MOOCs & Accessibility
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MOOCs & Accessibility
Janine Kiers
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13-nu Product Manager MOOCs
00-03 Capacity Development, Filipijnen
Janine Kiers
04-12 Innovation in industry & education
97-00 Project Manager, DSM Biologics
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• Reach• Research• Residential
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Next GenerationInfrastructures 2
Drinking Water Treatment
FunctionalProgramming
Delft DesignApproach
Technology forBioproducts
Solving Complex Problems
ResponsibleInnovation
Treatment of Urban Sewage
Introduction toWater & Climate
Introduction toSolar Energy
AeronauticalEngineering
Credit Risk Management
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Latest products
Pre-University Calculus
Pre-university courses
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Professional Education
Latest products
Economics of Cybersecurity
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Resulting from the MOOC-tender:
New MOOCs per 2015
Economics of Information Security
Physical Transport Phenomena
Topology for Condensed Matter: UntyingQuantum Knots
Framing
Take your Data Analysis to the MAX with Excel
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Sneak preview
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Platform: EdX
• Consortium of top universities
• Focus on improving campus education
• It is not-for-profit
• Focus is on Open• Research for Educational Innovation
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Consortium• Founders• Contributors• Members
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Open• Anyone with an internet connection
• Course materials are open
• Open source platform
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Creative Commons license
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Use a MOOC• Course Content
Resources: Text, audio, video, presentations
• Teaching EffortActions: Human Contribution by teachers, instructors, trainers, developers
• Educational ServicesProcesses: tutoring, advice, meetings, communities, assessment
Contact TU Delft
Contact TU Delft
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New developments edX platformEdX Product Roadmap (public)https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/display/PROD/Product+Roadmap
– Teaching & Learning Tools– Mobile– Open edx and platform investments– Student experience on edx.org– Professional Education– Data & Analytics
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New developments edX platformEdX Product Roadmap (public)– Teaching & Learning Tools– Mobile– Open edx and platform investments– Student experience on edx.org– Professional Education– Data & Analytics
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Teaching & Learning ToolsBetter student experience: New forum features
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Teaching & Learning ToolsFaster building: Easier publishing from studio
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Teaching & Learning Tools• Formation of cohorts• Group work• Peer Review
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edX MobileMOOC on your mobile phone
By Victorgrigas (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 ]
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• Open community
• More structured– Bug list
– Back log
– Documentation
Open edX
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• Student experience
Edx.org
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• ProfEd on edX-website– UniversityX course on edX-website
• “White Label” courses– Own brand and label on “university website” run
on edX
ProfEd
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Data: Geographic distributionBased on IP-address last log in
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Data: Student behaviourWeekly student interaction with course material
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Use MOOCs on-campusSolar EnergyMOOC material is preparation for the more in depth sessions with the teacher and lab experiments
Water TreatmentMOOC material partly replaces lectures, run on Blackboard
Solving Complex ProblemsReverse evolution: 1. On-campus, 2. Blended, 3. MOOC
Fundamentals of water treatmentOnline course is follow up of the MOOC, for the best students, on edge.edx & Bb
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Water & ClimateMOOC material used in on-campus course, run on Bb
Functional ProgrammingFinishing the MOOC required TU Delft course. More a split classroom than a flipped classroom.
Aeronautical Engineering MOOC material is optional, as extra course material for TU Delft course. Unofficial blended course.
Credit Risk ManagementMOOC will be a relevant part of the on-campus course, on edX. Blended.
Use MOOCs on-campus
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Overall• On-campus-user-friendly• Continuous development• Open source code• Start-up atmosphere• Searching for sustainable business model• Access to experience of partners
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Certificates• Honor code• ID verified• Professional Education• X-series
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Disruptive Development
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Disruptive Development
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CC-BY TU Delft / Mark van Huystee
Disruptive Development
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CC-BY TU Delft / Mark van Huystee
Disruptive Development
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Disruptive Development
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CC-BY TU Delft / Mark van Huystee
Disruptive Development
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CC-BY TU Delft / Mark van Huystee
Disruptive Development..
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Cheap cars -> jobs eliminated, but productivity of driver augmented: serve more customers, faster & over greater distances -> economic gain shared by workers, consumers & capital owners.
The Economist, October 4, 2014
Special report on Technology & world economy
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“47% of employment in America is at high risk of being automated away over the next decade or two” – can human workers upgrade their skills fast enough?