LAB Focus Blogs
The blogs of LAB's four focus areas bring forth each focus area’s RDI and education activities.
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The LAB publication series publishes reports, monographs and compilations based on the RDI and higher education teaching activities at LAB.
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Communicative Case-Based Assignments in Higher Education: Pedagogical Challenges in the Age of Flexibility and GenAI
Case-based teaching is widely used in higher education to connect theoretical knowledge with realistic professional situations. In professional communication courses, case-based assignments are expected to support the development of communication skills that students will need in their future working life. This article examines the implementation of communicative case-based assignments on the course English for professional development and discusses pedagogical challenges encountered in their implementation. Source
Combining Critical and Creative Thinking with the Development of Educational Technology based on Contextual Generative AI
Conversations around Artificial Intelligence (AI) based educational technology (EdTech) are currently storming. Discussions vary between critical thinking and optimism. Others see AI being as a solution to the cross-pressure of tightening funding and educational pressures. Other ones emphasize in AI’s risks. This article opens discussion based on academic literature, and gives an example of combination of critical, analytical and creative thinking when developing a contextual, generative AI based EdTech capability. Source
Before you add AI to your business, ask yourself why
Artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly has become a core of digital transformation across industries. Some specialists even call AI the fourth industrial revolution. However, the growing accessibility of AI technologies brings a crucial question: what happens if these tools are adopted without any clear strategy. Cited and date of citation. Available at Source
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Local Climate Council Strengthens Municipal Climate Action
Cities are at the heart of climate action. The European Commission notes that urban areas both feel the impacts of climate change, like heatwaves and flooding, and generate most of today’s emissions, especially from transport and buildings. Because of this, local authorities play a key role in Europe’s shift toward climate‑neutral and climate‑resilient communities. (European […] The post Local Climate Council Strengthens Municipal Climate Action appeared first on LAB Focus.
Integrating Climate Policy into Business Strategy
Nowadays, climate policy has moved from a peripheral consideration to a crucial driver factor in industrial competitiveness. The European Commission (2021) and the European Union (2023) show that, within the European Union, carbon-related regulations such as Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism ─ CBAM ─ have embedded carbon costs into trade that has caused transformational environmental regulation […] The post Integrating Climate Policy into Business Strategy appeared first on LAB Focus.
LAB Biofine’s pilot plant will become the heart of the ecosystem and a test platform for the future
The purpose of the LAB Biofine project is to build a LAB Biofine ecosystem around innovation and development. However, it was already clear during the ideation phase of the project that the core of the ecosystem would be a concrete LAB Biofine pilot plant. (LAB University of Applied Sciences 2024.) When the LAB Biofine project […] The post LAB Biofine’s pilot plant will become the heart of the ecosystem and a test platform for the future appeared first on LAB Focus.