https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/making-blended-education-work/1Part of the EMBED project is the development and running of a MOOC about blended education and using the EMBED framework. Last week the enrolment opened on FutureLearn for our MOOC… more »
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This week I was invited to speak the 9th international e-learning conference of the Thailand Cyber University project. The theme of the conference was MOOCs and beyond. Normally I don’t hear or read a lot about the developments around MOOCs and online… more »
One of our MOOC rockstar professors, Felienne Hermans, was awarded today the SURF Education Award at the SURF onderwijsdagen in Rotterdam. The SURF Education Awards are presented annually to changemakers in educational innovation across four… more »
After a great tour around South-Afrika, I attended the Open Education Global Conference 2017 in Cape Town. Off course, I have to be there as board member of the Open Education Consortium, but I really enjoy this conference. I attend many open education conferences and this is by far the most global open education conference. More than 200 participants from 47 countries. In this blog some observations from me. more »
Next week it is time for the 5th Open Education Week. Again we are organising some events in Delft. Both events are on Friday 31st of March. In the morning we start with the Delft Data Science Seminar and afterwards is our Open Science Seminar. Delft… more »
Today TU Delft Solar Energy professor Arno Smets received the first edX Prize for Exceptional Contributions in Online Teaching and Learning at the edX conference in Paris. Arno is the professor of two of our MOOCs: Solar Energy and Sustainable Energy.… more »
The purpose of this work is to investigate how self-regulating skills can be enhanced by encouraging metacognition and reflection in MOOC learners by means of social comparison. To this end, we developed the Learning Tracker, an interactive widget that could be integrated in a learner dash- board aimed at learners. The Learning Tracker allows MOOC learners to compare their learning behaviour to that of previous graduates of the same MOOC, which we named successful learners. more »
Last month researchers from the University of Washington published an article about MOOC usage for professional workforce development outcomes in Colombia, the Philippines, & South Africa. There were a couple of news sites that used this article to say… more »
There are many different ways to communicate content by video. To provide teachers and course developers some guidance and inspiration, we have collected multiple videos and created three menu items: Recording locations: where to go? Presentation… more »
Last week Coursera announced that they updated the enrolment and grading option of their courses. No longer you can have free access to the full course: Starting today, when you enroll in certain courses, you’ll be asked to pay a fee if you’d like to… more »