Janine Kiers

Delft University of Technology | TU

Conference proceeding of the EMOCs 2021 confernce in Potsdam (Germany)

Large-scale online education plays a minor role in campus education in the Netherlands or most European higher education (HE) institutions. The COVID-19 crisis enabled two Dutch front runners in open and online education to implement their lessons learned from large-scale online education, digital tools and methods on campus. The changes do not aut...

The courses in an online learning portfolio for the professional market have different characteristics compared to those in residential bachelor and master programmes. This includes the mode of delivery: online versus face-to-face, as well as the audience: professionals versus degree students. Developing such a portfolio entails a different approac...

The fast-changing labour market requires flexible and modular re-skilling and upskilling of the workforce. MOOCs and MOOC-based programmes can play an important role, provided that several hurdles are taken: recognition of the credentials by employers; industry and government collaborating with academia to develop these courses and programmes; and...

Open government is a worldwide trend. Many countries started implementation process a few years ago in different topics such as: information access, transparency, accountability and open data. However, this process has different outcomes and meanings related to the Open Government concept. The purpose of this panel is to discuss the use of the feas...

Four years after the introduction of MOOCs – which were proclaimed to be «the end of education as we know it» in 2012 – the role and effect of these free, online courses is becoming clearer. The online means of delivery to the heterogeneous audiences of MOOCs have enabled and compelled instructors and course teams to develop innovative and flexible...

Is there one approach to course design that can be recommended in engineering education? At Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), we designed and developed 25 MOOCs, and our experience and expertise in course design is advancing. One of the frequently used approaches for supporting course teams was inspired by the Carpe Diem approach (Salmon 2...

What does it mean to qualify as a ‘successful’ MOOC? This question haunts policy makers and educators alike, and is at the core of the continued development and funding for Massive Open Online Courses. Because MOOCs can serve many purposes, their value lies in more than just their short-term educational role. A ‘successful’ MOOC can do more than ju...

This paper describes experiences and lessons learned from developing, building and running 18 MOOCs (including 4 reruns) at the Delft University of Technology, namely the selection of courses, the design, development and delivery of courses, innovative educational elements for use in online and in residential teaching, and the generation of data. O...

RNA thermometers are mRNA strands with a temperature dependent secondary structure: depending on the spatial conformation, the mRNA strand can get translated (on-state) or can be inaccessible for ribosomes binding (off-state). These have been found in a number of microorganisms (mainly pathogens), where they are used to adaptively regulate the gene...

While familiar with process design, the Life Sciences industry is still developing its perception of product design. On a meta-level, the design process is analogous in different disciplines, ranging from Architecture and Industrial Design to Chemical Product Design and Design in Informatics. However, we can distinguish each designing discipline by...

Gastschrijver TU Delft 2006

Kluyveromyces lactis is an important industrial yeast, as well as a popular laboratory model. There is currently no consensus in the literature on the physiology of this yeast, in particular with respect to aerobic alcoholic fermentation (‘Crabtree effect’). This study deals with regulation of alcoholic fermentation in K. lactis CBS 2359, a propose...