tu delft on itunes u
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TU Delft explains why they have chosen for iTunes U as a publication channel for their course materials and how they have done it.TRANSCRIPT
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Joost Groot Kormelink, Education & Student Affairs
Paul Suijker, TU Delft Library
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Content
• A few words about TU Delft
• Motivation TU Delft for participation
• Situation at the start
• Pilot phase & planning
• Workflow
• Lessons learned
• Contact
• Discussions
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A few words about TU Delft
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TU Delft - characteristics
Faculties: 8
Bachelor programmes: 14, Master programmes: 36
Total number of students: 16,000/ International students: 2,100
Scientific staff: 2,600
Number of PhD-theses: 250
Focal Research programs: Energy, Health, Infrastructures & Environment: ‘Challenge the future’
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Voorbeelden Engineering Challenges
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Motivation TU Delft for participation in iTunes U
• Strong commitment CvB Open Access including Open Educational Resources
• Considered as a next step after the launch of OpenCourseWare in 2007
• International orientation TU Delft• Large number of visitors of iTunes U worldwide• Prestige• Better use of existing material • Irreversible trend worldwide• Demand from students
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OpenCourseWare
“ TU Delft is dedicated to finding sustainable solutions for social problems. The university's core tasks include delivering know-how and building knowledge networks in an international context. OpenCourseWare is one of the means by which we are contributing to this mission. “
Jacob Fokkema, Former Rector Magnificus, initiator of the TU Delft OpenCourseWare project
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Starting points
• Strong increase in the use of Collegerama and other technology for recording seminars, lecturers, etc.
• Open Access policy also for education• Different channels in use for external multimedia
publications (YouTube, collegerama.tudelft.nl, etc.)• Multimediaportal under construction • Professors asking for participation in iTunes U • However, NO cooperate publication
policy for multimedia.
Screenshot www.collegerama.tudelft.nl
‘Ad-random publication’
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Pilot phase & Planning Preparation
• 2007: first internal request
• February 2009: application sent to Apple
• June 2009: first meeting with Apple
• September 2009: briefing Apple for • Senior management • Experts
• September 2009: approval CvB for pilot phase, joint
launch with OU
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Pilot phase & planning Implementation
• October 2009: project team in place (next slide) under the responsibility of the already existing steering group Multimedia
• October 2009: finalization project plan & provisional workflow for publication
• November 2009 – January 2010: selection of assets & workflow for publication
• December 2009: approval Board internal organization after pilot phase
• January 2010: approval steering group for launch on 2.2.2010
• February 2, 2010: launch jointly with OU
• February 2010: finalization project pilot phase & hand over to standing organization
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Project team pilot phase
• Library: workflow publication process and storage• MMS: technical support (format/trailer)• ICT: Server & installation of iTunes U at the campus• Education and Student Affairs: project leader & support
for the workflow (E-learning support unit) • M&C: homepage TU Delft at iTunes U
Selection of assets: co-production
No internal communication/marketing allowed
Two student assistants doing most of the workflow
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Launch 2.2.2010
• Three Categories• Engineering Challenges• Education • Campus life (i.e. Delft Design Engineering Challenges)
• Press Statement (http://tinyurl.com/y9a4bxe)
• Bezoek iTunes U TU Delft (http://itunesu.tudelft.nl)
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Portal iTunes U
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Workflow
• Recording of the lecture• Conversion to mp3/mp4-format, add trailers• Add metadata• Load assets into repository• Create RSS-feeds
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Current workflow
• Recording of the lecture (MMS - Multimedia Services)• Conversion mp3/mp4-format (Educational Support/MMS)• Add metadata (Educational Support/Library)• Load assets into repository (Library)• Editorial phase (Marketing)• Create RSS-feeds (Library)
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Preparation
iTunes U• TU Delft homepage on iTunes U• Website structure• Course pages + links to RSS feeds
TU Delft• Repository for multimedia assets• Landing page op TU Delft website
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Statistics *)
Total• Visits: 129.772• Download tracks: 44.658
February 2010• Visits: 14.913 per week• Download data: 0,657 TB download (first week February)
March 2010• Visits: 14.604 per week
*) February 2 - March 14, 2010
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Statistics
Client software• iTunes op PC of Mac: 91.8 %• iPod: 1%• iPhone: 7,2 % (Wi-Fi?)
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Lessons learned
• Support from “College van Bestuur”: crucial• Workflow and costs are manageable• Side effect: more attention for copyright & requirements
for multimedia• iTunes U has been a trigger for our new multimedia
publication policy • Metadata is important• Conclusions from downloads: too early
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Next steps
• Create new video’s• Engineering Challenges• Campus Life
• Encourage teachers to publish “existing” material on iTunes U (4.000 hours in store)
• Encourage teachers to publish “new” material on iTunes U
• Work on optimize workflow• Work on publication policy
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Questions?