A structured approach to online education of future HVAC and energy professionals

The HVAC sector is essential to realize the energy transition and is facing numerous challenges like educating enough HVAC engineers to carry out the task and being able to integrate knowledge from the construction, energy, IT and health sectors and to cope with rapid technological changes. The availability of structured and easy-to-follow...

MOOC-Rec: Instructional Video Clip Recommendation for MOOC Forum Questions

In this work, we address the information overload issue that learners in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) face when attempting to close their knowledge gaps via the use of MOOC discussion forums. To this end, we investigate the recommendation of one-minute-resolution video clips given the textual similarity between the clips’ transcripts...

The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on a MOOC in Aerospace Structures and Materials

In March 2020 COVID-19 brought the world and with that aviation to a standstill. Also in March 2020, the third run of the DelftX MOOC Introduction to Aerospace<br/>Structures and Materials started on edX. This MOOC generally attracts a mixture of young aviation enthusiasts (often students) and aviation professionals. Given the large interest...

Designing and implementing gamification: GaDeP, gamifire, and applied case studies

Gamification aims at addressing problems in various fields such as the high dropout rates, the lack of engagement, isolation, or the lack of personalisation faced by Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). Even though gamification is widely applied, not only in MOOCs, only few cases are meaningfully designed and empirically tested. The...

Rethinking Planning Education using Massive Open Online Courses:the Case of Rethink the City

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) are becoming a popular educational tool in different disciplines. Urban planning education is no exception and new MOOCs are being released every year. Despite this, it is still not clear how this new learning experience is being developed, delivered, and impacting upon planning education. This article sheds...

Pilot integrating visual platform in online courses

Being able to share visual course assignments and provide and receive personal feedback is essential in most studio design courses of Delft University of Technology. With the rapid growth of online and blended education teachers are confronted with the challenge of maintaining the same quality for this aspect of their teaching as in traditional...

Improving the Online Design Education Experience

Design education usually takes place in a studio setting, in which visual and spatial artefacts are produced, shared, improved, presented and commented. This specific setting comes with qualitative properties that allow for situated learning with object-oriented focus and interaction, combined with a rich collegial context in which ideas can...

How Inverse Blended Learning can Turn Up Learning with MOOCs?

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have been a hype in technology<br/>enhanced learning systems the last couple of years. The promises behind<br/>MOOCs stand on delivering free and open education to the public, as well as<br/>training a large criterion of students. However, MOOCs clashes severely with<br/>students dropout which by then forced...

MicroMasters: the pursuit of the Holy Grail in online learning

In the MOOC world new concepts hatch every month, trying to find the Holy Grail of online learning. Last year edX adopted the new MIT concept of a MicroMasters credential: a series of graduate level courses offered by top universities to advance their career. The credential is credit-eligible and can accelerate a Master’s Degree if the learner...

A MOOC on control of flooding in Prague

The paper is about the development of a MOOC on the flooding of the river Vltava in the Czech country. The MOOC has been designed as a serious game. Students from all over the world are invited to take part in the management team to reduce the negative impact of the flooding. The MT has to take decisions about evacuation, building barriers and...

Evaluating Automatic Spreadsheet Metadata Extraction on a Large Set of Responses from MOOC Participants

Spreadsheets are popular end-user computing applications and one reason behind their popularity is that they offer a large degree of freedom to their users regarding the way they can structure their data. However, this flexibility also makes spreadsheets difficult to understand. Textual documentation can address this issue, yet for supporting...

The MOOC-ability of design education

In the past three years, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have become an important new way for universities to reach out to possible matriculates, life long learners and alumni. Although MOOCs already cover a vast amount of subjects and curricula, it is remarkable to ascertain the lack of Architectural Design courses on the main platforms...

Making MOOCS

The first two Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) were completed late last year, and the sequel is undergoing intensive preparation. The pioneers look back. “To meet the deadlines, we even made recordings at midnight