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TU Delft OpenCourseWare and Standards

Ir. Willem van Valkenburg

Who am I?

Willem van Valkenburg

Director TU Delft OpenCourseWare

Manager of TU Delft VLE (Blackboard)

Projectleader TU Delft Mobile

http://twitter.com/wfvanvalkenburghttp://www.e-learn.nlhttp://nl.linkedin.com/in/wfvanvalkenburg

Agenda

What is OpenCourseWare?

Usage of OpenCourseWare

Goals

Use of standards

What is OpenCourseWare?

MIT started in 2001 with two main objectives:

Provide free, searchable, access to MIT's course materials for educators, students, and self-learners around the world.

Create an efficient, standards-based model that other institutions may emulate to openly share and publish their own course materials."

What is OCW?

An OpenCourseWare is a free and open digital publication of high quality educational materials, organized as courses for faculty, students, and self-learners throughout the world.

An ocw is a collection of high-quality learning materials presented in the form of courses

An ocw is not a distance-learning initiative: there are no degrees granted and in most cases no student/faculty interactions

OCW materials are there for the taking and for transformation.

OCW part of the Open Movement

OCW is only one type of Open Educational Resource (OER).

OERs are only one type of Open Content.

We have much to share with each other.

Open Content

Open Educational Resources

OCW

TU Delft OpenCourseWare

You find it at OCW.TUDelft.nl

Started in October 2007

Build with Typo3-CMS

Almost 50 courses online

Watermanagement

Microelectronics

Offshore Engineering

Nanoscience

Biomedical Engineering

Sustainable Development

Transportation and Planning

Media and Knowledge Engineering

Engineering and Policy Analysis

TPM Minors and electives

Product Design

Marine Technology

Geomatics

Mathematics

Sustainable processes and Energy Technologies

Information Skills

Technische Informatica

"TU Delft is dedicated to finding sustainable solutions for social problems. Theuniversity's core tasks
include delivering know-how and building
knowledge networks in an international context. OpenCourseWareis one of the means by which
we are contributing to this mission"

Jakob Fokkema, Former Rector Magnificus

Users of OCW

Source: http://ocw.mit.edu/about/site-statistics/

Usage of OCW

USE SCENARIO

% OF USE

Educators

Improve personal knowledge

31%

Learn new teaching methods

23%

Incorporate OCW materials into a course

20%

Find reference material for my students

15%

Develop curriculum for my department or school

8%

Students

Enhance personal knowledge

46%

Complement a current course

34%

Plan a course of study

16%

Self
Learners

Explore areas outside my professional field

40%

Review basic concepts in my professional field

18%

Prepare for future course of study

18%

Keep current with developments in my field

17%

Complete a work-related project or task

4%

Source: http://ocw.mit.edu/about/site-statistics/

Goals

How can we improve the discoverability and reuse, of OCW courses?
OCW Consortium Technology Committee 2006-2007

Source: http://www.slideshare.net/bmuramatsu/oer-search

Something that was easy to implement

That didnt require a lot of technical knowledge, or wading through metadata specifications

By using web technologies we wouldnt isolate the metadata/content

This wouldnt just be for OCW ConsortiumIt wouldnt be an education-only solutionBut it would also enable content syndication with the web-at-large

Discoverability of courses

using Dublin Core via RSS

Relatively simple to implement

Dublin Core as a metadata element set

DC has a base level of descriptive metadata, and it could describe an OCW course

DC was understandable to novices

IEEE LOM is fairly complex and would provide more description, but we felt the likelihood of getting lots of sites doing high quality metadata was low

Federating OCW Collections

OCW Consortium

Ocwconsortium.org

OCW Search

Ocwsearch.com

OER Commons

Oercommons.org

OAI-PMH

Protocol for Metadata Harvesting

Metadata on Course or Object?

EduCommons supports OAI-PMH

Connects TU Delft OCW with Wikiwijs

Re-use

Complete course

OpenLearn offers:

Audio / Video

iTunesU and YouTube

Image Library

http://ocw.jhsph.edu/imageLibrary/

OCW.tudelft.nl

Willem van Valkenburg

w.f.vanvalkenburg@tudelft.nl

www.e-learn.nltwitter.com/wfvanvalkenburg

Presentation available on www.slideshare.net/wfvanvalkenburg

18-03-11

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