Presentation about DelftX for the DigHum Conference on 19th of September 2013 in Leuven

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Open Education
ir. W.F. van Valkenburg

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Willem van Valkenburg
Coordinator
TU Delft Open Education Team
Projectleader EU-project
OCW in the European HE context
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Board member of the
OpenCourseWare Consortium

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“Open and online
education allows people
from around the world
access to the top education
of TU Delft. It enables
everybody who wants to
develop themselves and
accommodates the
increasing number of
students seeking higher
education. TU Delft is
dedicated to deliver
world class education
to everyone.”
Drs. Anka Mulder. Vice President Education TU Delft

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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:
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What is Open Education?
Ecosystem of different Open Initiatives:

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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

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Online and Campus Education
Massive Open
Online Courses
(MOOCs)
Open
Course
Ware
(OCW)
Online Distance
Education
Campus
Education
• Learning Activities & Course Materials
• Free
• Enrolled students only, massive numbers
• Bachelors Level
• Certificate of Completion
• Course Materials
• Free
• Big Exposure, Worldwide audience
• Both Bachelor and Master level
• No interaction with faculty
• No accredited certificate
• Learning Activities & Course Materials
• Paid enrollment
• Enrolled students only, limited numbers
• Master level
• Accredited Course Certificate
• Full Master Degree
• On-campus Education
• Top-class education and research facilities
• World famous university library
• Active student societies
• Great opportunities to participate in special
student projects

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Why EdX?
•Consortium of top universities
•Focus on improving campus education
•It is not-for-profit
•It has a focus on Open
•Focus on research of innovation in
education

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What kind of MOOCs do we want?

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DelftX Courses
• Spring 2014:
• Introduction to Aerospace Engineering
• Next Generation Infrastructures
47,000
23,500

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Enrollment Timeline

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DelftX Demographics
(self-reported, >80% response rate)
Water Treatment Solar EnergyLevelofEducationGender

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Per MOOCProject team

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Anatomy of an edX Online Class

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Video
• Video on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4XO2_u7YYk

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Video Snippets/ Tablet Capture/
Voice-Over
Personalization Effect - Mayer 2003

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Virtual Game-Like Laboratories

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3.091X - Solid State Chemistry VSEPR Diagram
Exercises

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Lessons Learned
•Autocue is really helpful
•Good questions are just as important as
good videos
•Be aware of bandwidth limitations
•Production of MOOC costs a lot more
time than we expected
•Testing with beta-testers is important

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Research & Innovation
• Evaluation research
done by Thieme Hennis and Pieter de Vries on first two MOOCs
• Applied for a research grant on MOOC from Gates Foundation
see http://www.moocresearch.com/
• Case study in the course “Exploring Interactions”:
Explore learning in a online context and develop proposals that
envision innovation for edX or even a paradigm shift in education.
• Participating in Research Committee of EdX

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Example of Research 1)
Attrition/Retention by Key Event → From David Pritchard (MIT)
Numberper
Certificate
74% of those who
attempted 25% of
Hwk #2
received certificates!

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Relationships between background
and achievement
Background characteristic Predictive
Worked off line with someone else Positive
Level of calculus Positive
Level of schooling Marginal
Reason for enrolling
Age
Gender
Parental/home background
None
None
None
None

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Online Distance Education
• Full master degree
• Accredited Course Certificates
• Enrolled students only, limited numbers
• Pay regular tuition fee

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