E-learn Weblog of Willem van Valkenburg
Blogging about OER, OCW, Blackboard, Mobile, Social Media and other interesting stuff
Tags: tu delft
Bringing OER into the class
May 10th
My collegau Martijn Ouwehand did a presentation at the OCWC Global Conference about bringing OER into the classroom. This presentation is based on the project STUMBLE which is focused on adding OER materials to basic courses that have a low pass rate. T… more »
TU Delft OpenData hackathon
Mar 8th
Today I attended the launch of the TU Delft API. My colleagues organised a hackathon for students, employees and companies to introduce the API and how it works. During the hackathon the participants got a couple of presentations, but most time was spen… 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 »
Help, ik word opgenomen . . .
Jun 26th
Door collega's Sofia Dopper en Ruud van Zijl is een gids geschreven voor docenten over het opnemen van colleges. Hoewel de gids heel specifiek voor de TU Delft is, bevat het ook voor buitenstaanders nuttige tips:
Hoe ziet een opgenomen college er uit… more »
Net-les: online huiswerkbegeleiding
Apr 11th
De afgelopen jaren zijn de huiswerkbegeleidingsinstituten uit de grond geschoten. Hier is dus duidelijk behoefte aan. Wat opvalt is dat deze eigenlijk allemaal vrij traditioneel van opzet zijn. Ze hebben een ruimte waar de scholieren na school naar toe… more »
Survey among our OpenCourseWare instructors
Mar 30th
The last three months we had a trainee, Elise van Utrecht, who did her internship with the TU Delft OpenCourseWare team. Her main research question was:
How do instructors that have published OCW-courses, experience TU Delft OpenCourseWare
This main r… more »
iTU Delft app: nieuwe ikonen
Mar 23rd
Vorige maand hebben wij een kleine update van onze iTU Delft-app ingediend. Deze update werd echter afgekeurd door Apple. De reden die werd opgevoerd:
The reason given: 8.3 We found that your app is too similar to iPS HOME screen, which is not in comp… more »
Media coverage of Open Education Week Event
Mar 22nd
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 »
