Guidelines when taking a MOOC/Online course
- Consult with your supervisor first before enrolling into a MOOC/Online course that you want to use as part of your DE programme.
- Courses should be on an intermediate or advanced level, preferably tailored for PhD candidates who already have a MSc.
- Follow courses from reliable platforms with an organized way of quality assurance, like EdX and Coursera (Udemy courses are not allowed).
- Contact your department to see whether they can pay for the possible costs involved (course registration, certificates).
- As of September 2022 all TU Delft PhD candidates can get full access to MOOCs offered by TU Delft for free, with a full access voucher. More information on how to obtain such a voucher can be found in the Doctoral Education Guidelines under the heading "TU Delft MOOCs".
- To determine the amount of credits: please follow the guidelines in the Doctoral Education Guidelines: “1 GS credit = 12 hours of workload”.
- There is a maximum of 5 credits for any given course.
- Pursue a certificate.
Examples of courses
Transferable skills:
Design Leadership and Innovation
Engineering Project Management: Project Financing
Leadership Essentials for Engineers
How to design a successful business model
Framing your communication to inspire and convince
Organizational Leadership specialization
Leadership communication for maximum impact: storytelling
Research skills:
Image ability: Visualizing the unimageable
Presentation Skills: speechwriting, slides and delivery specialization
Presentation skills: speechwriting and storytelling
Responsible innovation: Ethics, safety and technology
Discipline-related skills:
Next generation for infrastructures
Materials Science and Engineering
Fundamentals of Macroscopic and Microscopic Thermodynamics