This document provides an overview of TU Delft's open and online education initiatives. It discusses why universities participate in open education, including expanding access to knowledge, strengthening teaching and learning, and supporting innovation. It outlines TU Delft's open education portfolio, including open courseware, MOOCs, and online distance education programs. The document addresses concerns about open education and provides counterarguments. It also provides guidance on organizing open education initiatives, including identifying needed expertise, champions, and support structures. Exercises encourage attendees to relate open education to their own institution's mission and identify potential advocates.

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TU Delft Online Learning @ Open Education Global Conference
CREATING SUPPORT FOR OPEN ED.
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2. 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

3. ABOUT TU DELFT ONLINE LEARNING
Background

4. Delft University of Technology
16 Bachelor programmes
34 Master programmes
8 Faculties
1 Graduate School
20 000 Students

5. 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

6. “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

7. 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

8. MOOC numbers

9. INSTITUTIONAL MOTIVES
Why?

10. Why do Universities participate in
Open Education?

11. Why? Philosophical
• Expanding access to education & knowledge
• Building on others’ ideas
• Creating possibilities for new educational systems
• Maximizing educational euros

12. Why? Institutional benefits
Showcasing existing courses and educational quality
• transparency = respect & trust
• good public relations

13. 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

14. 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

15. Why? Outreach benefits
• Workforce development
• Updating skills
• Retraining sectors that are downsizing or becoming dated
• Pathways to short courses or certificates

16. 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.)

17. FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE
How

18. Inside Out Outside in
Educational
Resources/OCW
MOOC /
Open Education
Relate Open Education to Goals

19. 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

20. Improving quality
active learning
international orientation
> differentiation in offerings
> quality
> study culture,
Quality of education
> effectivity
In education
> flexibility for
life long learners
> quality of lecturer
> trajectories
improve transfer
support excellency
OER/MOOC for
informing/selection
Alternatives like
flipped classroom
with OER/MOOC
use cMOOCs
Reuse OER/
MOOC
OER/MOOC improves
visibility
> blended learning
with OER/MOOC
A B
Legend: A contributes to B
Take MOOC for
professionalization
Data MOOCs
as source for
Learning Analytics

21. Improving efficiency
A B
Legend: A contributes to B
> efficiency
> yield < costs
Improve selection
> Possibilities in
offer to student
> efficient
education process
> students
< costs/
student
Reuse OER/MOOC as
supplementary materials
for students
Alternatives like
flipped classroom
OER/MOOC
for marketing
OER/MOOC for
informing/selection
> efficient
production process
Reuse OER/MOOC instead of
development from scratch

22. 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

23. 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

24. Exercise (10 min)
1. Write down which concerns you’ve heard or expect
2. Think of counter arguments
3. Plenary discussion

25. 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

26. 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”

27. “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

28. HOW TO ORGANIZE?
How?

29. Exercise (10 min)
1. What kind of expertise is needed?

30. Elements of support
•Vision/strategic
• Institution
• Pedagogy
•Operational
• Copyrights/licensing
• pedagogy

31. GETTING IT RUNNING
How?

32. Strategies
•Bottom Up: Individual initiatives
• Start small
•Find your champions
•Celebrate successes

33. Advocates and allies
• Both Top AND Bottom
• Education support
• Technical support
• Marketing
• Strategy institution

34. 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?

35. SUPPORT
Who to call?

36. 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?

37. 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