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 »
Tag: "edx"
Last year I blogged about the optimal video length for student engagement. The researchers have continued their work with these data.
They classified the 842 videos of 4 EdX courses in four categories:
a.) a recorded classroom lecture, b.) an instruc… more »
Currently EdX has 32 universities that are member of the xConsortium. EdX noticed a growing demand from foundations, NGO's, business and universities to offer courses on edx.org. After quiet some discussion with the consortium we have decided on a new m… more »
Harvard and MIT have made a suite of open source interactive visualization tools for the data of moocs. This is a follow up of their release of a series of working papers:
The technologies, dubbed Insights, draw upon near real-time, de-identified dat… more »
Earlier this week MIT and Harvard University announced the release of a series of working papers based on 17 online courses offered on the edX platform. The working paper series features detailed reports about individual courses; these reports reveal di… more »
This week the yearly world economic forum in Davos is taking place. One of the announcement is the launch of Forum Academy. They do this in a partnership with EdX and will use the Open.EdX platform:
Davos, Switzerland, 22 January 2014 – The World Eco… more »
2013 has been a busy year for me. Looking back at my blog it suprised me that I still managed to blog 101 posts (including this one) this year. That is one more than last year. I had the idea that I didn't blog enough this year. The image above shows a… more »
The last month and half I have been traveling a lot and busy with our new plans. That means that I'm a little behind on blogging. This blog post is a summary of interesting articles in the last month or so.
Design responses to MOOC completion rates I… 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 »
The registration has started for two new DelftX courses that start in March and April of 2014.
Aeronautical Engineering
The first course is Introduction to Aeronautical Engineering:
Discover the fascinating world of aviation by investigating aeronaut… more »