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Rothkrantz, L.J.M. (author)
Recently articles in Newspapers, University News Bulletins and Scientific Literature report about negative aspects of the wellbeing of students caused by COVID-19 epidemic. Half of the students have mental problems and don't participate in the teaching learning process anymore. In the Netherlands, Universities are surveyed by questionnaires,...
conference paper 2022
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Türkeli, Serdar (author), Schophuizen, M.J.F. (author)
In this article, we highlight the pressing need for integrating the windows of opportunities that digital transformation of education opens up with circular economy education to accelerate the achievements of sustainability outcomes. Circular economy transition, as a multi-scalar process, relates to several contexts, e.g., product, firm,...
journal article 2019
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Sandland, Jessica (author), Rodenbough, Philip (author)
Developing meaningful educational assessments in massive open online courses can be a significant challenge for course developers. In this report, we discuss a variety of strategies that we have used in Materials Science and Engineering MOOC development in order to assure that we are giving our students meaningful and rigorous assessment...
conference paper 2018
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Stracke, Christian M. (author), Hernández, Rocael (author), Delgado Kloos, Carlos (author), Del Mar Pérez Sanagustín, María (author), Moreira Teixeir, Antonio (author)
conference paper 2018
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Knoth, Sebastian (author), Lorenz, Anja (author), Rampelt, Florian (author)
MOOCs provided by Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) have the potential to open up education to a wider audience. By implementing appropriate quality assurance measures, they could also provide a first creditable step into the formal higher education system. Exploring the potential of credentialization and recognition of MOOCs was a major...
conference paper 2018
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Topolovec, Sara (author)
conference paper 2018
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The Open Education Global Conference is where the world meets to discuss how opening education helps us achieve universal access, equity, innovation and opportunity in education. The OE Global conference is the most internationally diverse conference devoted exclusively to open education, attracting researchers, practitioners, policy makers,...
conference 2018
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Davis, D.J. (author), Hauff, C. (author), Houben, G.J.P.M. (author)
Crowdsourcing has emerged as an effective method of scaling-up tasks previously reserved for a small set of experts. Accordingly, researchers in the large-scale online learning space have begun to employ crowdworkers to conduct research about large-scale, open online learning. We here report results from a crowdsourcing study (N=135) to evaluate...
journal article 2018
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Poquet, Oleksandra (author), Kovanović, Vitomir (author), de Vries, P. (author), Hennis, Thieme (author), Joksimović, Srećko (author), Gašević, Dragan (author), Dawson, Shane (author)
The capacity to foster interpersonal interactions in massive open online courses (MOOCs) has frequently been contested, particularly when learner interactions are limited to MOOC forums. The establishment of social presence-a perceived sense of somebody being present and "real"-is among the strategies to tackle the challenges of online...
journal article 2018
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Robal, T. (author), Zhao, Y. (author), Lofi, C. (author), Hauff, C. (author)
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have become an attractive opportunity for people around the world to gain knowledge and skills. Despite the initial enthusiasm of the first wave of MOOCs and the subsequent research efforts, MOOCs today suffer from retention issues: many MOOC learners start but do not finish. A main culprit is the lack of...
conference paper 2018
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Chen, G. (author), Davis, D.J. (author), Krause, Markus (author), Hauff, C. (author), Houben, G.J.P.M. (author)
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) aim to educate the world, especially learners from developing countries. While MOOCs are certainly available to the masses, they are not yet fully accessible. Although all course content is just clicks<br/>away, deeply engaging with a MOOC requires a substantial time commitment, which frequently becomes a...
conference paper 2017
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Bao, Yingying (author), Chen, G. (author), Hauff, C. (author)
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are a promising form of online education. However, the occurrence of academic dishonesty has been threatening MOOC certificates’ effectiveness as a serious tool for recruiters and employers. Recently, a large-scale study on the log traces from more than one hundred MOOCs created by Harvard and MIT has...
conference paper 2017
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Barbosa De Almeida Cabral, P.M. (author), van Valkenburg, W.F. (author), Dopper, S.M. (author)
In 2013 Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) started to offer Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) on the EdX platform. One of the main principles in the MOOC development process was to publish all educational resources under an open license (Creative Commons License) (Ouwehand, 2015). This aligned with TU Delft’s Open Access Policy. Another...
conference paper 2016
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Rothkrantz, L.J.M. (author)
Recently we observe an enormous grow of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). But it proves that the dropout rates of MOOCs are very high. One of the main causes are missing of necessary capabilities of students, inability of students to manage their study and a missing appropriate didactic model. In this paper we compare the dropout rates of...
conference paper 2016
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Rothkrantz, L.J.M. (author)
Recent years many universities are involved in development of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Unfortunately an appropriate didactic model for cooperated network learning is lacking. In this paper we introduce inquiry based learning as didactic model. Students are assumed to ask themselves questions interacting with a learning text. The...
journal article 2015
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Rothkrantz, L.J.M. (author)
It proves that many starting students at Technical Universities don’t have the required mathematical knowledge and abilities. This is caused by educational gaps at secondary schools, disinterest of students and a process of forgetting over time. At TUDelft a MOOC has been developed to train new students in mathematical calculus during the summer...
conference paper 2015
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Ihsen, S. (author), Jeanrenaud, Y. (author), De Vries, P. (author), Hennis, T.A. (author)
conference paper 2015
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van Valkenburg, W.F. (author), Kos, T. (author), Ouwehand, G.M. (author)
conference paper 2015
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Schuwer, Robert (author), Janssen, Ben (author), van Valkenburg, W.F. (author)
This article looks at massive open online courses (MOOCs) and the opportunities that they offer for higher education in the Netherlands. We look at what a MOOC actually is, the context of “open education”, and the discussion of the possibly disruptive impact of MOOCs on higher education.
book chapter 2013
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