Delft University
of Technology
Opening up our Content
Educational Repository Network, Sept 17th 2009
Willem van Valkenburg
E-learning consultant, ICT Department
Blog: www.e-learn.nl
Twitter: twitter.com/wfvanvalkenburg
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Agenda
• Delft University of Technology
• Opening Up our Research
• Opening Up our Education
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A few words about TU Delft
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TU Delft - Characteristics
• Excellent (international) ratings
• Driven by demands of society
• Focussed multi-disciplinary research themes
• High quality educational programes, with a focus on
ICT in education
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TU Delft: Basic Data 2009
www.tudelft.nl
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Faculties: 8
Bachelor programmes: 14
Master programmes: 41
Total number of students: 16,000
International students: 3,000
Scientific staff: 2,600
Number of PhD-theses per year: 250
TU Delft
• Focal Multi-disciplinary Research Programs:
Energy, Health, Infrastructures, Environment.
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Core tasks of the
university is to deliver
know-how and
building knowledge
networks in an
international context.
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Research Repository
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TU Delft Repository (start 2005)
http://repository.tudelft.nl
12,600 full text publications
Dissertations (3,850)
Lectures (1,100)
Articles (4,200)
Student theses (1,100)
Reports (1,850)
Patents (250)
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Advantages Repository TU Delft
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Improve access to academic work.
Raises the profile of academic work.
Act of international solidarity.
Counterweight against publishers.
Guarantees the durability of data files.
Reinforce university’s image as a centre of knowledge.
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Advantages Repository Scientists
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Priority claim
Visibility output (full text in e.g. Google)
Accessible worldwide
Sustainable e-archive
Increase citations/downloads
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Access to TU Delft Research
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DARE.net
Royal Library (KB)
OAISTER (Open Access Repositories)
Google/ Google Scholar
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Opening Up our Education
• Share our courses via OpenCourseWare
• Share our course content via OAI-PMH
• Share our multimedia via our multimedia portal
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Delft OpeCourseWare: Why start?
• University:
• Reputation
• Open academic community: open knowlege organisation in worldwide networks.
• Inevitable trend
• Bundling of faculty initiatives: bringing it all together.
• Specialism:
• Exposure: Show what you can do, international reputation, being part
of international knowledge networks
• Serve the group of Life Long Learners
• Attract new masters students: show what we have
• Positive impact on recruiting PhD’s
• The help with the combined educational programs
• Positive impact on the quality of educational resources
• Reputation of the teaching staff
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Architecture
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OAIPMH
Blackboard
CourseBase
Hive
OAIPMH
Lorenet.nl
RSS
OCW
RSS
OCWFinder.org
oerrecommender.org
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OCW Consortium
• 100 live sites with ~9,000 courses
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Thank You for Your Time
OCW.TUDelft.nl
Repository.TUDelft.nl
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