1. Open education is gaining mainstream popularity with large investments in MOOCs like edX and Coursera. European universities are also exploring open education models. 2. TU Delft aims to have a distance and online education program operational within 4 years based on their OpenCourseWare content. They have selected 3 pilot programs in engineering fields. 3. TU Delft views open education as an opportunity to improve learning through more flexible and modular content while also limiting costs. Their goal is to transition more fully from their residential program to incorporating open education.

1. From OpenCourseWare to
Online Education
14-5-2012 Willem van Valkenburg & Anka Mulder
Delft
University of
Technology
Challenge the future

2. Agenda
•To inform you:
• What is happening around the world?
• What are all those abbreviations?
• What is happening at TU Delft?
• Who pays for this?
•To ask from you:
• Suggestions, ideas about pitfalls
•Questions

3. 1. What is happening
around the world?

4. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/04/us/auditing-classes-at-mit-on-the-web-and-free.html

5. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/16/science/16stanford.html

6. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/19/world/europe/19iht-educlede19.html?_r=1

7. http://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2012/05/06/will-edx-put-harvard-and-mit-out-of-business/

8. http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/technology-and-learning/why-every-university-does-not-need-mooc

9. Summary
•Open Education starts to get mainstream
•Big investments are made
• E.g. edX $60M, coursera $16M
•European universities?

10. 2. What are all those
abbreviations?

11. OCW part of the Open Movement
• OCW is only one type of Open
Open Content Educational Resource (OER).
Open • OERs are only one type of Open
Educational Content.
Resources
• We have much to share with
OCW each other.

12. What is OpenCourseWare?
•High quality educational materials organized
as courses
A course is package of educational materials starting a
particular point in the knowledge spectrum, designed to
lead to greater understanding of the issue or topic
•Openly licensed for distribution, re-use and
modification, available to all on the internet

13. Over 260 institutions and organizations
worldwide supporting open sharing in education

14. Number of courses from members
25000
21,056
20000
18,135
16,574
15,885 16,123
15000
10,550
10000
7,591
6,023
5000
4,634
3,845
3,188
1,747
995 1,306
511 550 760
0

15. What is a MOOC
•Massive
•Open
•Online
•Course
MOOC!! image CC-BY-NC Gordon Lockhart:
http://gbl55.wordpress.com/2011/03/08/cck11-man-this-mooc-is-something-else/

16. 16
OCL Logo Credits: Timothy Valentine & Leo Reynolds CC-BY-NC-SA
Content
Open Moving Forward
Snippets
Courses

17. Comparing OCW to Open Education
OpenCourseWare Open Education
• Syllabi, Lectures notes & • Complete learning
Videos experience
• Sample homework & • Scored homework &
exams exams
• Textbooks • Community /Discussion
• No grade / certificate • Grade / Certificate

18. Importance of Open Education
Open is a means to an end:
Potential for… Improved learning
• Changing the nature of the educational experience
• Smaller chunks, focused objectives
• MOOCs, alternate credentialing
• Limit costs while improving quality
• Student and institutional
• Reclaiming control
• From publishers, from static content
• Enabling flexibility to mix and match

19. Move of MIT
Residential $20M OpenCourse
Education Ware
$30M
MITx
Open Education

20. 2. What is happening
at TU Delft?

21. Characteristics of our OERs
internal
Blackboard Collegerama
Digital learning environment lecture recordings
Context No context
(course) OpenCourseWare iTunes U/Youtube Edu (single resources)
Free accessible courses Open Educational Resources
external

22. Motives to start OpenCourseWare
•Moral obligation
• growing demand in higher education
worldwide 2012-2025: 80 million!
•Quality
• improve our materials, teaching methods
• World Class University
• to be there with the other top universities
•Innovation
• digital and on line education inevitable

23. Use and Re-use of OCW
•Choice of Study
•Stumble Courses
•Prepare International Students
•Use in Developing Countries
•Source of Reference
•Extracurricular education
•Online Education
Images CC-BU-NC-SA: http://ocw.tudelft.nl

24. TU Delft Policy (ICTO Plan 2011-2014)
Personalisation
Collaborative &
Mobile
Active Learning
Systems
&
Resources
TU Delft distance
Next-generation
& online
Classroom
Education
Massification
Face to face Virtual

25. Collaborative &
Mobile
Active Learning
Systems
&
Resources
TU Delft
Next-generation
distance &
Classroom
online Education
TU Delft aims to have a
distance & online education
programme operational
within 4 years.

26. Distance & Online Education
•Based on TU Delft OpenCourseWare
•More focus on self-study and modularity
•Multimedia rich (video, webinars, etc)
•Full certification (MSc degree)
•3 pilots selected:
• Aerospace Engineering (LR)
• Engineering & Policy Analysis (TBM)
• Watermanagement (CiTG)

27. Move into Open Education
Residential OpenCourse
Education Ware
?
Online Open
Masters Education

28. “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

29. Questions
CC-BY: http://www.flickr.com/photos/21496790@N06/5065834411/

30. facebook.com/TuDelft.OpenCourseWare
nl.linkedin.com/in/ocwtudelft
twitter.com/TUDelftOCW
slideshare.net/DelftOpenEr
ocw.tudelft.nl