E-learn Weblog of Willem van Valkenburg
Blogging about OER, OCW, Blackboard, Mobile, Social Media and other interesting stuff
Tags: opencourseware
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 »
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 »
OCW4STEM project submitted
Jan 30th
Yesterday we finalised the project proposal for the OCW4STEM project. Together with my collegue Michel Beerens we have crafted 392 pages and a very big excel sheet with the budget.
The proposal is for the EU Erasmus Life Long Learning programme as an A… more »
TU Delft OpenCourseWare in 2012
Dec 29th
Voor het TU Delft OpenCourseWare-project was 2012 een succesvol jaar. We hebben onszelf 3 speerpunten gekozen en daarbij 6 doelstellingen:
Marketing
het gemiddeld aantal dagelijkse bezoekers per kwartaal verhogen van 450 naar 600.
het aantal volg… more »
Mooie promo voor TU Delft op OWD12
Nov 13th
Vandaag was de eerste dag van de Onderwijsdagen 2012. Voor het eerst vonden deze niet plaats in Utrecht, maar in het WTC in Rotterdam. Natuurlijk wist de NS hiervan en veroorzaakte ze meteen een storing tussen Utrecht en Rotterdam.
Op het programma st… more »
TU Delft offers certificate of participation
Oct 24th
Yesterday was the official announcement of a new initiative of the OpenCourseWare Consortium and OpenStudy:
The OCW Consortium has partnered with OpenStudy to offer learners a Certificate of Participation through use of members’ OCW. Learners join an o… more »
Five years of TU Delft OpenCourseWare
Oct 17th
Last monday it was exactly 5 years ago that we launced our OpenCourseWare website. Last Thursday we celebrated this with a 'borrel' for all the people that were involved in those 5 years. Below the presentation of me about the first 5 years and Anka abo… more »
From OpenCourseWare to Online Education
Sep 30th
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 »
Online Education also for Residential Students
Sep 30th
An interesting post from Mike Caulfield about the trend of full-time residential students taking “distance learning” courses through their residential institutions. At TU Delft we are also seeing this trend. The great benefit of an online course is the… more »
