TU Delft is an avid promoter of the use of open educational resources in both online and campus education. In this latest project the faculties of Aerospace Engineering and Civil Engineering are working together to re-use and re-design a MOOC on project management for a consortium of Aerospace professionals. The consortium offers a yearly course to high potential employees from companies like Airbus, SAAB, Safran and Dassault that is designed to enhance the management and leadership capabilities of their future programme directors. The consortium has seen large differences in basic project management skills between their participants over the years and would like to create a pre-course online module to test these skills and to provide all participants with the same basic knowledge pre course. Participants that are already highly skilled can either skip the module or choose an advanced topic to work on.
The goal of the current project is twofold. The first goal is to create a pre-course questionnaire using the topics from the MOOC to identify any gaps in project management skills among participants. This test will be taken by all participants. The second goal is to re-use and re-design as much of the material of the MOOC as possible, in order to create an online module that will help all participants get to the desired starting level in project management before the course begins.
