This week I'm attending the Open Education Global Conference in Krakow. This is the yearly conference of the Open Education Consortium of which I'm member of the Board of Directors (and just got re-elected for 2 years). On the first day I presented… more »
Tag: "moocs"
It was a busy week with all the activities during the fifth Open Education Week. Every year the Open Education Week is a great way to share our thoughts about Open Education and inspire others to start with opening up their education. Here an overview of the activities I participated in. more »
Today Martijn Ouwehand and I are giving a workshop on Open Education on the European Student's Convention in Amsterdam. This event is being organised by ISO and LSVb, in cooperation with European Students' Union. In this workshop we give them an… more »
Today is the first day of the fifth Open Education Week, organised by the Open Education Consortium. Together with my team at Delft University of Technology we have created a full programme with interesting activities. Today I was asked to do an Action… more »
Op zondag staat Tegenlicht in het teken van de slimme universiteit. De aflevering gaat over de toekomst van de universiteit. Hieronder de promovideo van de uitzending: Rondom de uitzending worden regelmatige Tegenlicht Meet Ups georganiseerd.… more »
The European Commission has published a report on Validation of Non-formal MOOC-based Learning. The report is an outcome of the OpenCred study, which was carried out collaboratively by the ICT for Learning and Skills team of JRC IPTS, researchers of the University of Leicester, and consultants more »
Gisteren op het Next Higher Education congres hield Hans Schutte, DG op het ministerie van OCW, de keynote. Hierin ging hij in op alle veranderingen die aanstaande zijn binnen het hoger onderwijs ten gevolge van studievoorschot, strategische agenda en… more »
On Monday I attended the conference "Wow! Europe embraces MOOCs", organised by the HOME project (coordinated by EADTU). This conference is the follow up of the meeting in Porto last year. The Porto conference delivered the Porto Declaration on European… more »
Last year we participated in the survey "Comparing institutional MOOC strategies" organised by the HOME project. The survey is largely a repetition of the survey of last year. The main purpose last year was to create a starting point to address the… more »
Last week MIT published an interesting working paper about a new methode of cheating in open courses. They named the method “copying answers using multiple existences online” (CAMEO): In this method of cheating, a user creates multiple accounts, one of… more »