Hannie Gijlers started her career as a primary school teacher, her interest in instructional designed stimulated her to study educational sciences and pursue a career in instructional technology. She received her PhD In Educational Sciences from the University of Twente. At the University of Twente Hannie teaches in bachelor and Master program for psychology and educational sciences and works as an educational researcher. Her current research focusses on (collaborative) inquiry learning processes in the context of STEAM education. In this context Hannie contributed to the design of ICT based learning environments and published several articles on (collaborative) inquiry learning in International peer reviewed journals. Her work was funded by the Netherlands Initiative for Education Research and the Kennisnet Foundation ( a Dutch public organization for Education and ICT). In the EU ERASMUS+ project MissToHit, Hannie had a central role and worked closely together with schools and science museums on the creation and evaluation of Hands On Science Activities for use in classrooms and museums. During this project Hannie was responsible for the assessment of students’ attitudes and motivation towards STEAM related topics, as well as their topic related knowledge acquisition.