Topic Oriented Open Learning (TOOL) platforms: a novel approach for open education – experiences of two initiatives

Independently and unknowingly of each other, in two different subject fields, open learning platforms arose, that address similar needs and have similar set-ups, and differ from existing open education formats such as Open Educational Resources (OER) repositories and MOOCs. They appear to form a specific new type of platform, that we dubbed ...

Building a Culture of Open Pedagogy from the Platform Up

New York City College of Technology (City Tech) is one of 24 colleges comprising the City University of New York (CUNY), the United States' largest urban public higher education institution legislatively mandated as the "vehicle for the upward mobility of the disadvantaged in the City of New York."1 Fulfilling this mission is vital to the...

What have they done with the MOOCs?! The impact of MOOCs on Campus Education

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...

OpenCourseWare in the European Higher Education Context: How to make use of its full potential for virtual mobility

Final report of EU-funded project on OpenCourseWare in Europe. The focus of the project was the creation of preconditions for a strong European OCW framework. A stronger framework would also mean closer cooperation between European institutes, which could result in mutual use of materials and even joint degrees. In our view, a better functioning...

The Future of Delft Open Courseware - How to build a sustainable environment for Open Educational Resources

Delft University of Technology started publishing some of her course materials online from September 2007 in a project called Delft Open Courseware (OCW). This report discusses the future of this project, describes important issues that should be addressed in order to become sustainable, and ends with an advice on how this can be done.