This document summarizes Willem van Valkenburg's presentation on OpenData at Delft University of Technology. The presentation covered TU Delft's mobile app called iTU Delft, which provides information and services to students and staff from iOS, Android and mobile web applications. It also discussed TU Delft's involvement in open educational resources through its OpenCourseWare initiative, which makes course materials freely available online to promote open access to education worldwide. Key points included the benefits of open licensing of educational content, TU Delft's contributions of video content to open platforms like iTunesU and YouTube, and the use of open standards to share courses broadly.

1. OpenData lunch seminar
Ir. W.F. van Valkenburg
9-5-2012
Delft
University of
Technology
Challenge the future

2. Willem van Valkenburg
Director TU Delft OpenCourseWare
OCW.tudelft.nl
Assistant to the President of the
OpenCourseWare Consortium
Projectleader EU-project
OCW in the European HE context
twitter.com/wfvanvalkenburg slideshare.net/wfvanvalkenburg
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3. Agenda
•iTU Delft
•OpenCourseWare
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4. Mobile iTU Delft
9-5-2012
Delft
University of
Technology
Challenge the future

5. Type of mobile phone
2009 2011
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6. Platform of Smart Phones
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7. TU Delft Policy
(ICTO Plan 2011-2014)
•Mobile Support
• This is support by immediate access to up-to-date
information via a mobile device
•Mobile Learning
• E-learning via a mobile device
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8. Mobile Support
•iTU Delft app available for
iOS, Android and mobile web
•More information:
http://m.tudelft.nl
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9. 14 Modules
• Directory
• Events
• Maps + Places
• Videos
• News
• Library
• Learn
• iTunesU
• Transit
• Help
• Find a PC
• Twitter
• Facebook
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10. Blackboard Mobile Central –
How it works
Mobile
Central Cloud
cache
authentication
University
webservices services
Users
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11. Maps & Places (1)
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12. Maps & Places (2)
•Data needed:
• Geo-location of buildings
• Names of buildings
• Names and locations of places
•Problem: data was available
•Created own database
•Created web services
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13. Transit
Public transport
information
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14. Directory
•Same information as
telefoonboek.tudelft.nl
•Connects via LDAPs
•Moving to web services for extra information
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15. Events
•Used delftcalendar.tudelft.nl
•Created webservice
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16. News
•Based on RSS-feeds
•Problem: if you click a link it doesn’t show a
mobile optimized page
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17. Library
•Connected to
webservices of
DISCOVER
•More information
can be shown
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18. OpenCourseWare
Sharing of Educational Content
9-5-2012
Delft
University of
Technology
Challenge the future

19. “Open” Terminology
Open = free/flexible/sharable
Open License = sharable license (example:
Creative Commons’ most open license: CC-
BY)
Open CourseWare (OCW) = sharable
course materials
Open Educational Resources (OER) =
sharable learning materials (broader than
OCW)
Source: Tom Caswell
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20. Education is Sharing
•Teachers Share With Students
•Students Share With Teachers
•Knowledge is Magical:
• Can be given without being given away
•Educational Sharing also means adapting or
editing
• but copyright forbids this
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21. Who Pays for Research?
•Publishers make 2% of the investment, then
take © and charge you for access
•Public (Who Paid) Has No Access
All taxpayer-funded educational resources
should be OER
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22. The Paradox of Free
Won’t people stop paying for the course
materials or books if they’re free?
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23. Research from David Wiley
•Over 2% of people who access open online
courses become paying customers
•Downloads of free online books correlate
strongly with sales of print books
•A for-profit business can be financially
successful using CC licenses on its textbooks
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24. What is TU Delft doing?
•Promoting Open Access
•Publish video content to iTunesU and
Youtube
•Publish courses to OpenCourseWare
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25. Characteristics of our OERs
internal
Blackboard Collegerama
Digital learning environment lecture recordings
Context No context
(course) OpenCourseWare iTunes U/Youtube Edu (single resources)
Free accessible courses Open Educational Resources
external
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26. OCW.TUDelft.nl
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27. Re-use of OCW
1. Choice of Study
2. Stumble Courses
3. Prepare International Students
4. Use in Developing Countries
5. Source of Reference
6. Extracurricular education
7. Online Education
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28. Open Standards
•RSS
• Publish our courses on ocwconsortium.org
•OAI-PMH
• Publish our courses in DISCOVER
• Publish our courses in Wikiwijs
•IMS Common Cartridge
• Import Blackboard courses
• Export courses to any LMS
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29. Questions?
Presentation is on
www.slideshare.com/wfvanvalkenburg
Ir. W.F. van Valkenburg
w.f.vanvalkenburg@tudelft.nl
www.e-learn.nl
twitter.com/wfvanvalkenburg
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