tu delft opencourseware to online education
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Presentation about what is happening around the world in Open and Online Education for TU Delft instructors.TRANSCRIPT
08-04-2023
Challenge the future
DelftUniversity ofTechnology
From OpenCourseWare to Online Education
ir. Willem van Valkenburg
Please attribute Willem van Valkenburg
http://willemvanvalkenburg.nl
Willem van Valkenburg
Projectleader TU Delft OpenCourseWare
Assistant to the President of the OpenCourseWare Consortium
Projectleader EU-project OCW in the European HE context
twitter.com/wfvanvalkenburg slideshare.net/wfvanvalkenburg
Agenda
• What is happening around the world?• What are all those abbreviations?
• What is happening at TU Delft?
• What is Online Education?
• Questions & Discussion
What is happening around the world?1.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/04/us/auditing-classes-at-mit-on-the-web-and-free.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/16/science/16stanford.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/19/world/europe/19iht-educlede19.html?_r=1
http://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2012/05/06/will-edx-put-harvard-and-mit-out-of-business/
http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/technology-and-learning/why-every-university-does-not-need-mooc
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/07/the-single-most-important-experiment-in-higher-education/259953
/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnebersole/2012/09/24/online-learning-maturing-perhaps-improving-always/
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=419779&c=1
http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/24/ted-launches-new-ed-platform/
Summary
• Open Education starts to get mainstream• Disruption in HE?• Students expect more from Online Education
• Online Education is improving
What are all those abbreviations?2.
Open?• Free• Shared• Choices• Ability to adapt• Cost effective• Ability to tailor & build
your own• Creative Commons• Freedom of info and
use
• Quality assurance• Varied availability by
disciplines• Available to anybody• Digital• Often multimedia• Accessibility—more
accessible to some and less to others
CC-BY Brandon Muramatsu: http://www.slideshare.net/bmuramatsu/oex
OCW part of the Open Movement
Open Content
Open Educational Resources
OCW
• OCW is only one type of
Open Educational Resource
(OER).
• OERs are only one type of
Open Content.
• We have much to share
with each other.
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
Over 260 institutions and organizations worldwide supporting open sharing in education
Number of courses from members
Oct/03 Apr/04 Oct/04 Apr/05 Oct/05 Apr/06 Oct/06 Apr/07 Oct/07 Apr/08 Oct/08 Apr/09 Oct/09 Apr/10 Oct/10 Apr/11 Oct/110
5000
10000
15000
20000
25000
511 550 760 995 1,3061,747
3,1883,845
4,634
6,023
7,591
10,550
15,88516,12316,574
18,135
21,056
What is a MOOC
•Massive •Open•Online•Course
Image CC-BY-NC Gordon Lockhart:http://gbl55.wordpress.com/2011/03/08/cck11-man-this-mooc-is-something-else/
Massive• Stanford University – Artificial Intelligence course
• 160,000 students• MIT – Circuits and Electronics course
• 120,000 students• Indiana – Instructional Ideas and Technology Tools for
Online Success• 4,000 students
Open
• Everybody can participate • But more important, there are many ways to participate:• ‘open’ means being able to watch• ‘open’ means being able to participate at your own level• ‘open’ means participating publicly, so other can watch
Source: http://www.slideshare.net/Downes/education-as-platformImage CC-BY-NC-SA: http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcwathieu/2412755417/
Online
• Means that it is connective,interactive
• You can’t put a MOOC on a DVD• The MOOC is the process• It is a process that is greatly aided by being online:•Many tasks are automated, scaffolded•Much greater communicative capacity•More access to data, calculations
Source: http://www.slideshare.net/Downes/education-as-platformImage CC-BY-NC-SA: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gforsythe/5552385806/
Experiences from the AI-class• 23,000 students passed the online course (253 got perfect
scores)
• Professor Thrun has taught more students the subject than all of the rest of the computer science professors in the world.
• The 23,000 who passed the course represent more students than most faculty will teach in their career.
• Out of the 200 Stanford students attending the traditional course, only 41 were in class at the end of the course.
• The other 159 opted for the online asynchronous presentation.
• 410 online students outperformed the top Stanford student!
• Students themselves translated the class for free from English into 44 languages.
• The on-campus passing rate was the highest ever. CC-BY-NC-SA Zaid Ali Alsagoff: http://www.slideshare.net/zaid/dna-of-a-21st-century-educator-v2
Kind of MOOCs
Mechanical MOOC
ContentExercises &
Quizzes
Study Groups E-mail Lists
Open Moving Forward
Content
Snippets
Courses
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What is Open Education?
Ecosystem of different Open Initiatives:
Importance of Open Education
Potential for…• 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
Open is a means to an end:
Improved learning
Comparing
TRADITIONAL
OPEN COURSE WARE
OPEN EDUCATION ONLINE EDUCATION
ACCESS Tuition fee Open Open
Tuition fee
STUDENT INTERACTION
Yes, mostly offline
No Yes, online learning platform & social media
Yes, online learning platform & social media
INTERACTION
WITH LECTURERS
Yes No Yes, online learning platform & social media
Yes, online learning platform & social media
EXAMS Yes Yes, but self testing
Yes, online Yes, online and on campus
CERTIFICATES Yes, accredited
No Yes, non accredited Yes, accredited
DIPLOMA Yes, accredited
No No Yes, accredited
Translated from http://www.e-learn.nl/2012/07/06/onderwijs-in-de-online-wereld
What is happening at TU Delft?3.
Characteristics of our OERs
Blackboard
Digital learning environment
Collegerama
lecture recordings
OpenCourseWare
Free accessible courses
iTunes U/Youtube Edu
Open Educational Resources
Context
(course)
No context
(single
resources)
internal
external
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 online education inevitable
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-BY-NC-SA: http://ocw.tudelft.nl
TU Delft Policy (ICTO Plan 2011-2014)
Collaborative & Active Learning
Mobile
Next-generation Classroom
TU Delft distance & online
Education
Systems&
Resources
Face to face VirtualMassification
Personalisation
TU Delft aims to have a distance & online education programme operational within 4 years.
Collaborative & Active Learning
Mobile
Next-generation Classroom
TU Delft distance &
online Education
Systems&
Resources
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)
What is Online Education?4.
Definition?
• Improved version of distance learning: synchronous• Taking courses without attending a brick-and-mortar
university
• Two important characteristics:• Internet-based• Two-way communication
5 Big Mistakes of online education
CC-BY-NC-SA Guillermo Ramirez: http://www.slideshare.net/guiramirez/the-5-bigmistakesofvirtualeducation
Big Mistake #1 #1
Believing thatVirtual Education = Massive Education
#1
Big Mistake #2 #2
Believing that Online Education = Mysterious and Complex Education
#2
• There is a myth that goes around: A good traditional teacher will not easily become a good virtual teacher.
...False. A good teacher is a good teacher with any tool.
…Unless you think that a «good» virtual teacher = a good actor.
#2
Big Mistake #3 #3
Putting Technology before Pedagogy
#3
Big Mistake #4 #4
Underestimating yourTeachers and Students
#4
Big Mistake #5 #5
Taking the Fun out of Education
#5
Education should be accidental, unpredictable, unscripted.
…There is plenty of room in virtual education
for spontaneity.
…Students and teachers should be encouraged to take risks.
#5
Kaplan University
• In 10 years from 34 to 68,000 students• 4 schools:
• Arts and sciences/crimimal justice/ general education• Business and management / information systems and
technology• Nursing and health sciences• Legal studies
• Their motto: ‘Online but not alone’ -> focus on support• Business model: efficiency x effectiveness
• standardized courses• Low drop-out rates / high pass percentage
Online Education is radically different
• Put learning at the heart, not teaching (outcomes-based)
• ‘Flipping the coin’• Classes are a preparation ‘before they go to school’
• Only two courses simultaneous during a 10 week period• A week starts on Wednesday• Examination
• Participation in group discussion• Weekly individual assignments• Group projects• Simulations and case studies
So what should you do?
10 Best practices for Teaching Online
1. Be Present at the Course Site.2. Create a supportive online course community.3. Share a set of very clear expectations for your
students and for yourself as to (1) how you will communicate and (2) how much time students should be working on the course each week.
4. Use a variety of large group, small group, and individual work experiences.
5. Use both synchronous and asynchronous activities.
Copyright Judith.V. Boettcher 1997 - 2012http://www.designingforlearning.info/services/writing/ecoach/tenbest.html
10 Best practices for Teaching Online
6. Early in the term - about week 3, ask for informal feedback on "How is the course going?" and "Do you have any suggestions?“.
7. Prepare Discussion Posts that Invite Questions, Discussions, Reflections and Responses.
8. Focus on content resources and applications and links to current events and examples that are easily accessed from learner's computers.
9. Combine core concept learning with customized and personalized learning.
10.Plan a good closing and wrap activity for the course.
Copyright Judith.V. Boettcher 1997 - 2012http://www.designingforlearning.info/services/writing/ecoach/tenbest.html
The opposite of open isn’t “closed”
CC-BY Cable Green: http://www.slideshare.net/cgreen/the-obviousness-of-open-policy-2011
The opposite of open is “broken”
CC-BY Cable Green: http://www.slideshare.net/cgreen/the-obviousness-of-open-policy-2011
CC-BY: http://www.flickr.com/photos/21496790@N06/5065834411/
Questions
facebook.com/TuDelft.OpenCourseWare
nl.linkedin.com/in/ocwtudelft
twitter.com/TUDelftOCW
slideshare.net/DelftOpenEr
ocw.tudelft.nl