Open Education Week is a celebration of the global Open Education Movement. Its purpose is to raise awareness about the movement and its impact on teaching and learning worldwide. Participation in all events and use of all resources are free and open to… more »
Archives for: "January 2014"
Earlier this week MIT and Harvard University announced the release of a series of working papers based on 17 online courses offered on the edX platform. The working paper series features detailed reports about individual courses; these reports reveal di… more »
The guys from CETIS have written an interesting white paper on the next phase after MOOCs:
The key opportunity for institutions is to take the concepts developed by the MOOC experiment to date and use them to improve the quality of their face-to-face a… more »
Last monday I attended a public hearing of the committee on Culture & Education of the European Parlement. The subject of the hearing was "New technologies and open educational resources". I was nominated as expert by the MEP Marietje Schaake of the… more »
This week the yearly world economic forum in Davos is taking place. One of the announcement is the launch of Forum Academy. They do this in a partnership with EdX and will use the Open.EdX platform:
Davos, Switzerland, 22 January 2014 – The World Eco… more »
A small but import step for Delft University of Technology. Today we announced the appointments of a Dean of Open and Online Education and a Director of Education for Open and Online Education:
The Executive Board has appointed Dr.ir. Rob Fastenau, De… more »
Afgelopen woensdag zat minister Bussemaker van onderwijs bij De Wereld Draait Door om te praten over de brief die zij naar de Tweede Kamer heeft gestuurd (persbericht). In 13 minuten is dit besproken:
Ter voorbereiding hebben wij zowel contact met he… more »