The first two MOOCs of DelftX are about to finish. This is a good moment to publish our MOOC Journeys we have created in the past months to help teachers and course designers with the development of their moocs. more »
Archives for: "November 2013"
Today, US Senators Durbin and Franken introduced the Affordable College Textbook Act for consideration by the US Senate. This act specifically supports the use of OER and open textbooks. From the press release:
Textbook costs are one of the most over… more »
John Robertsen posted an interesting presentation about the use of someone else's MOOC in your course. He identifies four different models.
The guest lecture
The reading
The textbook
The distributed flip
Below is his presentation:
Osw M… more »
Aanstaande dinsdag en woensdag zijn de onderwijsdagen. Dit jaar is dinsdag gericht op het hoger onderwijs en woensdag op po, vo en mbo. Recent ging ik het programma bekijken en zag ik dat de TU Delft wel erg goed vertegenwoordigd bij de sessies. Totaal… more »
On the third day of the conference I had to do my own presentation. The title 'Pushing EdX to be Open' I submitted half a year ago, still did the job, the room was filled.
The slides of my presentation are below. As soon as the video is available I wil… more »
This morning David Kernohan did an a-typical keynote. He started of that he couldn't do it and ran away. On the screen we saw him running and that was already part of his documentary. His documentary The Avalanche that Hasn’t Happened gives a critical e… more »
The first keynote of the OpenEd Conference this year was supposed to be delivered by Daphne Koller of Coursera. Because some reason I don't know, we ended up with the other founder of Coursera Andrew Ng via a skype connection. He did a presentation… more »
At the OpenEd Conference Kathi Fletcher presented a new open-source editor for creating textbooks that are immediately available on the web, in epub format and pdf. This project is done with the OERPUB project.
With the development they kept as close t… more »
The 10th annual OpenCourseWare Consortium Global Conference will be held in Europe. From April 23-25, 2014 Ljubljana in Slovenia is place to be.
The OpenCourseWare Consortium and the Knowledge for All Foundation are jointly organizing the event whose s… more »