Jantina Huizenga is a PhD student at the Graduate School of Teaching and Learning at the University of Amsterdam. Her research subject is gaming in secondary education. She completed a Bachelors degree in Social Work at the Horst University of Applied Sciences (now part of Utrecht University of Applied Sciences) in 2000 and a Bachelor and Masters degree in Education and Child Studies in 2006 at the University of Leiden. During her study and after graduation she worked at the same University and also for an organization called Technika 10 located in Amsterdam. She’s always been interested in the added value of ICT for education.

In April 2007 Jantina started working at the University of Amsterdam on her PhD project called “Digital Games and Game-based Learning in Secondary Education”. For this project she conducted research on the mobile game Frequency 1550. She's now working on a review of game-based learning literature, weighing results based on the quality of the studies involved. After the review she will conduct research on Games Atelier, a new educational tool that teachers and pupils can use to play, share and view locative mobile games.

More on Frequency 1550
More on Games Atelier

Groenendijk, T., Huizenga, J., & Toorenaar, A. (2009). Lessen in mediawijsheid: Onderzoek naar effecten van lessen in mediawijsheid met ICT in het kunstonderwijs. (see bottom of this page for link to this research report)

Admiraal, W., Akkerman, S., Huizenga, J., Zeijts, H. van. (2009). Location-based technology and game-based learning in secondary education: learning about medieval Amsterdam. In A. de Souza e Silva & D.M. Sutko (Eds.), Digital cityscape. Merging digital and urban playspaces (pp. 302-320). New York: Peter Lang.

Admiraal, W., & Huizenga, J. (2009). Conferentieverslag. De jaarlijkse European Conference on Games-Based Learning (ECGBL), 16-17 oktober 2008, Barcelona. Pedagogische Studiën, 86, 67-70.

Huizenga, J., Admiraal, W., Akkerman, S., & Dam, G. ten (2009). Learning History by playing a mobile city game. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 25, 332-344.

Admiraal, W., Akkerman, S., Huizenga, J., Zeijts, H. van. (2009). Location-based technology and game-based learning in secondary education: learning about medieval Amsterdam. In A. de Souza e Silva & D. Sutko (Eds.), Hybrid reality games: Reconfiguring social and urban networks via locative media. Peter Lang.

Akkerman, S., Admiraal, W., & Huizenga, J. (2008). Storification in History education: A mobile game in and about medieval Amsterdam. Computers & Education. Doi: 10.1016/j.compedu.2008.09.014.

Huizenga, J., Admiraal, W., Akkerman, S, Dam, G. ten. (2008). Cognitive and affective effects of learning History by playing a mobile game. In M. Stanfield & T. Connolly (Eds.) Proceedings of the 2nd European Conference on Games-Based Learning (pp. 207-212). Reading, UK: Academic Publishing ltd.

Huizenga, J., Hordijk, R. & Lubsen, A. (2008). De wereld als leeromgeving: speels en creatief gebruik van GPS en mobiele techniek in het onderwijs. There's also an English version "The world as learning environment: playful and creative use of GPS and mobile technology in education".  Both the Dutch and English version can be downloaded at the bottom of this page.

Huizenga, J., Admiraal, W., Akkerman, S., & Dam, G. ten (2007). Learning History by playing a mobile city game. In D. Remenyi (Ed.), Proceedings of the 1st European Conference on Game-Based Learning (ECGBL), October 2007, University of Paisley , Paisley , Scotland (pp. 127 – 134). Reading , UK : Academic Conferences Limited.

Huizenga, J., Admiraal, W., Akkerman, S., & Dam, G. ten (2007). Learning History by playing a mobile city game. In A. Popova (Ed.), Proceedings of the 3rd Technology-enhanced Learning Enlargement Workshop, September 28th. 2007 Sofia Bulgaria (pp. 31-41). Sofia : St. Kliment Ohridski University Press.

Some of these publications can be found in the Digital Academic Repository using the link below. If you have problems accessing the publications, contact me and I’ll be happy to send you a copy.

Link to my publications in Digital Academic Repository (DAREnet)
Link to "De wereld als leeromgeving"
Link to "The world as learning environment"
Link to "Lessen in mediawijsheid"