International Courses delivered by EADTU Members across Europe

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International Courses delivered by EADTU Members
across Europe

• Towards Lisbon 2010
• Rome November 2005
• Joergen Bang
• President
• European Association of Distance Teaching
• Universities (EADTU)

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EADTU mission

• The mission of EADTU is to contribute to the
  development of a European Learning Space by
  supporting the enhancement of learning through
  the use of technology (e.g. e-learning) and by
  promoting state-of- the-art educational networks
  in the field of lifelong and flexible
  learning, virtual mobility, and quality
  assurance and accreditation.

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The European framework

• THE LISBON STRATEGY to become the most
  competitive and dynamic knowledge based economy
  in the world 2010 in which E-leaning play an
  essential role
• THE BOLOGNA PROCESS towards the creation of a
  European Area of Higher Education by 2010
  realized through collaboration among high quality
  higher education institutions.

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e-Bologna

• In 2003, EADTU launched a strategy called
  e-Bologna with the overall goal to create a
  European e-environment for the Bologna process.
• The ambition is to create a digital network
  integrating the activities of the national and
  regional universities into a synergy network in
  e-learning

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Academic collaboration

• A Task Force on Academic Collaboration (TFAC)
  was established in February 2005 as a result of
  a meeting among associations within EADTU
  focusing on
• Virtual mobility - offering an international/
  European learning experience
• Curriculum collaboration joint degrees, joint
  course production
• Non-formal collaboration net-based discussions.

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Portal of international courses

• Courses should be in English
• (later may be other European languages)
• Courses should be e-learning courses -
  distance education
• Information template
• field, university, country, title, keywords,
  ECTS, level of course (BA-MA), hyperlink to
  elaborated description at home university

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EPECA

• Embedded Portal for European-wide Course
  Accessibility
• A Minerva project addressing the 2006 priorities
  providing access to existing resources in
  academic education
• courses listed on the EPECA portal remain
  embedded in their own pedagogical concept and
  methodological/ didactical approach as develop by
  the offering university. Each course will
  have/keep its own didactical model. However, the
  course must make it possible to be delivered as a
  stand-alone course for distance education, in the
  English language (not excluding the origin
  language). Courses should maintain their quality
  level, as was originally intended.

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EADTU strategy

• The EPECA application together with the
  recently accepted e-learning project on
  Virtual Mobility and the already running
  project on E-excellence offer a superb
  framework for exploring collaboration
  opportunities within EADTU.
• All three initiatives in combination support
  the long-term EADTU strategy of creating a
  European learning space for lifelong open and
  flexible distance education

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• THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION
• Joergen Bang
• President EADTU
• Tel. [phone]
• jbang_at_imv.au.dk