The Reve project

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The Reve project

• Implementing virtual mobility in mainstream
  higher education

Katrin Bijnens EuroPACE/ KULeuven
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EuroPACE ivzw

• International network of universities,
  organisations, companies in the field of
  ICT-based education and training
• Fields of interest
• Networked eLearning
• Internationalisation
• Knowledge creation and sharing
• Lifelong learning
• Virtual Mobility

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Reve project

• coordinated by EuroPACE ivzw
• partnership of 16 universities, polytechnics,
  networks, student organisations
• E-learning programme (European Commission DG
  Education Culture)
• project duration two years
• (01/01/2005 - 31/12/2006)

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Mission

• Enhancing the impact and efficiency of
  traditional Erasmus programmes
• through the set-up and support of
  mainstream Virtual Erasmus actions in the
  European Higher Education Area

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Virtual Erasmus?

• taking courses abroad while staying at the home
  university and vice-versa
• and/or
• complementing the existing physical Erasmus
  exchange programmes with virtual preparatory and
  follow-up activities.

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Actions

• Virtual mobility course actions
• Horizontal support actions

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Virtual mobility course actions

• Result
• really working virtual mobility courses
• within a real environment of mainstream higer
  education
• Case Cinema Literature course

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Case Cinema literature course

• Course specifics
• simultaneously taught at K.U.Leuven and
  University of Granada
• duration 1 semester
• graduate/master level
• online - contact hours
• optional course for students (humanities/language/
  cultural studies)
• group of 10-20 students per partner

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Case Cinema literature course

• Mix of didactic strategies
• face-to-face discussion on the basis of online
  course
• viewing and class discussions on the analysis of
  specific films
• interactive learning (WIKI)
• videoconferencing

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Case Cinema literature course

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

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Case Cinema literature course

• Possibilities for virtual mobility
• collaboration with students from different
  countries
• explore use of new technologies
• Challenges
• Organisational (calendar)
• Pedagogical (language, heterogeneity student
  group)
• Technical (support)

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Horizontal support actions

• Enabling and providing the necessary services for
  the course actions
• Services
• Models and procedures
• Training
• Dissemination
• Result online manual

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Challenges

• Overcoming obstacles before being able to really
  implement virtual mobility into mainstream
  education
• Accreditation and credit transfer
• Agreements
• Localisation

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Expected project results

• Real working virtual mobility actions courses
  within the real environment of mainstream
  education of the partners
• Virtual Mobility Manual
• Supporting tools and techniques
• Effective dissemination

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More information

• http//reve.europace.org
• reve_at_europace.be

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