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Less commonly used languages and OERWillem van ValkenburgManager Production & Delivery TU Delft Extension SchoolBoard Member Open Education Consortium

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Open Education Consortium

30,000+courses

280+organization

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40countries

29language

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Dutch Language

By Fobos92 (Own work) CC BY-SA via Wikimedia

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Dutch education system

Primary school

VMBO HAVO VWO

WOBa

HBOBa

WO MaHBO Ma

Based on https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onderwijs

Pilot with 18 schools in bilingual education

130 schools offer bilingual programmesand some trilingual

Most Ba are in Dutch, some in English

All WO Ma are in English

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TU Delft and the Dutch Language

• Most bachelor programmes are in Dutch, 3 in English

• All Master programmes are in English• 60% of our PhDs are international

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OpenCourseWare

• For OCW we use the language that the course is offered in.

• So mostly it means Dutch for Bachelors and English for Masters and moocs.

OCW.tudelft.nl

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MOOC

• Because of global reach decided to offer them in English.

• Some courses have subtitles in additional languages

• We offer our MOOCs on other platforms

edx.org/school/delftx

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MOOCs in Arabic

• MOOC Solar Energy is offered in Arabic on EdRaak platform

• We use a “surrogate” professor who will guide the students through the course and will add extra content.

• “Surrogate” prof is selected by us and is an former PhD student of the real professor

https://www.edraak.org/courses/DelftX/ET.3034TU/3T2014/about

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MOOC in Japanese

• Net Learning initiative• Translation are made by volunteers

• https://nlp.netlearning.co.jp

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Activities in Dutch

• Difference between Belgium and NL• MOOCs• Khan Academy NL• Wikiwijs• Using OER

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ONLINE-LEARNING.TUDELFT.NLOPEN.TUDELFT.NLOCW.TUDELFT.NL

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