1. DelftX MOOCs
ir. W.F. van Valkenburg
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2. Willem van Valkenburg
Coordinator TU Delft
Open Education Team
Board member
OpenCourseWare Consortium
Project Manager
OpenCourseWare Europe
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3. 1.
“The number of higher
education students in
the world is expected to
quadruple,
from around 100
million in 2000
to 400 million in 2030”
Foto: Ulrike Reinhard Learning Stations in Khajuraho, Rural India
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4. To accommodate them we need to build
9.615 universities in 30 years
That is 3 universities
For 30.000 students
per week
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5. 2.
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“Students expect to
choose what they
learn, how they
learn and when
they learn”
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6. Yet, this is how we teach
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9. • Free to Reuse
• Free to Revise
• Free to Remix
• Free to Redistribute
David Wiley 4Rs framework: http://www.opencontent.org/definition/
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10. What does a
MOOC look like?
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11. Basic ingredients of a MOOC
Learning Unit
1
Learning
Unit 2
Learning
Unit 3
Learning
Unit 4
Learning
Unit 5
Learning
Unit 6
Up to 10
weeks
MOOC is divided into weeks. From 3 to 10 weeks
Learning
Unit
Learning
Block 1
video
4 to 12 hours study time
Clear learning goals, end-of unit assessment
Learning
Block 2
Learning
Block 3
quiz
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text
Each with a couple of selfcontained learning blocks
quiz
discuss
12. Textbooks
In 2013 five times as much
books sold as in 2012
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15. 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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17. What kind of MOOCs do we want?
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18. March/April ‘14
September ‘13
DelftX Courses
Water Treatment
Solar Energy
Next Generation
Infrastructures
Aeronautical
Engineering
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Credit Risk
Management
19. Teaser Aeronautical Engineering
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1UVE1GPdgc
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