08-04-2023

Challenge the future

DelftUniversity ofTechnology

From OpenCourseWare to Online Education

ir. Willem van Valkenburg

Willem van Valkenburg

Coordinator TU Delft Open Education Team

Assistant to the President of the OpenCourseWare Consortium

Projectleader EU-project OCW in the European HE context

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Agenda

• What are all those abbreviations?

• What is happening at TU Delft?

• Questions & Discussion

What are all those abbreviations?2.

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Open?• Free• Shared• Choices• Ability to adapt• Cost effective• Ability to tailor & build

your own• Creative Commons• Freedom of info and

use

• Quality assurance• Varied availability by

disciplines• Available to anybody• Digital• Often multimedia• Accessibility—more

accessible to some and less to others

CC-BY Brandon Muramatsu: http://www.slideshare.net/bmuramatsu/oex

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

What is a MOOC

•Massive •Open•Online•Course

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

Open

• Everybody can participate • But more important, there are many ways to participate:• ‘open’ means being able to watch• ‘open’ means being able to participate at your own level• ‘open’ means participating publicly, so other can watch

Source: http://www.slideshare.net/Downes/education-as-platformImage CC-BY-NC-SA: http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcwathieu/2412755417/

Online

• Means that it is connective,interactive

• You can’t put a MOOC on a DVD• The MOOC is the process• It is a process that is greatly aided by being online:•Many tasks are automated, scaffolded•Much greater communicative capacity•More access to data, calculations

Source: http://www.slideshare.net/Downes/education-as-platformImage CC-BY-NC-SA: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gforsythe/5552385806/

Experiences from the AI-class• 23,000 students passed the online course (253 got perfect

scores)

• Professor Thrun has taught more students the subject than all of the rest of the computer science professors in the world.

• The 23,000 who passed the course represent more students than most faculty will teach in their career.

• Out of the 200 Stanford students attending the traditional course, only 41 were in class at the end of the course.

• The other 159 opted for the online asynchronous presentation.

• 410 online students outperformed the top Stanford student!

• Students themselves translated the class for free from English into 44 languages.

• The on-campus passing rate was the highest ever. CC-BY-NC-SA Zaid Ali Alsagoff: http://www.slideshare.net/zaid/dna-of-a-21st-century-educator-v2

Open Moving Forward

Content

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Courses

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What is Open Education?

Ecosystem of different Open Initiatives:

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

Comparing

TRADITIONAL

OPEN COURSE WARE

OPEN EDUCATION ONLINE EDUCATION

ACCESS Tuition fee Open Open

Tuition fee

STUDENT INTERACTION

Yes, mostly offline

No Yes, online learning platform & social media

Yes, online learning platform & social media

INTERACTION

WITH LECTURERS

Yes No Yes, online learning platform & social media

Yes, online learning platform & social media

EXAMS Yes Yes, but self testing

Yes, online Yes, online and on campus

CERTIFICATES Yes, accredited

No Yes, non accredited Yes, accredited

DIPLOMA Yes, accredited

No No Yes, accredited

Translated from http://www.e-learn.nl/2012/07/06/onderwijs-in-de-online-wereld

What is happening at TU Delft?3.

Open Education | open.tudelft.nl/education

Online and Campus Education

Massive Open Online Courses

(MOOCs)

Open Course Ware (OCW)

Online Distance Education

Campus Education

• Learning Activities & Course Materials

• Free• Enrolled students only, massive

numbers• Bachelors Level• Certificate of Completion

• Course Materials• Free• Big Exposure, Worldwide

audience• Both Bachelor and Master

level• No interaction with faculty• No accredited certificate

• Learning Activities & Course Materials

• Paid enrollment• Enrolled students only, limited

numbers• Master level• Accredited Course Certificate• Full Master Degree

• On-campus Education• Top-class education and research

facilities• World famous university library• Active student societies• Great opportunities to participate in

special student projects

Open Education | open.tudelft.nl/education

OpenCourseWare

• Course Materials including Collegerama• More than 100 courses online• Big Exposure, Worldwide audience• Both Bachelor and Master level (Dutch and English)

• No interaction with faculty• No accredited certificate• Focus on use and re-use

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-BY-NC-SA: http://ocw.tudelft.nl

OpenStudy Badges

Distance & Online Education

•Enrolled students only, limited numbers•Accredited Course Certificate•Full Master Degree• Multimedia rich (video, webinars, etc)• Full certification (MSc degree)• 3 pilots selected: • Aerospace Engineering (LR)• Engineering & Policy Analysis (TBM)•Watermanagement (CiTG)

TU Delft joins EdX

Why MOOCs?

• Delft is a strong advocate of Open Education

• We believe the next step for education is online

• MOOCs are an interesting step into this direction.

Why EdX?

• Consortium of top universities• Focus on improving campus education• It is not-for-profit• It has a focus on Open• Focus on research of innovation in education

DelftX Courses

In the academic year 2013-2014 DelftX will offer 4 courses:

• Fall 2013• Prof Jules van Lier - Introduction to water treatment • Dr Arno Smets - Solar Energy

• Spring 2014• Prof Jacco Hoekstra - Introduction to Aerospace Engineering

• The fourth course is to be announced.

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Questions

open.tudelft.nl