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Nice to Meet You!

Willem van Valkenburg

TU Delft | Online Learning

Manager Production & Delivery | Board Member OEC

Martijn Ouwehand

TU Delft | Online Learning

Account manager | Product Manager OpenCourseWare | Product

Manager Blended Learning

ABOUT TU DELFT ONLINE LEARNINGBackground

Delft University of Technology

16 Bachelor programmes34 Master programmes

8 Faculties1 Graduate School

20 000 Students

TU Delft Mission

Our mission is to:

• explore the frontiers of the engineering sciences

• solve societal challenges

• support a competitive and sustainable economy

through

• excellent creative research

• science, engineering and design in one approach

• excellent education

• valorisation, spin through, spin out

“Open and online

education allows people

from around the world

access to the top education

of TU Delft. It enables

everybody who wants to

develop themselves and

accommodates the

increasing number of

students seeking higher

education. TU Delft is

dedicated to deliver

world class education

to everyone.”

Drs. Anka Mulder. Vice President Education TU Delft

Massive Open Online Courses

(MOOCs)

Open Course Ware (OCW)

Online Distance Education (ODE)

Campus Education

Open & Online portfolio

OpenCourseWare (OCW)• Course Materials• Free• Big Exposure, Worldwide audience• Both Bachelor and Master level• No interaction with faculty• No accredited certificate

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)• Learning Activities & Course Materials• Free• Enrolled students only, massive numbers• Bachelors level• Certificate of Completion

Online Distance Education• Learning Activities & Course Materials• Paid enrollment• Enrolled students only, limited numbers• Accredited Course Certificate• Full Master Degree

On Campus Education• Direct access to education• Research facilities• World Class Library• Student social tissue• Student projects

MOOC numbers

INSTITUTIONAL MOTIVESWhy?

Why do Universities participate in

Open Education?

Why? Philosophical

• Expanding access to education & knowledge

• Building on others’ ideas

• Creating possibilities for new educational systems

• Maximizing educational euros

Why? Institutional benefits

Showcasing existing courses and educational quality

• transparency = respect & trust

• good public relations

Why? Institutional benefits

• Strengthen teaching and learning outcomes

• Provide examples of excellence for faculty and students

• Professional development

• Supports student learning

• Can lead to partnerships, collaborations, recognition

Why? Outreach benefits

• Bridge between secondary and higher education

• Skill and knowledge courses available to prepare students for higher education

• Assist disadvantaged learners and those returning to education

• Insure good fit between student and institution

Why? Outreach benefits

• Workforce development

• Updating skills

• Retraining sectors that are downsizing or becoming dated

• Pathways to short courses or certificates

Why? Innovation

• Current global higher ed system can’t reach everyone who wants an education.

• Cost and access barriers to current system.

• Systems don’t serve everyone equally well.

UNESCO's world conference on Higher Education projects that post-

secondary education will need to provide places for an additional 98 million

learners over the next 15 years. Stated differently, this would require

"require more than four major universities (30,000 students) to open every

week for the next fifteen years". (Daniel 2011.)

FROM THEORY TO PRACTICEHow

Inside Out Outside in

Educational Resources/OCW

MOOC /Open Education

Relate Open Education to Goals

Inside Out Outside in

Educational Resources/OCW

Open Sharing Your Resources

Reuse/Revise/Remix Existing Resources

MOOC /Open Education

Offer MOOCs Integrate/Reuse/Revise existing MOOCs

Relate Open Education to Goals

Improving quality

active learning

international orientation

> differentiation in offerings

> quality

> study culture,Quality of education

> effectivityIn education

> flexibility for life long learners

> quality of lecturer

> trajectories

improve transfer

support excellencyOER/MOOC for

informing/selection

Alternatives likeflipped classroomwith OER/MOOC

use cMOOCsReuse OER/

MOOC

OER/MOOC improvesvisibility

> blended learningwith OER/MOOC

A B

Legend: A contributes to B

Take MOOC forprofessionalization

Data MOOCsas source for

Learning Analytics

Improving efficiency

A B

Legend: A contributes to B> efficiency

> yield < costs

Improve selection> Possibilities inoffer to student

> efficienteducation process

> students

< costs/student

Reuse OER/MOOC assupplementary materials

for students

Alternatives likeflipped classroom

OER/MOOC for marketing

OER/MOOC forinforming/selection

> efficient production process

Reuse OER/MOOC instead ofdevelopment from scratch

Delft University of Technology

Our mission is to:

• explore the frontiers of the

engineering sciences

• solve societal challenges

• support a competitive and

sustainable economy

Through

• Open Education:

• OER

• OCW

• MOOC

• Online/ProfEd courses

Exercise (25 min)

1. Define the mission and goals of your institution

2. How could Open Education support this mission/those goals?

• Forms of Open education

• Relation to institutional motives

Exercise (10 min)

1. Write down which concerns you’ve heard or expect

2. Think of counter arguments

3. Plenary discussion

Frequently Cited concerns

• Attendance “My students won’t come to class if the lectures are online”

• Cost

• Drain on Faculty Time

• Erosion of Distance Education Revenue

• Faculty Resistance to Sharing

• Intellectual Property

• Undermining Potential Publication for Profit

Counter arguments“What is good enough for your own students,

should be good enough for the rest of the world”

“Publicly funded resources should be openly licensed resources”

“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

HOW TO ORGANIZE?How?

Exercise (10 min)

1. What kind of expertise is needed?

Elements of support

•Vision/strategic

• Institution

• Pedagogy

•Operational

• Copyrights/licensing

• pedagogy

GETTING IT RUNNINGHow?

Strategies

•Bottom Up: Individual initiatives

• Start small

•Find your champions

•Celebrate successes

Advocates and allies

• Both Top AND Bottom

• Education support

• Technical support

• Marketing

• Strategy institution

Exercise (10 min)

1. Make a list of allies, advocates at your university that can form a

group to advance Open Education: staff, faculty, administrators

2. Which arguments for Open Education would they be sensitive to?

SUPPORTWho to call?

Toolkit

• What are the most significant aspects of your institution’s mission and

culture?

• What are your institution’s explicit short and long-term goals?

• What are your institution’s explicit concerns?

• What OCW-relevant processes does your institution already have in place?

• What is likely to be the most effective scope of an OCW project at your

institution?

• What are likely to be the “pain points” for your institution?

Support

• Action Labs/presentations:

• (open) licensing MOOCs Wednesday, 14:00, Break out Room 1 (Lynx)

• Open Education Information Centre Friday 14:00, Main Hall

• Everything you wanted to know about MOOCs Friday 10:30, Break out Room 3 (Den)

• Open Education Professional Directory http://www.oeconsortium.org/directory/

• Open Education Consortium Toolkit http://www.oeconsortium.org/resources/toolkits/

• Lumen Learning http://lumenlearning.com