Real Virtual Erasmus Workshop How to implement Virtual Mobility in Mainstream Higher Education 23 Ju

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Real Virtual Erasmus WorkshopHow to
implement Virtual Mobility in Mainstream Higher
Education?23 June 2005EDEN Conference,
Helsinki, Finland
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Case IErasmus Mundus Master Programme in
Adapted Physical ActivityKamakshi
RajagopalK.U.Leuven
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Case I EMM

• Erasmus Mundus Master programmes
• High-quality integrated courses at masters level
  offered in at least three universities in at
  least three different European countries
• Integrated
• Study period at at least 2 of 3 universities
• Recognised double, multiple or joint diploma

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Case I EMM

• K.U.Leuven has 2 Erasmus Mundus programmes
• EMM in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
• EMDAPA EMM in Adapted Physical Activity

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Case I EMDAPA

• 1 year Post-graduate programme
• Consortium
• K.U.Leuven (Belgium)
• University of Limerick (Ireland)
• Palacky University Olomouc (Czech Republic)
• Norwegian University of Sport and Physical
  Education (Norway)

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Case I EMDAPA

• 26 grants from the EC for students from Asian
  countries
• During the year, a number of guest professors
  will visit the different consortium universities
  and give seminars and lectures.

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Case I EMDAPA

• Students will spend first semester in Leuven and
  follow courses
• Second semester will be spent at another
  university of the consortium
• Masters thesis
• Seminars
• Practical experience
• Students select beforehand where they will write
  their Masters thesis

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Case I EMDAPA

• For students who write their Masters thesis in
  Leuven
• First half of first semester in Leuven
• Second half of first semester in another partner
  university
• Second semester in Leuven
• In future, students may have the possibility to
  spend some months at universities outside Europe

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Case I EMDAPA

• Possibilities for virtual mobility
• Selection/assessment of students (using CD-Rom)
• Community building
• Dissemination/sharing of learning material (i.e.
  lectures, seminars by guest professors)
• Supervision Masters thesis over a distance
• (Optional) language courses

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Implementing virtual mobility

• Organisational challenges
• e.g. Registration of non-campus students
• Access to facilities for non-campus students
• Student selection
• Pedagogical challenges
• e.g. Community building
• Culture
• Supervision of Masters thesis
• Technical challenges
• e.g. Equipment and Broadband limitations
• Interoperability of learning platforms

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Case IILiterature and Cinema CourseIlse
Op de BeeckEuroPACE
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Case II Literature and Cinema

• Course simultaneously taught at K.U.Leuven and
  University of Granada
• 1 semester course at graduate/Master level
• Online contact hours (teaching exchange)
• Optional course for students humanities/language/c
  ultural studies
• Group of 10 to 20 students per partner

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Case II Literature and Cinema

• Didactic strategies
• (1) face-to-face discussion on the basis of
  online course
• (2) viewing and class discussions on the
  analysis of specific films
• (3) interactive learning groups of 4 students
  work together during the whole semester on a
  topic, writing a paper collaboratively using WIKI
  
• (4) videoconferencing

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Case II Literature and Cinema

• Mix of technologies
• - syllabus/course documents online
  (GALATEA-platform)
• - e-mail
• - chat
• - discussion forum
• - WIKI-environment
• - videoconferencing
• Multilingual approach
• Dutch, English, French, Spanish

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Case II Literature and Cinema

• Possibilities for virtual mobility
• - Extension of partnership (Helsinki University
  of Technology, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid,
  but also Erasmus students)
• - Explore use of new technologies

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Implementing virtual mobility

• Organisational challenges
• e.g. Calendar
• Increase of workload for teachers
• Pedagogical challenges
• e.g. Language
• Heterogeneity student group
• Technical challenges
• e.g. Support

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Implementing Virtual MobilityDiscussion
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Discussion

• Discussion in 3 parallel groups (45)
• Questions
• - Benefits/possibilities of Virtual Erasmus for
  your institution
• Organisational/pedagogical/technical challenges
  and solutions
• Your experiences with virtual mobility
• Reporting from group discussions and final
  discussion (15)