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.
โThe number of higher
education students in
the world is expected to
quadruple,
from around 100
million in 2000
to 400 million in 2030โ
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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โStudents expect to
choose what they
learn, how they
learn and when
they learnโ
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6. Yet, this is how we teach
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7. CC BY Tinou Bao
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9. โข Free to Reuse
โข Free to Revise
โข Free to Remix
โข 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. European MOOCs
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http://openeducationeuropa.eu/en/european_scoreboard_moocs
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13. MOOCs by Subjects
CC-BY OpenEducation Europe:
http://openeducationeuropa.eu/en/european_scoreboard_moocs
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17. Why EdX?
โขConsortium of top universities
โขFocus on improving campus education
โขIt is not-for-profit
โขIt has a focus on Open
โขFocus on research of innovation in education
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19. What kind of MOOCs do we want?
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20. March/April โ14
September โ13
DelftX Courses
Water Treatment
Solar Energy
Next Generation
Infrastructures
Aeronautical
Engineering
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Credit Risk
Management
24. Video Usage
Download Server
โข 1 mln file downloads
โข 146,7 TB data traffic
Solar
# videos
# views
# minutes
watched
Av. video
length watched
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Water
60
111
168.591
36.505
1.195.418
203.704
7 min
5,5 min
27. Teaser Aeronautical Engineering
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1UVE1GPdgc
Image video still from above video CC-BY DelftX
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Purpose is to open acces to education, so learners get more opportunities to tackle a wide variety of problems. Learners is a broad term: worldwide, all ages, outside our university but on our campus as well!!!Our students benefit from open education: better preperation, study choice, more and better resources, higher quality of education and course materials, etc