One of the benefits of the OCWC conference is one gets to see the multiple ways people around the world are accomplishing OCW.

Delft’s presentation was interesting for a number of reasons. They are doing a full video implementation of OCW, synced up in a house tool to PowerPoints and the like. But they’ve done the video and technical production inexpensively while maintaining good quality: Anka Mulder says the slate of courses they have put up (21 over the past year) have been done with with two employees who spend a total of two days a week on the project.

The expense at TU Delft is in incentives: Faculty are currently paid the equivalent of $10,000 for each course they help put up. The trick, Anka says, will be finding a sustainable model that allows them to continue to reward faculty for publishing their intellectual property.

You can see the TU Delft courseware, which is mostly in English, here.

One trivial note that resonated with me, because it spoke to how we have to break out of the idea that we are replicating a classroom experience with video implementations: the most popular feature of the video courses is the ability to play the course lectures at double-speed. How’s that for a benefit?