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PM-EDUCATION @TU DELFT

MOOC EXPERIENCES

Prof Dr Hans Bakker Dr Ir Marian Bosch-Rekveldt

23 Februari 2017 - IPMA Onderwijsdag

Content

• Who are we?

• Overview project management education portfolio • Bsc • Msc • Post graduate

• Going online

• Our MOOC experiences

Who are we?

• Section Infrastructure Design and Management within Civil Engineering and Geosciences

Current PhDs with topics related to PM

• Jules Verlaan – Depreciation of Infrastructure • Leonie Koops – Collaboration / Project success • Afshin Jalali – Complexity / Agile PM • Elizabet de Graaf – Decision making / Soft skills • Cigdem Demirel – Dynamic Contracting • Joannes Visser – Integral Design • Erfan Houseini – Risk management • Liu Yan – Database project learning • Maedeh Molaei – Database complex projects • Drewes Hielema – Experience from an EPC • Wout Dillmann – Decreasing productivity in projects • Rene Hombergen – Choices for program mgmt

Portfolio Project Management Education

• BSc • Minor: Project Management from Nano to Mega (~80 students)

• MSc

• Project Management track in 4TU Master Construction Management Engineering (~200 students)

• Management & Design annotation MSc Civil Engineering (~10 students)

• MSc course Management of Engineering Projects

• Intensive course project management, mixed audience (students & professionals, ~40 students)

Minor Project Management from Nano to Mega

• Success factors for managing technical projects • Work in project teams • ‘Fit-for-purpose’ project management

Going online

Terminology

MOOC ProfEd

Massive Open Online Course

Professional Education

Thousands of participants

Hundreds of participants

Free unless you want a certificate

Fee (~250-400)

~40 hours of work

~28 hours of work

~BSc level

~MSc (+) level

Learning environment: EdX

Our Portfolio of Project Management Education

BSc

MSc

Post Academic

Minor PM

CME courses

MEP course

MOOC PM

ProfEds Project

Complexity Project Finance

MOOC: From idea to realisation

• EdX platform

• Video lectures

• (Group) assignment(s)

• Interviews practitioners

• Study materials

MOOC: What they will learn

• To draft a project execution plan • How to successfully work together in a specialized project

team • How to select an appropriate project manager • The importance of the front-end phases to create a

successful project • How projects are successfully managed in different sectors

and contexts

• Week 0: Welcome and course overview • Week 1: The need for and importance of project management • Week 2: Organizing the team • Week 3: Opportunity framing • Week 4: The project assurance plan • Week 5: Selecting the contracting strategy • Week 6: Time and cost estimates • Week 7: Bringing it together in the project execution plan

MOOC: The content in 7 weeks

MOOC: some facts & observations

• ~11.000 subscribed (280 ID-verified), ~2000 really started, of which ~300 really active throughout the course!

• 200 passed the course successfully (150 ID-verified)

• Weekly assignments (both individual & team) helped the students to stay active

From the evaluation

MOOC: our experiences & lessons learned

• It is great when the plan comes together!

• Front-end loading crucial…!

• Challenges with the technical system / group work

• Our internal edX team complimented us on the structured and succesful project management approach we followed in developing the course

Outlook

• MOOC re-run October 2017 (with minor adjustments)

• ProfEds (4wks) • Mastering project complexity (May 2017) • Project finance (June 2017)

Thank you!

• Any questions?

• M.g.c.bosch-rekveldt@tudelft.nl