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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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