08-04-2023

Challenge the future

DelftUniversity ofTechnology

From OpenCourseWare to Online Education

Willem van Valkenburg & Anka Mulder

Agenda

• To inform you:

•What is happening around the world?

•What are all those abbreviations?

•What is happening at TU Delft?

•Who pays for this?

• To ask from you:

• Suggestions, ideas about pitfalls

• Questions

What is happening around the world?1.

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/04/us/auditing-classes-at-mit-on-the-web-and-free.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/16/science/16stanford.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/19/world/europe/19iht-educlede19.html?_r=1

http://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2012/05/06/will-edx-put-harvard-and-mit-out-of-business/

http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/technology-and-learning/why-every-university-does-not-need-mooc

Summary

• Open Education starts to get mainstream

• Big investments are made • E.g. edX $60M, coursera $16M

• European universities?

What are all those abbreviations?2.

OCW part of the Open Movement

Open Content

Open Educational Resources

OCW

• OCW is only one type of

Open Educational Resource

(OER).

• OERs are only one type of

Open Content.

• We have much to share

with each other.

What is OpenCourseWare?

• High quality educational materials organized as courses

A course is package of educational materials starting a particular point in the knowledge spectrum, designed to lead to greater understanding of the issue or topic

• Openly licensed for distribution, re-use and modification, available to all on the internet

Over 260 institutions and organizations worldwide supporting open sharing in education

Number of courses from members

Oct/03 Apr/04 Oct/04 Apr/05 Oct/05 Apr/06 Oct/06 Apr/07 Oct/07 Apr/08 Oct/08 Apr/09 Oct/09 Apr/10 Oct/10 Apr/11 Oct/110

5000

10000

15000

20000

25000

511 550 760 995 1,3061,747

3,1883,845

4,634

6,023

7,591

10,550

15,88516,12316,574

18,135

21,056

What is a MOOC

• Massive • Open• Online• Course

MOOC!! image CC-BY-NC Gordon Lockhart:http://gbl55.wordpress.com/2011/03/08/cck11-man-this-mooc-is-something-else/

Open Moving Forward

Content Snippets Courses

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Comparing OCW to Open Education

• Syllabi, Lectures notes & Videos

• Sample homework & exams

• Textbooks

• No grade / certificate

• Complete learning experience

• Scored homework & exams

• Community /Discussion

• Grade / Certificate

OpenCourseWare Open Education

Importance of Open Education

Potential for…• Changing the nature of the educational experience• Smaller chunks, focused objectives• MOOCs, alternate credentialing

• Limit costs while improving quality• Student and institutional

• Reclaiming control• From publishers, from static content• Enabling flexibility to mix and match

Open is a means to an end:

Improved learning

Move of MIT

Residential Education

OpenCourseWare

MITxOpen Education

$20M

$30M

What is happening at TU Delft?2.

Characteristics of our OERs

Blackboard

Digital learning environment

Collegerama

lecture recordings

OpenCourseWare

Free accessible courses

iTunes U/Youtube Edu

Open Educational Resources

Context

(course)

No context

(single

resources)

internal

external

Motives to start OpenCourseWare

• Moral obligation • growing demand in higher education worldwide 2012-2025: 80 million!

• Quality• improve our materials, teaching methods

• World Class University• to be there with the other top universities

• Innovation• digital and on line education inevitable

Use and Re-use of OCW

• Choice of Study

• Stumble Courses

• Prepare International Students

• Use in Developing Countries

• Source of Reference

• Extracurricular education

• Online Education

Images CC-BU-NC-SA: http://ocw.tudelft.nl

TU Delft Policy (ICTO Plan 2011-2014)

Collaborative & Active Learning

Mobile

Next-generation Classroom

TU Delft distance & online

Education

Systems&

Resources

Face to face VirtualMassification

Personalisation

TU Delft aims to have a distance & online education programme operational within 4 years.

Collaborative & Active Learning

Mobile

Next-generation Classroom

TU Delft distance &

online Education

Systems&

Resources

Distance & Online Education

• Based on TU Delft OpenCourseWare• More focus on self-study and modularity

• Multimedia rich (video, webinars, etc)• Full certification (MSc degree)• 3 pilots selected: • Aerospace Engineering (LR)• Engineering & Policy Analysis (TBM)•Watermanagement (CiTG)

Move into Open Education

Residential Education

OpenCourseWare

Open Educatio

n

Online Masters

?

“In order for open education to reach its varied potentials, openness must become a core cultural value for each and every faculty member.” David Wiley

CC-BY: http://www.flickr.com/photos/21496790@N06/5065834411/

Questions

facebook.com/TuDelft.OpenCourseWare

nl.linkedin.com/in/ocwtudelft

twitter.com/TUDelftOCW

slideshare.net/DelftOpenEr

ocw.tudelft.nl