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This paper discusses the results of a one-year experiment of a course on aircraft stress analysis and design in the second year of the BSc phase at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology. The experiment entails an electronic version of a classical reader in wiki format. The reason for this experiment is based on a prac...
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... Next to that they were offered full support from all the administrative bodies within the university from the didactical service unit, registration, legal services, marketing department and of course ICT and the New Media Centre. The research group ASCM of the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering has a long running tradition of educational innovation [4,5,6,7] and excellence. Over the past 4 years two of its lecturers have been awarded the coveted Aerospace Teacher of the Year Award. ...
These days a university can no longer afford to only deliver its courses face-to-face. Many universities record their lectures, offer online courses, offer free educational content online to al using OpenCourseWare (OCW) or even run and assess complete courses for anyone who is willing to participate via the principle of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs).
At Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, which has a longstanding tradition in Open Course Ware, similar developments are taking place. From September 2012 the development has started of three online MSc programmes in Aerospace Engineering, Water Management and Engineering and Policy Analysis respectively.
This paper aims to share experiences of the Aerospace Structures and Computational Mechanics group at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering in their aim to develop and run online Master courses both for their own students as well as external Master students from anywhere in the world.
Courses that are being developed into an online format are courses in linear and non-linear modeling using Finite Element Methods, advanced structural analysis, buckling of structures, design and optimization of composite structures and adaptive aerospace structures.
In this paper the didactical design of the course content, of the method of delivery, and of the assessment of the online courses will be explained. Next to that results of the first experiences will be shared as well as the outcomes of student evaluations of the first courses that have ran online. The paper will also include set of recommendations and lessons learned for others with similar initiatives to benefit from.
