This week the Executive Board has appointed me as the new Executive Director of the Delft Extension School per the 1st of January 2020. I’m delighted with this appointment and looking forward to lead the Extension School into a new phase. more »
Tag: "online education"
There is a growing need for online learning. Blended learning and online courses are becoming a norm for both campus and professional education. The role and tasks of the teacher are different online from teaching in physical classes. It requires additional qualities and digital skills to stimulate a conducive learning experience for students. more »
Every ranking is debatable, but if you are ranked #1 worldwide it does feel good! Yesterday the MoocLab introduced the new World University Rankings by MOOC Performance (WURMP). This ranking evaluates universities on 5 performance indicators that… more »
posted on Nov 26, 2019 by willem in Online Learning, Open Education, Teaching Lab, blended education
In January 2020 we are organising the second Erasmus Exchange Week from January 28 to 31 in the TU Delft Teaching Lab more »
posted on Nov 24, 2019 by willem in Online Learning, Open Education, Teaching Lab, blended education
Our university is facing growing number of students and are hiring more teachers. This also has a influence on the support staff, so I have been hiring quiet some new people and currently have two positions open: Learning Developer/ UTQ Trainer:… more »
Florence Martin, Kiran Budhrani, and Chuang Wang wrote an interesting paper on faculty perception of their readiness to teach online: Faculty readiness to teach online is a state of faculty preparedness for online teaching. more »
posted on Apr 17, 2019 by willem in Online Learning, Open Education, Teaching Lab, blended education
We get many requests for visits from academic and staff from other universities to visit our Teaching Lab and hear about what and especially how we have organised our open, online and blended education activities. To make this a bit more efficient for… more »
Today we celebrated the fifth year anniversary of the Delft Extension School. It is a good moment to look back at what we accomplished. You can look at the numbers as displayed in the graph above, but the impact has been much bigger for the university. more »
EADTU has conducted a follow-up study on the first Changing Pedagogical Landscape report (published 2015). Based on qualitative research in various European countries, this report identifies patterns in policies and practices of new models of teaching… more »
Today I was invited to give a keynote presentation at the 9th international e-learning conference of the Thailand Cyber University in Bangkok. The theme of the conference is “MOOCs and beyond”. more »