E-learn Weblog of Willem van Valkenburg
Blogging about OER, OCW, Blackboard, Mobile, Social Media and other interesting stuff
Category: OpenCourseWare
Workshop OpenCourseWare and Student Mobility
May 26th
For our OpenCourseWare Europe we are organising an workshop on OpenCourseWare and Student Mobility. The main goal of this two-day event is to showcase and discuss scenarios and guidelines with regard to how OpenCourseWare (OCW) can facilitate student vi… more »
TU Delft receives two OCW Awards
May 9th
At the OCWC Global Conference two courses of TU Delft OpenCourseWare have received CourseWare award. These awards recognize outstanding course materials in two categories, Video & Multimedia and Text & Illustrations. Five awards will be given i… more »
Elected as board member of OCW Consortium
May 8th
Today I got elected as board member of OCW Consortium on behave of Delft University of Technology. It is a great honour to be board member for the Consortium. I have attended many board meeting since 2008, but now I'm also allowed to vote.
The Consorti… more »
MOOCs and Open Education: Implications for Higher Education
Apr 5th
Li Yuan and Stephen Powell from JISC CETIS have written an interesting white paper on MOOCs and Open Education. The goal of the authors is to help decision makers in higher education institutions gain a better understanding of MOOCs and trends towards g… more »
Can OpenCourseWare widen Europe's science and technology skills-base?
Mar 27th
Yesterday the Guardian featured an article from Anka Mulder about the OCW4STEM project we submitted in January:
Technology is fundamentally reshaping how we work, socialise and communicate, but too few European students are opting to study the subjec… more »
What Impact Have MOOCs Had on Open Courseware?
Mar 26th
Last week Audrey Watters blogged about the question "What has the impact been of MOOCs on MIT OCW usage?". The answer from Steve Carson:
The site has seen ?record levels of traffic? since the MOOC craze began: 22.3 million visitors in 2012, up 25%… more »
Open Education Week evenement
Mar 14th
Gisteren was het evenement dat ik samen met Hester Jelgerhuis (SURF) en Robert Schuwer (OU NL) heb georganiseerd in het kader van de Open Education Week.
Het hele evenement is ook uitstekend vastgelegd op video. Op het youtube-kanaal van SURF zijn deze… more »
OER Trend Report 2013
Mar 12th
Yesterday the OER Trend Report 2013 of the Dutch special interest group for Open Educational Resources has been published:
The Trend Report: Open Educational Resources 2013 describes trends in open educational resources (OER) and open education in t… more »
SurfAcademy seminar over MOOCs
Feb 27th
Gisteren vond het SurfAcademy seminar over MOOCs plaats. Toen wij enkele maanden geleden vanuit de SIG OER bedachten dat het wel een goed onderwerp voor een seminar zou zijn en we een programma hebben opgesteld, hadden wij niet verwacht dat er zo veel b… more »
Anka Mulder appointed as Vice-President for Education & Operations of TU Delft
Feb 22nd
Anka Mulder is my boss at the the department of Education & Student Affairs. In 2011 she got additional responsibilities as secretary-general of the university. Today we received the announcement that she will succeed Paul Rullmann as Vice-President… more »
