20110311 TU Delft OCW for SCORE

Open Educational Resources Why do we give away our content? Willem van Valkenburg, Director TU Delft OpenCourseWare Delft University of Technology 2011

Who am I?
Willem van Valkenburg
Director TU Delft OpenCourseWare
Manager of TU Delft VLE (Blackboard)
Projectleader TU Delft Mobile
http://twitter.com/wfvanvalkenburg
http://www.e-learn.nl
http://nl.linkedin.com/in/wfvanvalkenburg
Presentation will be available on http://slideshare.net/wfvanvalkenburg

What are OERs and OpenCourseWare?
Results
Motives
The future

OCW part of the Open Movement
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.
Open Content Open Educational Resources OCW

What is OCW?
An OpenCourseWare is a free and open digital publication of high quality educational materials , organized as courses for faculty, students, and self-learners throughout the world.
An ocw is a collection of high-quality learning materials presented in the form of courses
An ocw is not a distance-learning initiative: there are no degrees granted and in most cases no student/faculty interactions
OCW materials are there for the taking and for transformation.

to advance formal and informal learning through the worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality education materials organized as courses.
Mission

• ~170 live OCW sites • ~14.000 courses http://ocwconsortium.org Advancing formal and informal learning through the worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality education materials organized as courses.

2. Results of Delft

ICT in education: TU Delft

TU Delft Open Content
OpenCourseWare view of our education
OER within the context of a course
Collegerama video recording (Mediasite)
Lecture slides
Literature
Assignments
Exams
Solutions and answers
iTunes U / Youtube Edu Mainly focused on marketing OER without context
Collegerama video recording (Mediasite)/ Flash Lectures
Engineering Challenges
Campus life & Student Projects

OCW.TUDelft.nl

Water management Dr.ir. Jasper Verberk – Collegerama http://ocw.tudelft.nl/about-opencourseware/ocw-seminar/
Challenges
Water Management OpenCourseWare
Further Developments
Courses

Courses Delft design guide

Delftse Leerlijn Bridging the gap

Usage until now
>200k visits since the start
1 milion pageviews
Average 5 pages per visit that takes more than 3 minutes
Visitors from all over the world. Top 5:
Netherlands
US
India
China
UK
Visitors mainly arrive via referring sites:
ocwconsortium.org, education-portal.com, core.org.cn, wikipedia.org, Core77.com

Results
Quality of educational resources have improved
More focus and attention for the quality of education
TU Delft national and international recognized for our OCW
Increase in new students and PhD’s
Grant from Ministry of Economic Affairs for a project with ITB Bandung
Nuffic grants for projects with South Africa and Mozambique
SURF (Dutch JISC) starts with a national programme for OER/OCW
TU Delft (Anka Mulder) board-member of the OCW Consortium

3. Motives

Context of HE: Internationalisation as a condition for excellence International competition to get the best students, best education, best research Bridging the gap-problems causes increased heterogeneity Student as customer : higher expectations Increase in number of students versus decrease in government funding Opportunities of the digital age

From a university perspective
Core tasks university is to deliver know-how and building knowledge networks in an international context.
Way to improve quality of education
Reputation/ branding
Irreversible trend

From a faculty perspective
Reputation /Exposure/Visibility
Additional contribution to knowledge networks
Attracting new students and researchers
Easy access (material is part of a joint degree)
Preparation for future students
Opening up for new connections worldwide
Investing in future learning and education methods/basis for blended learning.

What do faculty member say? “ EPA wants to be recognized as an international education program. With OCW we can! ” Engineering & Policy Analysis Dr. Ir. B. Enserink Watermanagement Dr. Ir. J.Q.J.C. Verberk “ Since we publish our courses on OCW, we see an increase in the number of international PhD students”

“ The participatory learning I experienced in TU Delft OpenCourseWare I never experienced before”
The students “ TU Delft content is almost as good as MIT, if not better” Erasmus Mundus student Egeruoh Chigoziri

4. The future

Changes in Sources of Information
Middle Ages
Source of information = Professor
Printing Press
Source of information = University
Digital Age
Source of information = Internet

Implications for the institution?
We are no longer THE source of information
What does a university have to offer?
Content: information
Context: explanation, interpretation of information
Feedback: examinations, assessment
Reputation
Accredited diploma
Social network

TU Delft: There were also unexpected benefits to Open Access
Video lectures :
Big success within the university
and made it possible to start with iTunesU
OCW :
Proved to be a stepping stone for bridging the gap: pre university education-university, college-university, international students
Gives access to big HE innovation network: US, EU, Africa, China, Japan ..

Where do we go from here ?
General:
TU Delft policy: not only open access of educational materials:
All dissertations (full text);
Multi-media
Open Access publishing in journals
More materials are available in digital and new formats (games, VodCast). Tremendous growth in the use of streaming video. How do we make optimal uses of these developments?

Where do we go from here ?
Challenges
Sustainability: how to create (financial) incentives for staff to publish educational materials?
Different motives: how to create a business model when departments have different motives to participate? Examples of motives :
Drinking water: more international students, OCW will be integrated in the blended learning modules
Nanoscience: reputation, more master students
Industrial Design: Open source design
Micro Electronics: collaboration with industries (sponsorships)

“ 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

March 10, 2011 [email_address] twitter.com/wfvanvalkenburg slideshare.net/wfvanvalkenburg OCW.tudelft.nl

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