New directions in drinking water engineering education

Challenge the future

DelftUniversity ofTechnology

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New directions in drinking water engineering education

Jasper Verberk, Peter de Moel, Hans van DijkSanitary Engineering, Watermanagement, Faculty CiTG, Delft University of Technologgy



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1.The Dutch drinking water secret



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Netherlands and waterWatermanagement since 1200 AD

Reclaimed land



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Water = national export product

and others...



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Students from all over the world

> 50% International students10-20% LLL20% from other Delft and Dutch unis10-20% CE BSc students



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2.Before 2007



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MSc Watermanagement



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Drinking Water Education

• 2 courses in BSc• Introduction Watermanagement (CT3011)

• Introduction Sanitary Engineering (CT3420)

• 4 courses in MSc• Drinking Water Technology (CT4471)

• Drinking Water Design (CT5520)

• Water Transport and Distribution (CT5550)

• Public Hygiene and Epidemiology (CT5420)

• MSc project



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CT4471 course

• Traditional F2F lecturing

• Blackboard

• Lecture notes

• Pdfs of ppt files

• Experiments in laboratory

• Excursions



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Challenges

• Better educational material for students

• Diverse inflow of students • different Dutch universities• different countries, so different background knowledge• different times in a year (“harde knip”)

• Individualization of education• MSc program should be more tailor made

• Make your lecture material accessible for everyone in the world



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3.OCW in 2007 - 2008



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TU Delft OpenCourseWareSince 2006

http://ocw.tudelft.nl/



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Drinking water OCW



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Collegerama



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Collegerama



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On-line assignments



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Evaluation

• Students• Lecturing material always available • Language problems/missing lecture/repeating lecture• Lecture hall capacity problems

• Lecturers• Quality improvement• Making use of Bb• Exposure of your course• Attraction LLL and foreign PhD students

• Other educational organizations• Make use of OCW

• Students (in paid employment)• Don’t have to follow every lecture in Delft

OCW = ACM + RL



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3.Virtual lectures 2009 - 2010



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MSc Watermanagement

LIVE: RECORDED:

- One time a year - Any time

- Only at TU Delft - Any place

- Only in English or Dutch - Any language

YEARLY UPDATE YEARLY

UPDATE ?

BlackBoardwith

Collegerama



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Overcrowded lecture room



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Multiple deliveries

• Yearly live delivery in class room (recorded)

• Recorded lectures in other semesters

Results

• More deliveries

• Better prepared students

• Less contact hours needed

• Less lecture rooms needed



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Courses abroad



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From static to dynamic courses

2008-2009

2010-2011



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iTunesU & YouTube



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Management and policy triggers

• Reduced length of study

• Better exam results

• Flexibile/multiple programming of courses

• Reduction of federal funding

• Staff can spend time on other projects

• Less infrastructure (lecture rooms & laboratory facilities)



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4.Virtual centre of excellence > 2010



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Ambition: Virtual educational centres of excellence



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Export grant economic affairs Bandung, South Africa and Mozambique



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Core coursesDeveloped by TU Delft

English language

Fundamental theoretical courses

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Waste

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Static coursesOnce published

Dynamic coursesYearly update

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Bah

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Applied informative courses

Localized coursesDeveloped by TU Delft & local university

Local language/local lecturer

Excursions Experiments Exercises

Eng

lish



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International educational material exchange

• Pool of lectures on different topics

• Selection of best basic lectures/course

material

• Enrichment for local components



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Modular in new OCW design



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Collegerama/Mediasite



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Virtual experiments



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Lectures with subtitles, auto translate



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Courses: 2 down, 4 to go

Finished:BSc courses• Watermanagement• Sanitary Engineering

To do:MSc courses



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Who is further joining?

Universities/countries: 8