E-learn Weblog of Willem van Valkenburg

Last week Coursera announced that they updated the enrolment and grading option of their courses. No longer you can have free access to the full course: Starting today, when you enroll in certain courses, you’ll be asked to pay a fee if you’d like to… more »

The staff of the Open Education Consortium has created a great overview of the activities of the Open Education Consortium. The overview gives interesting numbers of the Open Education Week 2015, the Global Conference in Banff, ,member & community… more »

Today at the 174th Dies Natalis (birthday) of Delft University of Technology, our rector magnificus announced that the Executive Board has accepted a new Open Access Policy for the university effective per 1st of May more »

This week the OECD published an interesting report about Open Educational Resources in educational policy and practice. The authors Dominic Orr, Michele Rimini and Dirk van Damme used the expertise of the Open Education field. Education is the key to… more »

On Monday I attended the conference "Wow! Europe embraces MOOCs", organised by the HOME project (coordinated by EADTU). This conference is the follow up of the meeting in Porto last year. The Porto conference delivered the Porto Declaration on European… more »

For the fourth year the SURF special interest group Open Education has written a trend report. This year the focusis on Open and Online Education. The report is availabe in Dutch and English. In 10 chapters and 8 intermezzos various Dutch experts gave… more »

Door de redactie van het SURF SIG Trendrapport Open en Online Onderwijs was ik gevraagd om een stuk aan te leveren over de veranderingen in de afgelopen jaren op het gebied van open onderwijs en dan speciaal vanuit een internationaal perspectief. De… more »

Today the Joint Research Centre of the EU published a new report with mini cases on open education in Europe: This catalogue contains 50 mini cases that highlight the practices of universities and educational institutions around open education in… more »

External researchers are invited to cooperate with TU Delft through short-cyclical research projects. Such projects provide researchers with ample opportunity for exploration and analysis of a particular research topic, but also aim for output within a relatively short time-span more »

More and more you hear about the term "Open Science". The term refers to developments in how science is becoming more open, accessible, efficient, democratic, and transparent, based on new, digital tools for scientific collaboration, experiments and analysis and which make scientific knowledge more easily accessible both for professionals and the general public. more »