Willem van Valkenburg discusses open educational resources and TU Delft's OpenCourseWare program. He explains that OCW provides free, open educational materials organized as courses to advance formal and informal learning worldwide. TU Delft has experienced over 200,000 visits and increasing international applications since starting its OCW program. Faculty are motivated by reputation, attracting students, and investing in future education methods. The future of OCW lies in adapting to digital formats and content and addressing challenges like sustainability and incentivizing faculty participation.

1. Open Educational Resources Why do we give away our content? Willem van Valkenburg, Director TU Delft OpenCourseWare Delft University of Technology 2011

7. • ~170 live OCW sites • ~14.000 courses http://ocwconsortium.org Advancing formal and informal learning through the worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality education materials organized as courses.

8. 2. Results of Delft

9. ICT in education: TU Delft

11. OCW.TUDelft.nl

13. Courses Delft design guide

14. Delftse Leerlijn Bridging the gap

17. 3. Motives

18. Context of HE: Internationalisation as a condition for excellence International competition to get the best students, best education, best research Bridging the gap-problems causes increased heterogeneity Student as customer : higher expectations Increase in number of students versus decrease in government funding Opportunities of the digital age

21. What do faculty member say? “ EPA wants to be recognized as an international education program. With OCW we can! ” Engineering & Policy Analysis Dr. Ir. B. Enserink Watermanagement Dr. Ir. J.Q.J.C. Verberk “ Since we publish our courses on OCW, we see an increase in the number of international PhD students”

23. 4. The future

29. “ 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

30. March 10, 2011 [email_address] twitter.com/wfvanvalkenburg slideshare.net/wfvanvalkenburg OCW.tudelft.nl