Presentation for the OpenEd Conference on November 8th 2013 in Park City. The presentation is about EdX and openness.

1. Pushing EdX to be Open
Willem van Valkenburg
Delft University of Technology
@wfvanvalkenburg
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2. Willem van Valkenburg
Coordinator
TU Delft Open Education Team
Board member of the
OpenCourseWare Consortium
Projectleader EU-project
OCW in the European HE context
twitter.com/wfvanvalkenburg
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slideshare.net/wfvanvalkenburg

3. Please attribute
TU Delft / Willem van Valkenburg
http://willemvanvalkenburg.nl
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4. Agenda
•What is Open?
•Delft and Open
•Edx and Open
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5. CC BY Tinou Bao
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6. CC-BY Alan Levine:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cogdog/7155294657/in/pool-openandclosed
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7. • Free to Reuse
• Free to Revise
• Free to Remix
• Free to Redistribute
David Wiley 4Rs framework: http://www.opencontent.org/definition/
Open By Sunshine Connelly. Original
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8. Image is still from the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLiNzrIubF0
CC-BY TU Delft
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9. open.tudelft.nl
Education
• OpenCourseWare
• DelftX
• iTunesU
Research
• Open Data
• Open Access
• Open Journals
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ICT
• Open Source
Software
• Open API

10. Online and Campus Education
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Learning Activities & Course Materials
Free
Enrolled students only, massive numbers
Bachelors Level
Certificate of Completion
Massive Open
Online Courses
(MOOCs)
Open
Course
Ware
(OCW)
Campus
Education
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On-campus Education
Top-class education and research facilities
World famous university library
Active student societies
Great opportunities to participate in special
student projects
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Online Distance
Education
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Course Materials
Free
Big Exposure, Worldwide audience
Both Bachelor and Master level
No interaction with faculty
No accredited certificate
Learning Activities & Course Materials
Paid enrollment
Enrolled students only, limited numbers
Master level
Accredited Course Certificate
Full Master Degree

11. OpenCourseWare
•Started in 2007
•More than 120 courses online
•Daily visits > 800
•Courses from Bachelor and Master
Source: OpenCourseWare Consortium: www.ocwconsortium.org
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12. DelftX Courses
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13. DelftX MOOCs with
Open License
•The courses are licensed under a Creative
Commons License CC-BY-NC-SA.
•Videos on Youtube have CC-BY license.
•Videos also available as download in multiple
formats (360p, 720p, 1080p).
•Slides are made available as PDF. (ppt are too big)
•Textbook is copyright restricted.
•Questions are not downloadable (yet).
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14. Why EdX?
•Consortium of top universities
•Focus on improving campus education
•It is not-for-profit
•Focus on research of innovation in education
•It has a focus on Open
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16. EdX and Open
•Open Source
•Open Content
•Open Standards
Image: CC-BY Marc Wathieu:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcwathieu/8559628228/
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17. OPEN SOURCE → HIGHLIGHTS
•What Have We Open Sourced?
• edX’s Learning Management System (LMS);
• Studio, a course authoring tool;
• XBlock, an API for integrating interactive
learning objects;
• machine grading API’s;
• Analytics framework, edinsights.
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18. OPEN SOURCE → HIGHLIGHTS
• The License Itself
• Our platform is released under the Affero General
Public License (AGPL) version 3
• Any modifications or derivative works need to be
made available under the same license
• Contributions back to edX require a contributor
agreement to be signed that gives us the ability
to relicense (including commercially)
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19. OPEN SOURCE → HIGHLIGHTS
•How to Get Involved
•Visit http://code.edx.org/ and join
edX-code mailing list (linked from
above site)
•Initiative from David Glance:
http://openedxdev.wordpress.com/
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20. Who joined EdX with development?
EdX Universities
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21. Who is using Open.EdX?
Queen Rania Foundation for Education and Development
Edraak platform for Arabic MOOCs
There are more:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/edx-code/aAPPfQ_v7AY/t_h0F40DlF0J
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22. Open Content in EdX
•TU Delft is the first and only one
to do this.
•Currently 4 courses announced.
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23. Open Standards
•“The problem with open standards is that
there are so many of them.”
•University of Queensland has contributed
an integration with Learning Tools
Interoperability (LTI)
https://www.edx.org/alert/edx-builds-community-developers/944
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24. What is next?
•Technically support Open Content.
•Also courses from other universities with
an open license.
•Extending support for open standards.
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25. open.tudelft.nl
code.edx.org
data.edx.org
engineering.edx.org
slideshare.net/wfvanvalkenburg
twitter.com/DelftX
twitter.com/wfvanvalkenburg
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