Category: Open Education

Editor Spotlight: Reviving the History of Gravity Research in the Netherlands

The field of geodesy, the study of the Earth’s shape and its precise measurements, has existed since antiquity. A unique project at TU Delft aims to bridge history, science, and education by reviving a bit of its past. Translating an 1830 thesis originally written in Latin by mathematician Petrus van Galen, the project brings to..

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Editor spotlight: A student perspective – Lessons learned while working for an OA journal

Getting involved with academic publishing is not all that common for a bachelor’s student. So when Laetitia Guérin, a double major in nanobiology and philosophy, got the unique opportunity to work as a student editor for the open access Journal of Human-Technology Relations (JHTR) she jumped right in. Over the last year, the experience has..

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TU Delft OPEN Publishing | 2023 Annual Report

Textbooks and Books published in 2023

As TU Delft OPEN Publishing, we are on a mission: create a community-driven and open access (OA) scholarly communication platform that provides resilient publishing services to the dynamic community of teachers and researchers at TU Delft. Now that we are four years in existence, we are proud to look back on what we achieved and..

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Editor spotlight: Rethinking education on urban challenges in the Global South

Equipping people to solve the urban challenges of the Global South requires innovative approaches and new perspectives. Building on a successful MOOC they created in 2017, a team at TU Delft’s Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment wanted to make the educational materials even more inclusive and accessible. Using a unique bottom-up approach, they..

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The TU Delft Library is much more than a collection of books

Walk into the TU Delft Library and it’s hard to miss the vast wall of books that stretches from the ground level up to the fourth floor. But there is so much more than meets the eye. From a research and educational repository, to historical treasures, databases, journals, multimedia resources, and more the Library’s collection..

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