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(2017)
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Pedro Barbosa de Almeida Cabral, Nelson Ribeiro Jorge, Willem van Valkenburg
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 is admitted.
Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) decided to join this new development after an extensive elaboration on TU Delft’s online course design, educational and assessment policies, involvement of stakeholders inside and outside the organization and the underlying business model.
The aim of this paper is to describe the lessons learnt in this process (adoption, development and running of the MicroMaster), its implications on TU Delft’s ambitions in open and online learning and the effect on campus programme admission and enrolment. This paper will focus on the Solar Energy Engineering MicroMasters, a programme of four MOOCs and a capstone project. Learners following the whole
programme and successfully finish their exam receive a MicroMasters credential. Learners who apply to the Master of Science program Sustainable Energy Technology (SET) or the Master of Science program Electrical Engineering (track: Electrical Power Engineering) holding this credential, can send a formal ECTS waiver request to get accepted for part of the on campus Master Programme at TU Delft.
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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 is admitted.
Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) decided to join this new development after an extensive elaboration on TU Delft’s online course design, educational and assessment policies, involvement of stakeholders inside and outside the organization and the underlying business model.
The aim of this paper is to describe the lessons learnt in this process (adoption, development and running of the MicroMaster), its implications on TU Delft’s ambitions in open and online learning and the effect on campus programme admission and enrolment. This paper will focus on the Solar Energy Engineering MicroMasters, a programme of four MOOCs and a capstone project. Learners following the whole
programme and successfully finish their exam receive a MicroMasters credential. Learners who apply to the Master of Science program Sustainable Energy Technology (SET) or the Master of Science program Electrical Engineering (track: Electrical Power Engineering) holding this credential, can send a formal ECTS waiver request to get accepted for part of the on campus Master Programme at TU Delft.
Last year, when we presented the OLE at the 2015 EDEN Conference in Barcelona, we were still at an early stage of its development, collecting fundamental background to support it and feedback from online learning experts. Although we only had a collection of ideas translated into 8 principles, it was clear that the model needed to be flexible in order to accommodate many educational scenarios that coexist among TU Delft’s Faculties, but with a clear and useful purpose to help improve the quality of our online education (Jorge, Dopper & van Valkenburg, 2015). This paper describes how the OLE is applied in practice.The main goal of the OLE is to improve the quality of our online education by setting course design and development principles to support course teams. At the same time, the OLE can be used as a tool to promote reflection before the course starts to set expectations, and in the end to evaluate and plan improvements for the next run. In the next sections we’ll describe the OLE in both ways – as course design principles (guidelines) and as a tool (the radar graph).
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Last year, when we presented the OLE at the 2015 EDEN Conference in Barcelona, we were still at an early stage of its development, collecting fundamental background to support it and feedback from online learning experts. Although we only had a collection of ideas translated into 8 principles, it was clear that the model needed to be flexible in order to accommodate many educational scenarios that coexist among TU Delft’s Faculties, but with a clear and useful purpose to help improve the quality of our online education (Jorge, Dopper & van Valkenburg, 2015). This paper describes how the OLE is applied in practice.The main goal of the OLE is to improve the quality of our online education by setting course design and development principles to support course teams. At the same time, the OLE can be used as a tool to promote reflection before the course starts to set expectations, and in the end to evaluate and plan improvements for the next run. In the next sections we’ll describe the OLE in both ways – as course design principles (guidelines) and as a tool (the radar graph).
In early 2014, the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) started an innovation program with the aim to respond even more effectively to recent developments in open and online education. Drawing on the fields of Distance Education research and the university’s vision of the “engineer of the future”, TU Delft’s Extension School created a unified pedagogical model – the Online Learning Experience (OLE) – contributing to greater consistency in the development of online courses.
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In early 2014, the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) started an innovation program with the aim to respond even more effectively to recent developments in open and online education. Drawing on the fields of Distance Education research and the university’s vision of the “engineer of the future”, TU Delft’s Extension School created a unified pedagogical model – the Online Learning Experience (OLE) – contributing to greater consistency in the development of online courses.