moocs & accessibility

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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 GenerationInfrastructures 2

Drinking Water Treatment

FunctionalProgramming

Delft DesignApproach

Technology forBioproducts

Solving Complex Problems

ResponsibleInnovation

Treatment of Urban Sewage

Introduction toWater & Climate

Introduction toSolar Energy

AeronauticalEngineering

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: UntyingQuantum 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

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Use a MOOC• Course Content

Resources: 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

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New developments edX platformEdX 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 platformEdX 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 ToolsBetter student experience: New forum features

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Teaching & Learning ToolsFaster building: Easier publishing from studio

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Teaching & Learning Tools• Formation of cohorts• Group work• Peer Review

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edX MobileMOOC on your mobile phone

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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 distributionBased on IP-address last log in

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Data: Student behaviourWeekly student interaction with course material

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Use MOOCs on-campusSolar 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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Certificates• Honor code• ID verified• Professional Education• X-series

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Disruptive Development

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Disruptive Development

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Disruptive Development

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Disruptive Development

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Disruptive Development

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Disruptive Development

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Disruptive Development..

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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?