TU Delft Open Educational Resources (OER) Policy

As a university committed to blended learning and open education, TU Delft encourages and supports staff and students to use, create and publish Open Educational Resources (OER) to enhance the quality of teachers’ and students’ experience, provided that resources used are fit-for-purpose and relevant. The use, creation and publication of Open...

Innovation opportunities for academic libraries to support teaching through open education: A case study at TU Delft, the Netherlands

Opportunities for academic libraries to enrich their products and services through facilitating open education (OE) in higher education are presented in an overview of good practices. A case study of open textbook publishing was performed at TU Delft to study how these products and services could stimulate educators to adopt OE. A simplified...

“Kallipos”, the first open academic textbooks initiative during the years of crisis in Greece and its sustainable continuation

In this paper, we explore the challenges towards the adoption/use of Open Educational Resources (OER) within the Greek Higher Education (HE). To achieve this objective, first we present “Kallipos”, a large-scale open access textbook publishing initiative that was launched in 2013 by the Hellenic Academic Libraries Link (HEAL-Link) consortium....

Open, online, flexible and technology-enhanced: understanding the educational business models of tomorrow

It's in your pocket: A MOOC about programming for kids and the role of OER in teaching and learning contexts

Programming is considered as an essential skill in the 21st century. Visual programming languages and age-appropriate development environments allow an easy entry into this field. Nevertheless, it is very challenging to bring those skills in a very short time frame to schools, to their teachers, and to school children themselves. Therefore, Graz...

Conceptualising OEP: A review of theoretical and empirical literature in Open Educational Practices

Conceptualisations of open educational practices (OEP) vary widely, ranging from those centred primarily on the creation and use of open educational resources (OER) to broader definitions of OEP, inclusive of but not necessarily focused on OER. The latter, referred to in this paper as expansive definitions of OEP, encompass open content but also...