Willem van Valkenburg is the coordinator of the TU Delft Open Education team and project leader for an EU project on open courseware in European higher education. He discusses MOOCs and DelftX, TU Delft's participation in the EdX consortium. MOOCs are massive open online courses that are open to unlimited participants, offer online interactions, and provide certificates of completion. DelftX will offer four courses in its first year, including introductions to water treatment and aerospace engineering, through the EdX platform.

1. DelftX
ir. W.F. van Valkenburg
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2. 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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3. Agenda
1. MOOCs
2. DelftX
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4. MOOCs
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5. What is a MOOC
•Massive
•Open
•Online
•Course
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6. Massive
• Stanford University – Artificial Intelligence course
• 160,000 students
• MIT – Circuits and Electronics course
• 120,000 students
• Indiana – Instructional Ideas and Technology Tools for
Online Success
• 4,000 students
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7. 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
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8. 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
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9. 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.
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10. Kind of MOOCs
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13. Comparing
OPEN
TRADITIONAL COURSE OPEN EDUCATION ONLINE EDUCATION
WARE
ACCESS Tuition fee Open Open Tuition fee
STUDENT Yes, mostly No Yes, online learning Yes, online learning
INTERACTION offline platform & social platform & social
media media
INTERACTION Yes No Yes, online learning Yes, online learning
platform & social platform & social
WITH media media
LECTURERS
EXAMS Yes Yes, but Yes, online Yes, online and on
self testing campus
CERTIFICATES Yes, No Yes, non accredited Yes, accredited
accredited
DIPLOMA Yes, No No Yes, accredited
accredited
Translated from http://www.e-learn.nl/2012/07/06/onderwijs-in-de-online-wereld
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14. DelftX
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15. 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.
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16. Online and Campus Education
• Learning Activities & Course Materials
• Free
• Enrolled students only, massive numbers
• Bachelors Level
• Certificate of Completion
Massive Open
Online Courses
(MOOCs)
• Course Materials
Open • Free
Campus Course • Big Exposure, Worldwide audience
Education Ware • Both Bachelor and Master level
(OCW) • No interaction with faculty
• No accredited certificate
• On-campus Education
• Top-class education and research facilities
• World famous university library Online Distance
Education • Learning Activities & Course Materials
• Active student societies
• Great opportunities to participate in special • Paid enrollment
student projects • Enrolled students only, limited numbers
• Master level
• Accredited Course Certificate
• Full Master Degree
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17. 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
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18. 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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20. Questions
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