As part of the Open Education Week we organised an Open.EdX hackathon. According to Wikipedia a hackathon (also known as a hack day, hackfest or codefest) is an event in which computer programmers and others involved in software development, including g… more »
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The Orange Carpet Award is a yearly award for projects that promote internationalisation of higher education institutes in the Netherlands. Each year there are 3 projects nominated by a jury. This year the nomimated projects were:
Maastricht School o… more »
2013 has been a busy year for me. Looking back at my blog it suprised me that I still managed to blog 101 posts (including this one) this year. That is one more than last year. I had the idea that I didn't blog enough this year. The image above shows a… more »
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 »
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 »
The registration has started for two new DelftX courses that start in March and April of 2014.
Aeronautical Engineering
The first course is Introduction to Aeronautical Engineering:
Discover the fascinating world of aviation by investigating aeronaut… more »
Yesterday we organised an informal launch event for our DelftX MOOCs. With the push of the button of the two teachers the courses opened at 13.30 (Delft time).
We also made a short video of the event: more »
Tomorrow at 13.30 (Delft time) the first two MOOCs (Solar Energy and Introduction to Water Treatment) of Delftx will start. The last couple of months we have been working hard organise the production process of our MOOCs and helping the faculty with the… more »
This fall I will speak at quiet a lot of conferences. I will speak in Leuven, Athens, Park City, Rotterdam, Nairobi, Amstelveen and Leiden. It is all about Open Education and mostly about MOOCs.
September:
19th: DigHum Summerschool I will speak th… more »
In Campus Technology Michelle Fredette has written an interesting article about How to Convert a Classroom Course Into a MOOC.
The sheer size and diversity of the student body in a MOOC force faculty to use strategies for planning, teaching, and assess… more »