Online masters Aerospace Engineering TU Delft @SEFI

The First Steps towards an Online Master in Aerospace Engineering

G.N. Saunders-SmitsR. De BreukerJ.M.A.M. HolFaculty of Aerospace EngineeringL.F.M. MebusOC Focus, Education & Student Affairs

2012:

Why do this?

• Improve quality of education• More and other students (also LLL)

• Stay at the top by keeping up, if not leading from the front with new educational developments

• Provides great opportunity to enhance profile of Aerospace Engineering both as a world-class educator and as a world-class research partner

• Central project manager • Project divisions:

• Teaching Model• Course Development• Administration/Organization• ICT Infrastructure• Marketing Strategy• Legal / Quality Assurance • Business model

Educational advisors1-1, workshops, course

NewMedia Center

• Faculty Project manager

• Lecturers• TA’s

How?

Online Master Courses in Aerospace Engineering

Quality

• 6 courses

• Identical learning objectives & content, different delivery

• Same admission requirements, also for individual courses

• Exception for certain target groups based on previously acquired competencies (admission committee)

• Test protocols

Organisational

• Students apply at TU Delft

• Payment per course or per year

• Successful completion course: TU Delft certificate

• MSc degree can consist of series of certificates

• Student Service Desk online education

General Teaching Model

• Activating students – assignments, formative testing• Social and academic integration – motivation• High quality learning materials• Constructive Alignment• Structure – deadlines, live events etc..• Feedback

Online course ingredients

• Blackboard = VLE• Content divided into modules• Knowledge clips or recorded lectures• Selftests• (group) assignments – feedback• Online discussions• Q and A sessions

• Lab work – online / distance when possible• Assessment

• Assignments• Oral exam via webconference• Digital assessment (proctored)

AE Online Master Course Buckling of Structures: Course Design

AE Buckling of Structures

• Course schedule (suggested)• Introduction • Icebreaker: Introduce yourself• Weblectures (screencapture, video message intro)• Readings• Assignments• Working together is suggested, not obligatory• Questions via discussionboard, weekly online question

hour, Twitter, e-mail)• Weekly message by lecturer• Online oral exam about assignments

Future

As funding comes available and expertise is developed gradually bring more ASM courses online

Explore possibility offering entire MSc track online

Act as consultant to other tracks in their possible future online ambitions

• More:

- Paper about try-out last year- Contact now: Flyer /demo- Contact later: Gillian Saunders /Linda Mebus