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MOOCs & Accessibility

Janine Kiers

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13-nu Product Manager MOOCs

00-03 Capacity Development, Filipijnen

Janine Kiers

04-12 Innovation in industry & education

97-00 Project Manager, DSM Biologics

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• Reach• Research• Residential

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Next Generation Infrastructures 2

Drinking Water Treatment

Functional Programming

Delft DesignApproach

Technology for Bioproducts

Solving Complex Problems

ResponsibleInnovation

Treatment of Urban Sewage

Introduction to Water & Climate

Introduction to Solar Energy

Aeronautical Engineering

Credit Risk Management

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Latest products

Pre-University Calculus

Pre-university courses

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Professional Education

Latest products

Economics of Cybersecurity

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Resulting from the MOOC-tender:

New MOOCs per 2015

Economics of Information Security

Physical Transport Phenomena

Topology for Condensed Matter: Untying Quantum Knots

Framing

Take your Data Analysis to the MAX with Excel

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Sneak preview

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Platform: EdX

• Consortium of top universities

• Focus on improving campus education

• It is not-for-profit

• Focus is on Open• Research for Educational Innovation

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Consortium

• Founders• Contributors• Members

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Open

• Anyone with an internet connection

• Course materials are open • Open source platform

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Creative Commons license

Author

= owner

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Use a MOOC

• Course ContentResources: Text, audio, video, presentations

• Teaching EffortActions: Human Contribution by teachers, instructors, trainers, developers

• Educational ServicesProcesses: tutoring, advice, meetings, communities, assessment

Contact TU Delft

Contact TU Delft

“Real-time”:

always

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New developments edX platform

EdX Product Roadmap (public)https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/display/PROD/Product+Roadmap

– Teaching & Learning Tools– Mobile– Open edx and platform investments– Student experience on edx.org– Professional Education– Data & Analytics

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New developments edX platform

EdX Product Roadmap (public)– Teaching & Learning Tools– Mobile– Open edx and platform investments– Student experience on edx.org– Professional Education– Data & Analytics

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Teaching & Learning Tools

Better student experience: New forum features

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Teaching & Learning Tools

Faster building: Easier publishing from studio

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Teaching & Learning Tools

• Formation of cohorts• Group work• Peer Review

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edX Mobile

MOOC on your mobile phone

By Victorgrigas (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 ]

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• Open community

• More structured– Bug list

– Back log

– Documentation

Open edX

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• Student experience

Edx.org

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• ProfEd on edX-website– UniversityX course on edX-website

• “White Label” courses– Own brand and label on “university website” run

on edX

ProfEd

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Data: Geographic distribution

Based on IP-address last log in

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Data: Student behaviour

Weekly student interaction with course material

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Use MOOCs on-campus

Solar EnergyMOOC material is preparation for the more in depth sessions with the teacher and lab experiments

Water TreatmentMOOC material partly replaces lectures, run on Blackboard

Solving Complex ProblemsReverse evolution: 1. On-campus, 2. Blended, 3. MOOC

Fundamentals of water treatmentOnline course is follow up of the MOOC, for the best students, on edge.edx & Bb

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Water & ClimateMOOC material used in on-campus course, run on Bb

Functional ProgrammingFinishing the MOOC required TU Delft course. More a split classroom than a flipped classroom.

Aeronautical Engineering MOOC material is optional, as extra course material for TU Delft course. Unofficial blended course.

Credit Risk ManagementMOOC will be a relevant part of the on-campus course, on edX. Blended.

Use MOOCs on-campus

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Overall

• On-campus-user-friendly• Continuous development• Open source code• Start-up atmosphere• Searching for sustainable business model• Access to experience of partners

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Cheap cars -> jobs eliminated, but productivity of driver augmented: serve more customers, faster & over greater distances -> economic gain shared by workers, consumers & capital owners.

The Economist, October 4, 2014

Special report on Technology & world economy

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“47% of employment in America is at high risk of being automated away over the next decade or two” – can human workers upgrade their skills fast enough?