E-learn Weblog of Willem van Valkenburg

At the OCWC Global Conference two courses of TU Delft OpenCourseWare have received a OCWC CourseWare award. These awards recognize outstanding course materials in two categories, Video & Multimedia and Text & Illustrations.  Five awards will be given in each category.

Delft Design Guide received the award in the Text & Illustrations category. Introduction to Aerospace Engineering I received the award in the category Video & Multimedia.

The credits go to the responsible teachers. For Delft Design Guide that are Annemiek van Boeijen en Jaap Daalhuizen en for Aerospace Engineering it is Jacco Hoekstra.

Today I got elected as board member of OCW Consortium on behave of Delft University of Technology. It is a great honour to be board member for the Consortium. I have attended many board meeting since 2008, but now I'm also allowed to vote.

The Consortium is the only international un-biased organisation on open education. Especially in times that a lot of people are talking about open education (they call them moocs), it is important that there is an organisation that keeps emphasizing OPENNESS.

MOOCs without openness are just education and this won't bring us much further in our mission to increase the access to education worldwide.

Anka Mulder is officially stepping down as President and board member of the Consortium. After 5 years her 3 terms have ended. She will stay involved with Open Education at Delft University of Technology.

This year the OCWC Global conference is in Bali, one of the many islands of Indonesia. Yesterday there was the official launch of OER Indonesia. Today the keynotes give a good insight in the developments of OER in Indonesia.

And I'm impressed. OER is really helping education to get to the next level, from universities to the government. In this article by Prof. Richardus Eko Indrajit he gives a good overview of the activities in Indonesia.

Last week I was in Cambridge (UK) for the 2012 OpenCourseWare Global Conference combined with the UK OER12 conference. Below is a list of online articles, blogs and others that have been published (if you miss an article, please leave a comment or tweet):

• Markus Deimann: Inspirations from Cambridge 2012 #cam12
• Gabi Witthaus: The OER university: from vision to reality
• Joe Wilson: #Cam12 Innovation and Impact Open Educational Resources
• David Kernohan: Bricking against the clicks?
• Laura Czerniewicz: Open Education: part of the broader open scholarship terrain
• Lorna Campbell: #cam12 Keynotes, backchannels and undercurrents
• New York Times (Don Guttenplan): Building Schools Out of Clicks, Not Bricks
• Robert Schuwer: Blog Cambridge 2012 congres over OER: dag 3, 18 april 2012 (in Dutch)
• Robert Schuwer: Blog Cambridge 2012 congres over OER: diner pensant, 16 april 2012 (in Dutch)
• Hester Jelgerhuis: Blog Cambridge 2012 congres over OER: dag 1, 16 april 2012 (in Dutch)
• Hester Jelgerhuis: Blog Cambridge 2012 congres over OER: dag 2, 17 april 2012 (in Dutch)
• Hester Jelgerhuis: Blog Cambridge 2012 congres over OER: pre-conference workshop, 15 april 2012 (in Dutch)
• Jos Rikers: UNESCO Chairs in OER at OCWC Cambridge 2012 16-18 April
• Ria Jacobi: Mobiliteit en OER (in Dutch)
• Vicki McGarvey: Cambridge 2012
• Laura Czerniewicz: Openness at the University of Cape Town
• Una Daly: A Day at Open University, UK
• Sailor.org: Innovation and Impact in Cambridge
• Guardian: Open for business? Why universities must collaborate on OpenCourseWare
• Jenny Gray: Thoughts after OpenCourseware Global 2012
• Yvette Adams: Cambridge 2012: Innovation and Impact - Report back
• Lorna Campbell: Open Education in Europe - SURF’s “diner pensant”
• Education Development Unit (FHS): Conference Pens, Gunslingers And Business Cards
• Emily Puckett Rodgers: Drop the ‘e’ get on with the learning

There is also an archive of all the tweets and the pictures I have taken. Other pictures are on flickr.

The wordcloud is CC-BY mhawksey.