E-learn Weblog of Willem van Valkenburg

We continue to develop new MOOCs as part of our Open & Online Learning programme. This fall we have 9 new MOOCs that will start, next to the reruns of 16 other MOOCs. In total we have 64 MOOCs announced and a couple more in development. more »

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Yesterday it was my turn to do an action lab on MOOCs. The subtitle was "everything you want to know about MOOCs". For my it was also a good activity to get all our activities together. And it is impressive. We have 16 MOOCs finished, 4 are running… more »

in the fall of 2013 I published the first version of our DelftX MOOC Journey based on the creation of our first two MOOCs. Now we have finished the delivery of many more MOOCs we have updated the journey. Suprisingly, the journey was mostly still very… more »

Last week, edX announced their new high school initiative: 26 MOOCs specifically geared to the needs and interests of high school students around the world. As edX CEO Anant Agarwal wrote in the announcement: Studies show that nearly 60 percent of… more »

For the promotion of our MOOCs we have created a new video. I'm very satisfied with the result. It  provides a good image on the impact our courses have on people's live. Please take a look: In 2014 we will launch at least 8 new courses. Two courses… more »

As part of the Open Education Week we organised an Open.EdX hackathon. According to Wikipedia a hackathon (also known as a hack day, hackfest or codefest) is an event in which computer programmers and others involved in software development, including g… more »

The Orange Carpet Award is a yearly award for projects that promote internationalisation of higher education institutes in the Netherlands. Each year there are 3 projects nominated by a jury. This year the nomimated projects were: Maastricht School o… more »

The first two MOOCs of DelftX are about to finish. This is a good moment to publish our MOOC Journeys we have created in the past months to help teachers and course designers with the development of their moocs. more »

On the third day of the conference I had to do my own presentation. The title 'Pushing EdX to be Open' I submitted half a year ago, still did the job, the room was filled. The slides of my presentation are below. As soon as the video is available I wil… more »