tu delft on itunes u

1TU Delft on iTunes U

TU Delft on iTunes UCourses on your iPod

Joost Groot Kormelink, Education & Student Affairs

Paul Suijker, TU Delft Library


Content

• A few words about TU Delft

• Motivation TU Delft for participation

• Situation at the start

• Pilot phase & planning

• Workflow

• Lessons learned

• Contact

• Discussions


A few words about TU Delft


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’


Voorbeelden Engineering Challenges


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


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


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’


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


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


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


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)


Portal iTunes U


Workflow

• Recording of the lecture• Conversion to mp3/mp4-format, add trailers• Add metadata• Load assets into repository• Create RSS-feeds


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)


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


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


Statistics

Client software• iTunes op PC of Mac: 91.8 %• iPod: 1%• iPhone: 7,2 % (Wi-Fi?)


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


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


Questions?

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