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PM-EDUCATION @TU DELFT
MOOC EXPERIENCES
Prof Dr Hans Bakker Dr Ir Marian Bosch-Rekveldt
23 Februari 2017 - IPMA Onderwijsdag
Content
• Who are we?
• Overview project management education portfolio • Bsc • Msc • Post graduate
• Going online
• Our MOOC experiences
Who are we?
• Section Infrastructure Design and Management within Civil Engineering and Geosciences
Current PhDs with topics related to PM
• Jules Verlaan – Depreciation of Infrastructure • Leonie Koops – Collaboration / Project success • Afshin Jalali – Complexity / Agile PM • Elizabet de Graaf – Decision making / Soft skills • Cigdem Demirel – Dynamic Contracting • Joannes Visser – Integral Design • Erfan Houseini – Risk management • Liu Yan – Database project learning • Maedeh Molaei – Database complex projects • Drewes Hielema – Experience from an EPC • Wout Dillmann – Decreasing productivity in projects • Rene Hombergen – Choices for program mgmt
Portfolio Project Management Education
• BSc • Minor: Project Management from Nano to Mega (~80 students)
• MSc
• Project Management track in 4TU Master Construction Management Engineering (~200 students)
• Management & Design annotation MSc Civil Engineering (~10 students)
• MSc course Management of Engineering Projects
• Intensive course project management, mixed audience (students & professionals, ~40 students)
Minor Project Management from Nano to Mega
• Success factors for managing technical projects • Work in project teams • ‘Fit-for-purpose’ project management
Terminology
MOOC ProfEd
Massive Open Online Course
Professional Education
Thousands of participants
Hundreds of participants
Free unless you want a certificate
Fee (~250-400)
~40 hours of work
~28 hours of work
~BSc level
~MSc (+) level
Learning environment: EdX
Our Portfolio of Project Management Education
BSc
MSc
Post Academic
Minor PM
CME courses
MEP course
MOOC PM
ProfEds Project
Complexity Project Finance
MOOC: From idea to realisation
• EdX platform
• Video lectures
• (Group) assignment(s)
• Interviews practitioners
• Study materials
MOOC: What they will learn
• To draft a project execution plan • How to successfully work together in a specialized project
team • How to select an appropriate project manager • The importance of the front-end phases to create a
successful project • How projects are successfully managed in different sectors
and contexts
• Week 0: Welcome and course overview • Week 1: The need for and importance of project management • Week 2: Organizing the team • Week 3: Opportunity framing • Week 4: The project assurance plan • Week 5: Selecting the contracting strategy • Week 6: Time and cost estimates • Week 7: Bringing it together in the project execution plan
MOOC: The content in 7 weeks
MOOC: some facts & observations
• ~11.000 subscribed (280 ID-verified), ~2000 really started, of which ~300 really active throughout the course!
• 200 passed the course successfully (150 ID-verified)
• Weekly assignments (both individual & team) helped the students to stay active
From the evaluation
MOOC: our experiences & lessons learned
• It is great when the plan comes together!
• Front-end loading crucial…!
• Challenges with the technical system / group work
• Our internal edX team complimented us on the structured and succesful project management approach we followed in developing the course
Outlook
• MOOC re-run October 2017 (with minor adjustments)
• ProfEds (4wks) • Mastering project complexity (May 2017) • Project finance (June 2017)
