Open Universiteit Nederland

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Open Universiteit Nederland
SCOP Meeting / June 2007
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Mission

• Open Universiteit Nederland seeks to be
• an institution that is strongly anchored in the
  Dutch higher educational system through its
  educational, research and innovation activities
• a frontrunner worldwide in open higher distance
  education and educational innovation
• a frontrunner worldwide in competency-based
  learning in an electronic environment
• an institution that operates successfully in the
  field of lifelong learning and is a much wanted
  provider of market-oriented and commercial
  education

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Open Universiteit Nederland

• Founded in 1984
• Distance education on an academic level
• Expert in development and innovation of education
• Leader in development and implementation of new
  scientific insights and new technologies
• Tackling the teacher shortage

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Educational system

• Unique in its openness and freedom
• Open entry
• Freedom of place and time
• Freedom of pace
• year round enrolment
• Open programming
• the course

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Educational system distance teaching

• Student counselling by e-mail and telephone
• ELO Studienet / Blackboard
• Face-to-face tutoring sessions, national student
  days, mini-conferences, thesis students
• 15 study centres in the Netherlands, 6 in
  Flanders (Belgium)
• Information channels Modulair, ELO, Study guide

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Faculties

• 7 faculties
• School of Management
• School of Cultural Sciences
• School of Informatics
• School of Science
• School of Psychology
• School of Law
• School of Education

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Programmes

• 270 courses
• 7 bachelor programmes
• 13 master programmes
• 7 tutored master programmes
• short higher educational programmes
• (post) hbo-programmes
• Training programmes on a commercial basis

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Students (1)

• Active students 16.802
• Courses 38.098
• Male 48 Female 52
• Agelt 26 926-35 3136-45 34gt 45 26

As per 31-12-2006
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Students (2)

• Student profile
• 41 fulltime job (35 to 40 hours per week)
• 49 opt for our university because of the
  freedom of time and place
• 44 second-chance students
• 89 the Netherlands
• 11 Belgium
• (443 students live elsewhere)

As per 31-12-2006
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Expertise centres

• Educational technology expertise centre
• Ruud de Moor Centrum for professionalization of
  teachers
• Netherlands expertise centre for Lifelong Learning

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Expertise

• Instructional design
• Realisation of competency based education
• Integration of work and study
• Lifelong learning
• E-learning
• Assessments examination and certification
  processes
• Curriculum development
• Development and implementation of self study
  materials and distance teaching
• Development and implementation of educational
  technologies
• Design and implementation of electronic learning
  environments
• Multidisciplinary educational development
• Strategy as to in-company training and
  educational infrastructure