Open Universiteit Nederland Courses

Learn STEM: Pedagogical innovations for STEM education

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This open online course will introduce you to pedagogical innovations for STEM education first. We will present the Pedagogical Model Learn STEM that was developed in European collaboration of researchers, school teachers and headmasters. It is based on the Mixed Methods research by the Learn STEM consortium coordinated by the Open University of the Netherlands. Furthermore, you will explore practical tools for innovative STEM education. This online course will take four weeks with live online meetings for discussions. And at the end, it will include an opportunity to define and select a related project with online collaboration and follow up in small groups.The course will be offered in combination with an online community. The online community will allow you to connect with all other teachers and headmasters interested in innovative STEM education. You can build your personal network, share experiences and latest news as well as discuss practical questions and implementations. You decide if you prefer to define and create your personal network or to select and join an existing network at local, regional or global level. 

E-learning

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In het kader van het EADTU-initiatief “Opening up education” hebben het Welten-institute (voorheen CELSTEC) van de Open Universiteit en Kennisnet in het najaar van 2013 een MOOC over E-learning gegeven. Dit is een ingekorte versie van die MOOC. Twee masterclasses, een over learning analytics en een over multimediaal leermateriaal vormen het hart van deze MOOC. Deze masterclasses worden aangevuld met een introductie op e-learning, leertheorieën, invloed van technologie op leren en de relatie tussen didactiek en e-learning. Daarnaast maken we gebruik van opdrachten en hopelijk veel interacties. 

Blended learning ontwikkelen

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Deze Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is bedoeld voor docenten die een (bestaande) cursus (opnieuw) willen ontwerpen, en daarbij online leren willen afwisselen met face-to-face bijeenkomsten. Tijdens deze MOOC analyseren we verschillende voorbeelden van blended learning. U kunt daarnaast via een extra opdracht aan de slag gaan met het maken van een ontwerp van een cursus waarbij sprake is van een effectief en aantrekkelijk gebruik van internettechnologie. U bent in staat keuzes aan de hand van literatuur te onderbouwen.De MOOC heeft een doorlooptijd van 7 weken. De onderwerpen die aan bod komen, zijn: toetsen, beoordelen en feedback geven, communiceren en samenwerkend leren, communiceren en individueel leren, en ontwikkelen van leerstof, allen uiteraard met behulp van internettechnologie.Iedere studietaak bevat opdrachten die u voorlegt aan de andere deelnemers. Daarnaast kunt u zich verder verdiepen in blended learning door te kiezen voor verdiepingsopdrachten of door een herontwerp te maken.We vragen van u om actief mee te doen en te reageren op uitwerkingen van de overige deelnemers.De studiebelasting bedraagt ongeveer 3 uur per week. Deelname aan deze cursus is gratis.De materialen binnen deze cursus hebben de licentievoorwaarden CC BY-NC-SA van Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/, tenzij anders vermeld.

Massive Open Online Course on Marine Litter

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Marine litter is a global problem that affects every ocean of the world. Litter is an environmental, human health and socio-economic problem that is a symptom of a highly disposable society. With worldwide growth in the amount of solid litter thrown away every day and slow rates of degradation, the amount of litter present in the marine environment is increasing.The MOOC on marine litter strives to teach students through action oriented learning how they can apply successful and inspiring activities to their own local context, regardless of their profession or location. The course will present different options and tools to combat marine pollution such as the use of effective and legitimate tools like the Honolulu Strategy. The course will provide examples and case studies that will inspire leadership at all levels, thereby increasing awareness of and stimulating creative solutions to marine litter problems. Moreover, this course will benefit policymakers, practitioners, and managers who wish to connect with other professionals in order to enhance their knowledge of marine litter issues. 

Assessment for learning in practice

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Formative assessment or assessment for learning is a relevant theme for teachers and educationalists, because it is a valuable tool to support the learning process and is applied during the process. In this MOOC we will provide you with theory and guidelines to development assessments in such a manner that you can support knowledge creation and building while allowing that these assessments can be applied as a tool for learning and training of competences.In this MOOC you can learn what formative assessment is and how formative assessment can contribute to the learning of pupils or students.The MOOC is in first instance aimed at teachers and educationalists who would like to support the learning process, but the MOOC can be followed by anyone who would like to apply formative assessment.

How Cryptography Keeps The Internet Secure

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The course starts with a simple introduction on writing secrets, revisiting the cryptographic techniques already used by the Romans and the Spartans. We will also see how to analyse such ciphertexts to discover the hidden secrets. We then will discuss somewhat more advanced cryptographic systems and discuss how to analyse these as well. The principles used by the Romans and Spartans together still form the underlying principles of modern-day cryptography, more specifically we will discuss two modern cryptographic systems (DES and AES) as an illustration.The next part of the course is about public-key cryptography. You can think of this type of cryptography like padlocks: everyone with an open padlock can close the padlock, but you cannot open the padlock without the key. We will discuss two public-key cryptographic systems (RSA and ElGamal), and for those that have the guts, we will show you not just how, but also why they work.The final part of the course is devoted to building security features out of cryptographic building blocks. We will discuss digital signatures, certificate chains, hash chains, etc..Requirements:Knowledge of the English alphabetAbility to follow logic reasoningFamiliarity with high school maths