OCW Seminar Jasper Verberk

OCW Seminar TU Delft

User experiences in working with OCW

Dr.ir. J.Q.J.C. Verberk

09-10-2009

Challenge the future

DelftUniversity ofTechnology

OCW Seminar TU Delft

Just some questions

• Are there lecturers in the audience?

• Are you using Blackboard?

• Are you using OCW?

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MSc Watermanagement

2 years all English 120 ECTS

Specialisations:Water cycle : Urban Water cycle :- Hydrology - Drinking water engineering- Geohydrology - Urban water drainage- Water resources management - Waste water treatment

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Waste water

Sanitary Engineering

Education and Research for the ‘urban water cycle’

Drinking water Sewerage

Surface water

Ground water Urban area

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Drinking water engineering• Drinking water production & distribution without

chlorine• Multiple barrier treatment• Best drinking water in the world

• Only one university in the Netherlands to study drinking water engineering

• Very strong links with water sector

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Drinking Water Education

• 2 courses in BSc• Introduction Watermanagement (CT3011)

• Introduction Sanitary Engineering (CT3420)

• 4 courses in MSc• Drinking Water Technology (CT4471)

• Drinking Water Design (CT5520)

• Water transport and distribution (CT5550)

• Public hygiene and epidemiology (CT5420)

• MSc project (website)

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CT4471 course (2006)

• Traditional F2F lecturing

• Experiments in laboratory

• Blackboard

• Lecture notes

• Pdfs of ppt files

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Challenges• Better educational material for students

• Diverse inflow of students • different Dutch universities• different countries, so different background

knowledge• different times in a year (“harde knip”)• minors, necessary to offer courses 2 times a year

• Individualization of education• MSc program should be more tailor made

• Make your lecture material accessible for everyone in the world

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Inflow students (since 2006)

Origin MSc students Sanitary Engineering• 5-8 BSc Civil Engineering• 2-4 BSc TU other faculties TU Delft• 2-4 SOCRATES students (1/2 year)• 6-10 International students (Europe, China)• 2-4 High schools in the Netherlands• 2-4 Dutch water companies (paid employment)

MSc Drinking Water Engineering• 6-8 students MSc Drinking water• MSc thesis project (MSc research)• Support PhD research

MSc SE

MSc DW

PhD DW

BSc CE

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2006: Start of OCW

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www.drinkwater.tudelft.nl

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Drinking water OCW

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Collegerama

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Collegerama

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On-line assignments

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Instruction videos of experiments

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Also with foreign subtitles

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OCW = Blackboard• OCW course is making use of Bb layout

(familiarity)• Same functionality as Bb course, however

• Supported by Collegerama

• Streaming video in combination with

Powerpoint

• On-line assignments

• Laboratory instruction videos

• Lectures once a year Always available• Only in Delft Everywhere available

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Evaluation• Students

• Lecturing material always available (any time, any place, any language)

• Language problems/missing lecture/repeating lecture

• Lecturers• Quality improvement• Making use of Bb• Exposure of your course• Attraction LLL and foreign PhD students

• Other educational organizations• Make use of OCW

• Students (in paid employment)• Don’t have to follow every lecture in Delft

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Use by other institutes & companies

• International universities• AdeKUS (Surinam), ITB Bandung (Indonesia), ICE WaRM

consortium (Australia), Egypt

• Visitors from 173 countries• The Netherlands

• Saxion Hogeschool (Enschede), Hanzehogeschool

Groningen, Hogeschool Amsterdam• Drinking water companies

• Oasen, Vitens, Dunea, Evides, PWN, VEWIN

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Further development• Making use of new tools

• Blended delivery mode, • Courses in smaller modules• VODcasts, YouTube

• BSc courses in English language/minors• PR

• Website• International Water Organization (IWA)• Alumni network

• Convince other lecturers to use OCW

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Possible drawbacks• All your lecture material is available and

accessible for everyone in the world, give away for free?

• What if there is a mistake in a presentation?• Copyright of lecture material• Everyone can see how you give lectures (also

when you have a bad day)• Everyone can hear how you struggle using

the English language• Student will not show up anymore during

regular lectures

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MSc Watermanagement

LIVE: RECORDED:- One time a year - Any time- Only at TU Delft - Any place- Only in English or Dutch - Any language

YEARLY UPDATE YEARLY UPDATE ?

BlackBoardwith

Collegerama

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MSc Watermanagement

LIVE: RECORDED:- Normal students - Normal students- Part time students - Part time students- International students - International

students

- Prepared students- Associated

universities

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BlackBoardwith

Collegerama

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Just some questions

• Are there lecturers in the audience?

• Are you using Blackboard?

• Are you going to use OCW?

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Thank You for Your Time.

Questions? Contact: J.Q.J.C.Verberk@TUDelft.nl

www.drinkwater.tudelft.nl