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Delft University of TechnologyOpening up our Content

Educational Repository Network, Sept 17th 2009

Willem van ValkenburgE-learning consultant, ICT DepartmentBlog: www.e-learn.nlTwitter: twitter.com/wfvanvalkenburg

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Agenda

• Delft University of Technology• Opening Up our Research• Opening Up our Education

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A few words about TU Delft

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TU Delft - Characteristics

• Excellent (international) ratings

• Driven by demands of society

• Focussed multi-disciplinary research themes

• High quality educational programes, with a focus on ICT in education

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TU Delft: Basic Data 2009

• Faculties: 8• Bachelor programmes: 14• Master programmes: 41• Total number of students: 16,000• International students: 3,000• Scientific staff: 2,600 • Number of PhD-theses per year: 250

• Focal Multi-disciplinary Research Programs: Energy, Health, Infrastructures, Environment.

TU Delft

www.tudelft.nl

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Core tasks of the university is to deliver know-how and building knowledge networks in an international context.

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Research Repository

• TU Delft Repository (start 2005)• http://repository.tudelft.nl• 12,600 full text publications• Dissertations (3,850)• Lectures (1,100)• Articles (4,200)• Student theses (1,100)• Reports (1,850)• Patents (250)

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Advantages Repository TU Delft

• Improve access to academic work. • Raises the profile of academic work.• Act of international solidarity.• Counterweight against publishers.• Guarantees the durability of data files.• Reinforce university’s image as a centre of

knowledge.

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Advantages Repository Scientists

• Priority claim• Visibility output (full text in e.g. Google)• Accessible worldwide• Sustainable e-archive • Increase citations/downloads

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Access to TU Delft Research

• DARE.net• Royal Library (KB)• OAISTER (Open Access Repositories)• Google/ Google Scholar

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Opening Up our Education• Share our courses via OpenCourseWare• Share our course content via OAI-PMH• Share our multimedia via our multimedia

portal

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Delft OpeCourseWare: Why start?• University:

• Reputation• Open academic community: open knowlege organisation in

world-wide networks. • Inevitable trend • Bundling of faculty initiatives: bringing it all together.

• Specialism: • Exposure: Show what you can do, international reputation,

being part of international knowledge networks• Serve the group of Life Long Learners• Attract new masters students: show what we have• Positive impact on recruiting PhD’s• The help with the combined educational programs• Positive impact on the quality of educational resources• Reputation of the teaching staff

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Architecture

HiveOCWBlackboard

Lorenet.nl

OAI-PMH

OCWFinder.org

RSSCourseBase

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OAI-PMH

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OCW Consortium• 100 live sites with ~9,000 courses

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Thank You for Your Time

OCW.TUDelft.nl

Repository.TUDelft.nl