#OpenEd13 - Pushing EdX to be Open

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Pushing EdX to be Open Willem van Valkenburg

Delft University of Technology

@wfvanvalkenburg


Willem van Valkenburg

Coordinator TU Delft Open Education Team

Projectleader EU-project OCW in the European HE context

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Board member of the OpenCourseWare Consortium


Please attribute TU Delft / Willem van Valkenburg

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Agenda

•What is Open?•Delft and Open•Edx and Open


What is Open?

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CC-BY Alan Levine: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cogdog/7155294657/in/pool-openandclosed

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• Free to Reuse• Free to Revise• Free to Remix• Free to

Redistribute

David Wiley 4Rs framework: http://www.opencontent.org/definition/Image CC By Sunshine Connelly. Original image CC By RecycleThis

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http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lolly_sticks_with_text.jpg

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Delft and Open

Image is still from the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLiNzrIubF0 CC-BY TU Delft

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Education

Research

ICT• OpenCourseWa

re• DelftX• iTunesU

• Open Data• Open Access• Open Journals

• Open Source Software

• Open API


Online and Campus Education

Massive Open Online Courses

(MOOCs)

Open Course Ware (OCW)

Online Distance Education

Campus Education

• Learning Activities & Course Materials

• Free• Enrolled students only, massive

numbers• Bachelors Level• Certificate of Completion

• Course Materials• Free• Big Exposure, Worldwide

audience• Both Bachelor and Master

level• No interaction with faculty• No accredited certificate

• Learning Activities & Course Materials

• Paid enrollment• Enrolled students only, limited

numbers• Master level• Accredited Course Certificate• Full Master Degree

• On-campus Education• Top-class education and research

facilities• World famous university library• Active student societies• Great opportunities to participate in

special student projects


OpenCourseWare

• Started in 2007• More than 120 courses online• Daily visits > 800• Courses from Bachelor and Master

Source: OpenCourseWare Consortium: www.ocwconsortium.org

http://www.ocwconsortium.org/


DelftX Courses


DelftX MOOCs withOpen License

• The courses are licensed under a Creative Commons License CC-BY-NC-SA.

• Videos on Youtube have CC-BY license.• Videos also available as download in multiple formats (360p, 720p, 1080p).

• Slides are made available as PDF. (ppt are

too big)

• Textbook is copyright restricted.• Questions are not downloadable (yet).


Why EdX?

• Consortium of top universities• Focus on improving campus education• It is not-for-profit• Focus on research of innovation in education

• It has a focus on Open


EdX and Open


EdX and Open

•Open Source•Open Content•Open Standards

Image: CC-BY Marc Wathieu:http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcwathieu/8559628228/

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OPEN SOURCE → HIGHLIGHTS

•What Have We Open Sourced?•edX’s Learning Management System (LMS);•Studio, a course authoring tool;•XBlock, an API for integrating interactive learning objects;•machine grading API’s;•Analytics framework, edinsights.



•The License Itself•Our platform is released under the Affero General Public License (AGPL) version 3•Any modifications or derivative works need to be made available under the same license•Contributions back to edX require a contributor agreement to be signed that gives us the ability to relicense (including commercially)



•How to Get Involved•Visit http://code.edx.org/ and join edX-code mailing list (linked from above site)•Initiative from David Glance:http://openedxdev.wordpress.com/

http://code.edx.org/

http://code.edx.org/

http://openedxdev.wordpress.com/




Who joined EdX with development?

EdX Universities


Who is using Open.EdX?

Queen Rania Foundation for Education and Development

Edraak platform for Arabic MOOCsThere are more: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/edx-code/aAPPfQ_v7AY/t_h0F40DlF0J

http://www.edraak.org/

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/edx-code/aAPPfQ_v7AY/t_h0F40DlF0J




Open Content in EdX

•TU Delft is the first and only one to do this.

•Currently 4 courses announced.


Open Standards

• “The problem with open standards is that there are so many of them.”

• University of Queensland has contributed an integration with Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI)

https://www.edx.org/alert/edx-builds-community-developers/944




What is next?

•Technically support Open Content.•Also courses from other universities with an open license.

•Extending support for open standards.


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