Michiel de Jong
(Session Chair: Librarians - Mon 16:00)
Michiel de Jong is the Open Education Coordinator for the TU Delft Library. This role was developed to promote Open Education throughout campus education within the university. Michiel also heads the Open Textbook project within the university, as part of TU Delft Open Publishing. Other activities include organizing the open education week on campus, teaching the MOOC Open Science: Sharing Your Research With The World and promoting open education in the various departments. Michiel is also part of the national acceleration plan for education innovation with ICT, in the zone "towards digital open educational resources" and member of the Special Interest Group Open Education, which focuses on developing an Open Pedagogy framework in The Netherlands.
Michiel obtained his PhD in chemical engineering at TU Delft and has taught Chemistry at the Utrecht university of Applied Sciences. He started this role in 2017 in order to maximize his impact on the future of a sustainable digitalization of education, through open means.
