Open Education Ambassadors

Each year, on the occasion of global Open Education Week, TU Delft celebrates nine lecturers for their commitment to openly share knowledge and educational resources with the world.

Nominated by their faculties and QuTech, they receive the award from the Executive Director of the TU Delft Extension School for Continuing Education in an open ceremony at the Teaching Academy.

These Ambassadors embody the spirit of Open Education and advocate for open teaching & learning practices in a variety of ways. They may advance openness through the design and delivery of a MOOC, or by creating specific open educational resources (OER), such as open textbooks, educational tools, innovative applications and assessment methods, open platforms – many which are often also used for campus education. Additionally, by participating in relevant fora and through efforts in faculty and beyond, they create opportunities for sharing and for intra-discipline collaborations with education parties in and outside academia. To benefit a worldwide audience, they may contribute global and sustainable solutions to societal problems via open online education, or via a focus on specific or under-represented groups, such as learners from low- and middle-income countries, persons with impairments, or female participation in STEM subjects.

Lastly, each nominee wishes to share knowledge and best practices inside and outside TU Delft and across departments and disciplines, in this way both inspiring others and positively affecting learners around the world.


Open Education Ambassadors 2024

Aurèle Adam

Bart van Straten

Calvin Rans

Eliška Greplová

Esra Polat

Esra Polat – faculty of Industrial Design Engineering 

For contributing to open education as evidenced by her support of the faculty’s MOOCs on circularity, including quality checks and the management of Teaching Assistants. Coordinating the delivery and moderation of these MOOCs – Circular Economy: an Introduction; Engineering Design in a Circular Economy; and Designing Electronics for Recycling in a Circular Economy – Esra plays a key role in the intra-faculty collaborations for the portfolio on circularity and sustainability. Additionally, with a focus on accessibility and the sharing of best practices, she implemented the Course Design Accessibility Guidelines in the Sustainable Packaging for a Circular Economy MOOC, which resulted in it being more mobile-friendly and better accessible to persons with impairments, in turn broadening its overall openness and outreach to learners globally. 
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Jules van Lier

Jules van Lier – faculty of Civil Engineering & Geosciences 

For a long-standing commitment to contributing to openness and to sharing expertise globally, for example by creating the Urban Sewage Treatment MOOC, which makes crucial knowledge freely available, positively impacting the welfare of communities all over the world. The further collaborative development of two openly accessible courses on sustainability: Circularity Principles and Policy, and Circularity Applications in Renewable Energy Technologies, is a further tangible demonstration of Jules’ efforts to offer global and sustainable solutions for societal challenges through open online education, aiming to benefit a worldwide audience. Finally, for his continuous leadership, collaborative spirit, advocacy, and dedication to education, sustainability, and societal well-being.   

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Stefan Buijsman

Stefan Buijsman – faculty of Technology, Policy & Management 

For contributing to open education in several ways, also as course manager for the MOOC Ethics in AI Design, developed as part of an interfaculty programme and from Stefan’s earlier involvement with the international TV series/open source platform Mind of the Universe, and which materials are used in interfaculty campus courses. Additionally, for the collaborative development of a new MOOC on the Conscious Use of Generative AI and for the resulting OERs that support the current public discourse on the responsible development and use of AI. Finally, for Stefan’s advocacy within the faculty’s Ethics/Philosophy of Technology section, which aims to reach and involve stakeholders in society to collaboratively find answers for the responsible use of new technologies. This is also demonstrated by the section’s activities within the national edusources community on ethics.   
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Tatiana Armijos Moya

Tatiana Armijos Moya – faculty of Architecture & the Built Environment 

For contributing to openness in different ways and through her work for the MOOC Façade design and engineering, which Tatiana led with sharing as core principle: from publishing the course materials under an open licence to negotiating access to literature that would only be available at a cost to learners outside the MOOC, and to offering live webinars also for self-paced runs. Additionally, for facilitating learners to post their own examples of facades on a global, open platform thus promoting a wider access to knowledge and resources for the whole word to (re)use. Finally, for her steadfast advocacy of open practices which played a significant role in the positioning of OpenFace, an initiative in collaboration with Eurac Research (Italy) to produce six other MOOCs for a credit-bearing Micromaster recognised at TU Delft and the University of Darmstadt (Germany). 
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Tina Nane

Tina Nane – faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics & Computer Science 

For contributing to openness in various ways including with the MOOC on Structured Expert Judgement, which is also used on campus in the Master course Decision Theory/Expert Judgement, and which materials are available to all on OpenCourseWare. Additionally, for sharing expertise with the world and making openly accessible to many Roger Cooke’s own method on expert judgement. This is a method that has been successfully used by the World Health Organisation, in collaboration with researchers, to estimate the global burden of foodborne diseases, as described in your course. Finally, for her passion about open knowledge dissemination, for encouraging others by example, and for her enthusiasm about implementing new ideas to deliver a great learning experience on campus and online. 
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