TU Delft | PRIME

🎉 Celebrating a Decade of Educational Innovation with PRIME! 🎉 On May 31st, we marked the 10th anniversary of PRIME at the beautiful Knus Delft with a day full of memorable activities and reflections. Highlights included: 🚣♂️ A thrilling pedal boat race 🥦 A dynamic workshop on game-based learning: "Chocolate Covered Broccoli" 🧠 An insightful presentation on personalized learning in Grasple - Open Education 🌟 A delightful walk-through tour of PRIME We celebrated the incredible innovations and achievements of the past decade. A huge thank you to our dedicated lecturers, student assistants, collaborators, and the PRIME team for their commitment and creativity. Here’s to many more years of groundbreaking education and innovation! 🚀 #PRIME10Years #Innovation #Education #Celebration

A major milestone for Delft University of Technology today - together we've conducted our 100,000th summative assessment! 🎉  This incredible achievement reflects the hard work and dedication of our educators, staff, the Grasple - Open Education team and TU Delft | PRIME and celebrates the strength of the cooperation between TU Delft and Grasple as a private social enterprise. Our journey together has been remarkable, and it’s fascinating to look back on how far we’ve come. Here’s a timeline of our summative assessment evolution: • 𝗣𝗿𝗲-𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟬: The initial summative tests, marking the first of the 100,000 assessments. • 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟬/𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭 (𝗖𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗱 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗼𝗱): Transition to online distance assessments using RPNow and Grasple due to the pandemic. • 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭: Returned to paper-based assessments Post-Covid. • 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹/𝗠𝗮𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟮: Introduction of first trials with Grasple on campus. • 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟮: First significant BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) test pilot on-campus, assessing 1400 students in a single week across five subjects, including Calculus and Linear Algebra with Schoolyear. • 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭/𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟮: Early experiments with on-campus digital exams. • 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟮/𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯: Successful pilot year for on-campus digital exams. • 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯/𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰: Completion of the pilot phase and official start of on-campus digital exams. Big thank you at this point to Dennis den Ouden-van der Horst, Ilse Bakker, Tom Vroegrijk, the TU Delft | PRIME team, Thijs Gillebaart, Eric Bouwers, Sofie Bastiaansen and Schoolyear - Safe Exam Workspace To mark this occasion, here are three valuable tips on summative assessments: 𝟭. 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆 𝗶𝘀 𝗞𝗲𝘆: Ensure your assessments align with your learning objectives and course content. Consistency helps in accurately measuring student learning and progress. 𝟮. 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗖𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀: Ambiguity can lead to confusion and affect student performance. Clear, concise instructions ensure students understand what is expected of them. 𝟯. 𝗜𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗽𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗙𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗠𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗺𝘀: Use the insights gained from summative assessments to improve your teaching strategies and course content. Feedback loops are essential for continuous improvement. A huge thank you to everyone involved in reaching this milestone. Here’s to many more achievements and continuous growth in our academic journey! 🌟 #STEMEducation #TUDelft #SummativeAssessment #edtech #educationinnovation

Want to know how Linear Algebra is applied in computer games? Professor Elmar Eisemann, head of the Computer Graphics and Visualization Group at the TU Delft, demonstrates how Linear Algebra plays a crucial role in computer graphics, using the old school games Asteroids and Blasteroids as an example. How is a spaceship rotated on your game screen and how are the pixel colours determined? Find out by watching this video. Soon you will also hear from us about the programming exercise accompanying the video! https://lnkd.in/eB5-NkvF

📘 Exciting News! 🚀 Our colleagues have been hard at work since the summer of 2021, and we're thrilled to announce the release of "Open Linear Algebra", our interactive open access book tailored specifically for engineering students! 🌟 With the support of a dedicated team of lecturers, along with invaluable assistance from supporting staff and student assistants, this project has been made possible. We are immensely grateful for the funding provided by the NPO (Nationaal Programma Onderwijs) grant, enabling us to bring this resource to life. 🙏 PRIME led the charge on adding interactive applets and animations to the book, and we're gearing up to roll out this new educational tool in our courses next year. 👩🏫 #LinearAlgebra #EngineeringEducation #OpenAccess #InteractiveLearning #EducationInnovation #OpenInteractiveTextbooks #TUDelft

Introducing the PRIME Catalogue: Sharing educational tools to improve mathematical mastery for engineering students. With more than 300 videos, applets, and interactive videos spread across multiple platforms, PRIME needed a better way to organise and share their learning resources. Programme Manager Tom Vroegrijk and Coordinator Beryl van Gelderen, with help of the Open Education Fund, spearheaded a project to make their materials easier to find and more accessible, supporting lecturers and improving mathematics education for engineering students at TU Delft and beyond. You can find the catalogue here: https://lnkd.in/e4au7TR6 Use filters to choose a domain or material type (we like 'interactive' and 'math in the wild'), search by topic or the name of your favourite lecturer.   #OEWeek, #OESF #OpenEducation #TUDelft #TUDelftlibrary

🎉 The second semester has officially started! 🎓   As our lecturers open the doors to the first classes of the second semester, it's the perfect time to celebrate the excellent work of our lecturers and student assistants in creating educational materials, sharing insightful examples and making every lecture an exciting experience. At TU Delft | PRIME, we take immense pride in the dedication and hard work of our students, faculty, and staff in building a vibrant learning community.   👨🏫 Thank you for your efforts in shaping the minds of future engineers and innovators.   🌟 Let's make the second semester even more memorable and impactful than the first!   #Mathematics #Innovation #Education #UniversityLife #Celebrate #SecondSemester

Nearly five years have gone by since Delft University of Technology released their collection of linear algebra exercises on Grasple! Students from all over the world have been able to practice with them ever since. 👩🎓 🌍   Our latest blog tells the story of the team behind this valuable addition to our community content, which is part of TU Delft | PRIME. The team members explain: 🚀 Why they decided to contribute to open education by making their exercises available for everyone to practice with; 🔍 How they went about the process of collecting, creating and curating the perfect content for a linear algebra course; 📘 Which licensing type they decided on when releasing their materials, and what that means for using and sharing them. … ▶ Curious about TU Delft’s approach? Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/eRzrMRXP #OpenEducation #EdTech #OER #cocreation #mathematics #educationreform #linearalgebra

Happy New Year to everyone! 🤩 PRIME sends you the best wishes for 2024. 🎉

The Blended Course Design Bootcamp was amazing!    PRIME was present with two dynamic teams at the Blended Course Design Bootcamp on November 2 and 3 at the picturesque Villa Augustus. An incredibly enriching experience!   Our first team focused on fostering students' metacognitive skills, while the other PRIME team assisted students in their mastery of linear algebra within the specific context of aerospace engineering. Mark van Huystee's visuals beautifully captured the essence and vision of our projects.   We left the Bootcamp with a lot of positive energy and some exciting new projects. Also, the food was delicious. 😁 We hope to join again in the future!

We are so proud of our student assistants Abel de Bruijn, Julia van der Kris, Pauline Hengst and Rens Dur! In San Sebastian, Spain they presented a fascinating new tool to engage our students in their Calculus classes: an Augmented Reality application that models the flow of a lava stream using gradients. Read more about how they made it happen below: