Open Educational Resources

This educational platform offers open access resources organized around current themes in the field of responsible innovation. This platform is a co-orperation between the TU Delft, Leiden University and the Erasmus University.

Below you will find our educational resources like MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) which we use as support for our minor modules.

OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge. (Source)

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Building with Nature

In the web lectures, Jill Slinger will introduce the concept of Building with Nature as a worldwide trend.
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Water for food, water for cities

This collection deals with two pressing problems: How will we find enough water to produce the food that we need in the coming thirty to forty years? Water for urban development: how much water does a city actually need?
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Circular Economy

We have learned that the aim of the Circular Economy is to radically limit the extraction of raw materials and dramatically reduce the…
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Sustainable Urban Development

With an expanding world population, how can we guarantee sustainable urban development?

Intro The materials in this collection come from the MOOC Sustainable Urban Development and is part of the educational program of the AMS Institute. The AMS Institute (short for Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions) is a new scientific institute located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and was founded by TU Delft, Wageningen UR and MIT. This MOOC was produced by TUDelft and…
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Web Lectures Urban Infrastructures

You have seen in the previous web lecture that urbanization is a pervasive phenomenon in today’s world. Is urbanization bad news for the…
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Safety and Risk Assesments

One of the pillars and key values of RI is risk analysis and safety engineering. But what do we mean by risk? What are ways to determine…
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Autonomous weapons, who pulls the trigger?

In this section, we will have a closer look at autonomous weapons, the controversies and policy recommendations to deliberately design…
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Open Governance

In this collection you will find materials that explore the foundations and objectives of Open Government and examines current developments
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Open Government

How can governments become more open and transparent, while simultaneously dealing with various challenges, such as data sensitivity? How can open government data be made available to improve public policy making? Which technologies are available to make governments more open and use open government data? Governments all over the world aim to become more open and transparent in order to establish…
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Actor Analysis Skills

Actor analysis is of key importance when you have to deal with complex problems.

Consider this situation: a government wants a connection between a major city and a major international airport. It wants to build a high-speed rail connection. In such a large project, a lot of different people, and groups of people, have an interest in the project in whatever way. It can be that they want things to change, since they are unsatisfied right now. Or, they prefer a specific…
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Turbulent times for cities (source MOOC NGI)

Cities face many infrastructural challenges. Without any doubt, these are turbulent times for cities! We will explain this in the next web…
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Management of Innovation

The next web lecture by Roland Ortt from TU Delft is about management of innovation and entrepreneurship. In this lecture, he will…
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Frugal Innovations

Frugal innovation is a new global phenomenon. But what do we mean by frugal innovation?

It is usually defined as stripping down and/or re-engineering products and services, to offer quality goods at very low prices to the people in who are at the “Bottom of Pyramid”. A recent comparison of product prices has shown that frugal innovations can lower the price of a product between 50% to 97% (Rao, B. C., “How disruptive is frugal?”; published in 2013). But there are also broader…
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Ethics of new technologies

Technology is advancing at a faster rate than society's expectations. Just have a look at this document: https://www.weforum.org…
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Complexity Theory

In the next 3 web lectures (part of our MOOC The Next Generation of Infrastructures) we will explain complexity theory and its importance.
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Problem Demarcation

The world has become more complex, and so have the problems we encounter. Drivers for this complexity are, for example, globalisation, access to vast amounts of information through the internet, increased intercultural contact (through the internet and being able to travel around the world) that takes place on a continuous basis, and the fast (but sometimes still uncertain) developments in…
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Designing for Values

If we were to design a technology from scratch, how could we design it in a way that it preserves the values we hold dear? Can we, for example, avoid the Collingridge Dilemma (see collection…) ? How can we systematically codify these values and translate them into design requirements? These questions, and more, will be answered in this week's lectures, where we will be discussing 'Designing for…
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The Concept of Responsible Innovation

Welcome to the first web lecture of "Introduction to Responsible Innovation". In this web lecture we will discuss the meaning and…
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Some Ethical Considerations

In this collection we will look at a number of ethical considerations and discuss: The famous trolley problem (and ask yourself: what would I do if I had to make a choice) How to deal with moral overload Collective and individual moral responsibility Risky technologies and emotions The problem of the many hands: who is to blame in case of an accident when many actors are involved?
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Determinants of innovation

In this lecture by Prof Cees van Beers, we will see what determines successful technological innovation. In order to do so, we first have…
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RRI-tools (EU-project with lots of resources)

At this website (EU-project) you may find a lot of interesting resources: http://www.rri-tools.eu/ .

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Open Educational Resources

Building with Nature

Water for food, water for cities

Circular Economy

Sustainable Urban Development

Web Lectures Urban Infrastructures

Safety and Risk Assesments

Autonomous weapons, who pulls the trigger?

Open Governance

Open Government

Actor Analysis Skills

Turbulent times for cities (source MOOC NGI)

Management of Innovation

Frugal Innovations

Ethics of new technologies

Complexity Theory

Problem Demarcation

Designing for Values

The Concept of Responsible Innovation

Some Ethical Considerations

Determinants of innovation

RRI-tools (EU-project with lots of resources)