From 44a2fedcd11e6778f7360e2dade357bc1782ed83 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Erik van Sebille Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2026 14:01:24 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 1/6] Blog post about the scale-up grant --- src/posts/scaleup-grant/index.md | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+) create mode 100644 src/posts/scaleup-grant/index.md diff --git a/src/posts/scaleup-grant/index.md b/src/posts/scaleup-grant/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0cfb1d6 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/posts/scaleup-grant/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +--- +title: 'Funding to Scale Up the VirtualShip Classroom to four other Universities' +date: '2026-02-20' +authors: + - name: Erik van Sebille + github: erikvansebille +summary: 'VirtucalShip has received funding to support scaling up in courses at four other universities' +--- + +We are excited to announce that we have received 100k€ funding to scale up the VirtualShip project and implement and sustainably embed the VirtualShip Classroom platform at four other universities! + +The project **Virtual ocean fieldwork: the VirtualShip Classroom platform for +interdisciplinary marine education** has been funded by the [Dutch National Education Institute (NKO)](https://www.nko.nl/en) and provides 30 months of support to work with coordinators, lecturers and teaching assistants to use the VirtualShip in courses ranging from undergraduate biology to graduate civil engineering. + +We will continue to make all VirtualShip Classroom material available online under a permissive open-access license through GitHub and the VirtualShip website. We will also make our material available as an e-course on the Ulearning platform. + +The results of this project will also be relevant for educational professionals in other contexts where fieldwork is an important aspect of learning. We will therefore ensure that we disseminate our results also to the broader education innovation community, for example through the Centers for Academic Learning, Teaching and Education Support at the universities involved. + +See below the summary of the project, written by Erik van Sebille, Emma Daniels, Jamie Atkins, Tinka Murk, Jasper de Goeij, Renske Gelderloos, and Britas Klemens +Eriksson: + +_Marine science relies on fieldwork on and in the ocean for data-collection. This means that marine science students need to be trained in sea-going fieldwork. However, such training is expensive, logistically challenging, and an environmental burden because ships emit significant amounts of CO2._ + +_To provide students the opportunity to experience what working at sea is like, we have developed a platform for virtual oceanic fieldwork: the VirtualShip Classroom, which provides Python code and VR tools for different aspects of fieldwork such as expedition planning, sampling and data analysis. After four iterations at Utrecht University that were very positively evaluated by students, we now want to scale up the platform by embedding it in courses at other universities._ + +_Collaborating with four universities (Technical University Delft, Wageningen University and Research, University of Amsterdam and University of Groningen), we will implement and sustainably embed the VirtualShip Classroom platform in different educational contexts, in courses on BSc and MSc level ranging from ecology to physics. As funding for continued development of the platform is already secured, lessons learned at the other universities can be directly implemented in the platform, and through our open access license be used by teachers and students around the world._ + +Please get in [contact with Erik van Sebille](https://www.uu.nl/staff/EvanSebille) if you want to know more about this project! \ No newline at end of file From e712feddc24b1c3e4c771bfe0a04d94133958b47 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "pre-commit-ci[bot]" <66853113+pre-commit-ci[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2026 14:02:17 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 2/6] [pre-commit.ci] auto fixes from pre-commit.com hooks for more information, see https://pre-commit.ci --- src/posts/scaleup-grant/index.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/posts/scaleup-grant/index.md b/src/posts/scaleup-grant/index.md index 0cfb1d6..11a0fcb 100644 --- a/src/posts/scaleup-grant/index.md +++ b/src/posts/scaleup-grant/index.md @@ -25,4 +25,4 @@ _To provide students the opportunity to experience what working at sea is like, _Collaborating with four universities (Technical University Delft, Wageningen University and Research, University of Amsterdam and University of Groningen), we will implement and sustainably embed the VirtualShip Classroom platform in different educational contexts, in courses on BSc and MSc level ranging from ecology to physics. As funding for continued development of the platform is already secured, lessons learned at the other universities can be directly implemented in the platform, and through our open access license be used by teachers and students around the world._ -Please get in [contact with Erik van Sebille](https://www.uu.nl/staff/EvanSebille) if you want to know more about this project! \ No newline at end of file +Please get in [contact with Erik van Sebille](https://www.uu.nl/staff/EvanSebille) if you want to know more about this project! From cb1b2e5c47bcff492db4db548e06d44a1aba45a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Erik van Sebille Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2026 07:34:15 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 3/6] Fixing review suggestions --- src/posts/scaleup-grant/index.md | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/posts/scaleup-grant/index.md b/src/posts/scaleup-grant/index.md index 11a0fcb..d45c8fe 100644 --- a/src/posts/scaleup-grant/index.md +++ b/src/posts/scaleup-grant/index.md @@ -12,12 +12,11 @@ We are excited to announce that we have received 100k€ funding to scale up the The project **Virtual ocean fieldwork: the VirtualShip Classroom platform for interdisciplinary marine education** has been funded by the [Dutch National Education Institute (NKO)](https://www.nko.nl/en) and provides 30 months of support to work with coordinators, lecturers and teaching assistants to use the VirtualShip in courses ranging from undergraduate biology to graduate civil engineering. -We will continue to make all VirtualShip Classroom material available online under a permissive open-access license through GitHub and the VirtualShip website. We will also make our material available as an e-course on the Ulearning platform. +We will continue to make all VirtualShip Classroom material available online under a permissive open-access license through GitHub and the VirtualShip website. We will also make our material available as an e-course on [edusources](https://edusources.nl). -The results of this project will also be relevant for educational professionals in other contexts where fieldwork is an important aspect of learning. We will therefore ensure that we disseminate our results also to the broader education innovation community, for example through the Centers for Academic Learning, Teaching and Education Support at the universities involved. +The results of this project will also be relevant for educational professionals in other contexts where fieldwork is an important aspect of learning. We will therefore ensure that we disseminate our results also to the broader education innovation community, for example through scientific articles, the Centers for Academic Learning, Teaching and Education Support at the universities involved. -See below the summary of the project, written by Erik van Sebille, Emma Daniels, Jamie Atkins, Tinka Murk, Jasper de Goeij, Renske Gelderloos, and Britas Klemens -Eriksson: +See below the summary of the project, written by Erik van Sebille, Emma Daniels, Jamie Atkins, Tinka Murk, Jasper de Goeij, Renske Gelderloos, and Britas Klemens Eriksson: _Marine science relies on fieldwork on and in the ocean for data-collection. This means that marine science students need to be trained in sea-going fieldwork. However, such training is expensive, logistically challenging, and an environmental burden because ships emit significant amounts of CO2._ From b2cba14edd296eda4b316e82b63cb8e841721d3c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Erik van Sebille Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2026 14:50:58 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 4/6] Update src/posts/scaleup-grant/index.md Co-authored-by: Jamie Atkins <106238905+j-atkins@users.noreply.github.com> --- src/posts/scaleup-grant/index.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/posts/scaleup-grant/index.md b/src/posts/scaleup-grant/index.md index d45c8fe..d468110 100644 --- a/src/posts/scaleup-grant/index.md +++ b/src/posts/scaleup-grant/index.md @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ date: '2026-02-20' authors: - name: Erik van Sebille github: erikvansebille -summary: 'VirtucalShip has received funding to support scaling up in courses at four other universities' +summary: 'VirtualShip has received funding to support scaling up in courses at four other universities' --- We are excited to announce that we have received 100k€ funding to scale up the VirtualShip project and implement and sustainably embed the VirtualShip Classroom platform at four other universities! From 112164b887083315317cb341531ab7e52dd93730 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Erik van Sebille Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2026 14:51:18 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 5/6] Update src/posts/scaleup-grant/index.md Co-authored-by: Jamie Atkins <106238905+j-atkins@users.noreply.github.com> --- src/posts/scaleup-grant/index.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/posts/scaleup-grant/index.md b/src/posts/scaleup-grant/index.md index d468110..a876246 100644 --- a/src/posts/scaleup-grant/index.md +++ b/src/posts/scaleup-grant/index.md @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ authors: summary: 'VirtualShip has received funding to support scaling up in courses at four other universities' --- -We are excited to announce that we have received 100k€ funding to scale up the VirtualShip project and implement and sustainably embed the VirtualShip Classroom platform at four other universities! +We are excited to announce that we have received €100k funding to scale up the VirtualShip project and implement and sustainably embed the VirtualShip Classroom platform at four other universities! The project **Virtual ocean fieldwork: the VirtualShip Classroom platform for interdisciplinary marine education** has been funded by the [Dutch National Education Institute (NKO)](https://www.nko.nl/en) and provides 30 months of support to work with coordinators, lecturers and teaching assistants to use the VirtualShip in courses ranging from undergraduate biology to graduate civil engineering. From f68a7495099b8eda26f4926e71da507ef0833cbe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Erik van Sebille Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2026 14:51:32 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 6/6] Update src/posts/scaleup-grant/index.md Co-authored-by: Jamie Atkins <106238905+j-atkins@users.noreply.github.com> --- src/posts/scaleup-grant/index.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/posts/scaleup-grant/index.md b/src/posts/scaleup-grant/index.md index a876246..69abb33 100644 --- a/src/posts/scaleup-grant/index.md +++ b/src/posts/scaleup-grant/index.md @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ interdisciplinary marine education** has been funded by the [Dutch National Educ We will continue to make all VirtualShip Classroom material available online under a permissive open-access license through GitHub and the VirtualShip website. We will also make our material available as an e-course on [edusources](https://edusources.nl). -The results of this project will also be relevant for educational professionals in other contexts where fieldwork is an important aspect of learning. We will therefore ensure that we disseminate our results also to the broader education innovation community, for example through scientific articles, the Centers for Academic Learning, Teaching and Education Support at the universities involved. +The results of this project will also be relevant for educational professionals in other contexts where fieldwork is an important aspect of learning. We will therefore ensure that we disseminate our results also to the broader education innovation community, for example through scientific articles, as well as the Centers for Academic Learning, Teaching and Education Support at the universities involved. See below the summary of the project, written by Erik van Sebille, Emma Daniels, Jamie Atkins, Tinka Murk, Jasper de Goeij, Renske Gelderloos, and Britas Klemens Eriksson: