TU Delft offers various MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) on the edX-platform. A MOOC is an online course aiming at large-scale interactive participation and open access via the web. There is not yet such a MOOC on Particle Technology available in Delft, and – as far as I am aware – there is also little openly available online material in this field at other universities.

In this presentation, I will briefly show how a MOOC can work, and discuss its pros and cons. I will also present some other ways on (partial) online teaching. Subsequently, I will discuss how these approaches could be applied to the field of Particle Technology.

Prof. Ruud van Ommen has been a member of the Department of Chemical Engineering at TU Delft since 2001 and has been Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Professor there since 2016. He is active in the fields of particle technology and chemical reaction engineering, with particular focus on the scalable production of advanced, nanostructured materials. In 2011, he started an ambitious programme (funded by an ERC Starting Grant) to investigate the interplay between agglomeration and coating of nanoparticles in the gas phase. This fundamental work has been leading to multiple practical applications in health and energy applications, funded by several research grants and by industry. It has also led to a spin-out a company (Delft IMP).