 2025

Playing Perspectives - a game design toolkit

Students collectively design a game on a polarizing topic and are stimulated to explore and gain a deeper understanding of various perspectives and presuppositions (including their own), recognize rhetorical narratives and frames, and devise strategies to overcome these. Students adopt active listening skills when conversing with one another. Playing Perspectives is based on game-based and transformative learning principles. Playing Perspectives consists of three phases. These can be conducted consecutively or separate from one another as stand alone activities, depending on the time available, your learning objectives and the desire to have a playable game as end product. The materials that are developed by students in each of these phases can be uploaded onto Edusources and used by other teachers if they only want to conduct one of the later phases as stand alone activity. Playing Perspectives was developed as part of the Utrecht University Comenius project Fostering an Open Mind and Open Attitude in Higher Education that strives to stimulate perspective taking and dialogue in academic education with creative learning activities. The other learning activities that have been developed as part of the Open Minds project are the Open Mind digital game and The Square (Het Vlak; a creative dialogue methodology). Please note: the photos required for phase 1 can be downloaded from the Teaching & Learning Collection of the UU (see links).

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Robin Bos, Jasper van Vught, Open Minds UU

July 1, 2025

Educational resources for Object Based Teaching and Learning

This collection consists of several educational resources pertaining to teaching with objects. These resources aim to support you in getting started with the numerous ways that objects can be implemented in education and to inspire you in creating your own version of these lesson plans. Every publication below includes documents with instructions and (a link to) the specific object that is used in the lesson plan. Some of the educational resources are linked to a digitized clay tablet. If this is the case, the publication of that resource will include a link to that digitized clay tablet. Moreover, the links & downloads underneath present you with a guide that presents several practical methods of Object Based Teaching and Learning (OBTL) linked to the learning objectives to which they cater. The guide includes numerous links to articles and case studies. In addition, you’ll find some information pages on OBTL as a didactical theory and its implementation at the VU.

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Linde Voorend, Kim Dibbets, Michèle Meijer, Aidan Houtkamp, Sofia Zampedri

May 13, 2025

Werboek inhoudsanalyse

Werkboek Inhoudsanalyse is een praktische handleiding om te leren hoe je op een betrouwbare en verantwoordelijke manier kunt analyseren hoe mensen met elkaar communiceren. Dit boek richt zich op het ontwerpen en uitvoeren van studies die gebruik maken van kwantitatieve inhoudsanalyse als onderzoeksmethode. Deze eerste editie is ontwikkeld in het kader van de opleiding Communicatie- en Informatiewetenschappen (CIW) van Tilburg University. Binnen één semester schrijven studenten een onderzoeksvoorstel en voeren ze het voorstel vervolgens ook uit. Deze groepsopdracht is volledig uitgewerkt in de bijlagen van het boek.

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Emiel van Miltenburg