Last Friday I was asked to do an presentation for the teachers of TU Delft Aerospace Engineering who are involved with the Online Master pilot. The presentation should give an overview of what is happening around the world in open and online education.… more »
Tag: "open education"
Last month I wrote about the video's of the Why Open Education Matters Contest and that you can vote for it.
The jury winners are announced today. I have embedded the winning video below. I think it is a really good video to use as an introduction to O… more »
Ik merk dat een heel aantal termen door elkaar worden gebruikt, zoals OER, OpenCourseWare, Open Education, Online Education. In deze blog probeer ik hier wat duidelijkheid in te scheppen en ook de verschillen aan te geven.
Open Educational Resources (O… more »
While a lot of educationalist are talking about flipping the classroom, is MIT working on 'flipping the funnel'. Last friday Anant Agarwal, founder of MITx/edX, did a presentation at the Unesco OER Congress.
Traditional most American elite universities… more »
In the Open Education Week of this year the US Department of Education announced the Why Open Education Matters. Now you can vote for your favourite video. The video's are great to watch and it is difficult to select the best. The contest has a Public… more »
Curt Bonk heeft een interessante blog over verschillende type MOOCs. Met de MOOCs die er nu zijn, zie je verschillende doelen, doelgroepen en achterliggende redenen om dit te doen. Hij (samen met Jay Cross) onderscheidt hier verschillende types. Wat… more »
The last two weeks multiple articles were published about what MOOCs are and what they are not. Here an overview:
Debbie Morrisson - MOOC Mythbuster – What MOOCs are and what they aren’t there’s been much speculation, misconceptions, exaggerations an… more »
The announcement from MIT and Harvard caused quiet some stir around the globe. It even was mentioned in the Dutch media. Normally they are not interested in Open Education. A couple of observations and questions I have:
Platform Why do all those Open… more »
Yesterday Blackboard announced the first Free, Open Course on their CourseSites platform: Please join us in CourseSites for a unique opportunity to learn with Dr. Bonk -- and from each other -- in our first open course focused on increasing student… more »
We got a very good media coverage from our Open Education Week event. It is good to see that the effort we put in, worked out in the international press. We got articles in New York Times/International Herald Tribune, Times Higher Education and European… more »