EC Forum: 'From the Crisis to Recovery - the Role of Higher Education Institutions and Business Co-operation
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EADTU speaking about entrepreneurship, at the Thematic Forum 'From the Crisis to Recovery - the Role of Higher Education Institutions and Business Co-operation', February 2010
The European Commission in partnership with the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic and the Masaryk University in Brno organized a thematic forum on "From the Crisis to Recovery - the Role of Higher Education Institutions and Business Co-operation" in Masaryk University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic, on 2nd – 3rd February 2010. This forum is part of the University-Business Dialogue initiative launched by the European Commission to improve the cooperation between Higher Education and Business and to provide on European level a platform for a lasting dialogue between the relevant stakeholders.
ERASMUS COORDINATOR MEETING 2010
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ERASMUS COORDINATOR MEETING 2010
1-2 February 2010, Brussels
Erasmus projects selected for Community funding, presentation of projects, exchange of good practices, challenges in project management. EADTU among Good Practice examples with Cross Border Virtual Entrepreneurship (CBVE), see the EACEA Trends presentation
More information here.
Download Book Cross Border Virtual Entrepreneurship
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CBVE Consortium: Cross Border Virtual Entrepreneurship: European funded research on flexible modality entrepreneurship
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NEW BOOK PUBLICATION - Second Publication in the 'Cross Border' Series
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- On: 16.11.2009 16:00:29
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NEW BOOK PUBLICATION
Cross Border Virtual Entrepreneurship (CBVE)
European Funded Research on Flexible Modality Entrepreneurship Education and Training
Cornelis Adrianus (Kees-Jan) van Dorp (Eds.)
ISBN: 978-90-79730-03-2
© 2009, European Association of Distance Teaching Universities (EADTU)
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6th ICE CONFERENCE
The 6th International ICE Conference on Education will be held in Samos, Greece on (July 8-10, 2010). It will provide a forum for scientific debate and constructive interaction in a multi cultural social environment, and a platform for scientists, teachers and researchers to present their work and discuss the challenges worldwide known in education.
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The Largest Global E-Learning Conference - ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN 2009
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The Largest Global E-Learning Conference - ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN 2009
EADTU speaking at this year's ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN Conference Session with Strategic Challenges for Open and Distance Learning Institutions in the Post-2010 Decade, by Kees-Jan van Dorp, EADTU, The Netherlands
The associated session "Strategic Challenges for Public Spending in the Post-2010 Decade" (FIN62) is now online and can be viewed at http://www.online-educa.com/programme_detail.php?id=f5
Chaired by: Lieve Van den Brande from the European Commission (Belgium)
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Successful Conference Event - ICL 2009
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Successful Conference Event - ICL 2009
On 23-25 September last, the International 2009 ICL Conference on Interactive Computer Aided Learning, took place in Villach (Austria). This exiting conference exchanged relevant trends and research results as well as practical experiences in the field. Renowned keynotes from all continents as well as interactive audience-panel sessions, made the conference an event not to miss out on. Be sure to mark your calendar for ICL’s next conference: ICL2010 will be held from Sept 29 to Oct 01, 2010. Information on Conference proceedings 2009, shortly online here: http://www.icl-conference.org/archive.htm
'Remote Internships' go mainstream with the project EU-VIP: Enterprise-University Virtual Placements
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- On: 11.09.2009 12:33:03
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'Remote Internships' go mainstream with the project EU-VIP*: Enterprise-University Virtual Placements
Since more and more organisations operate internationally, the pressure on education professionals increases to arrange work placements introducing students to an (international) working environment. EU-VIP enhances the quality, efficiency and impact of international work placements by focusing on how to organise these placements, thereby boosting interaction between HEIs and enterprises using the advantages of the newest technologies.
EU-VIP provides the necessary (technical, pedagogical, organisational) models and services for (1) virtual mobility activities to prepare and follow-up students who go physically abroad for a placement, (2) fully virtual placements, from selection, preparation, execution to follow-up.
The HEIs involved have established links with companies, ensuring available work placements to set up pilots to test out the different models. End-users (students, teachers and company representatives) are trained in the use of new technologies for organising (virtual) work placements. They are also brought together at regular meetings to identify (dis)advantages of the models, critical success factors, quality indicators, evaluation criteria. A guidebook (online and printed) collects all results and provides concrete, validated procedures, guidelines and recommendations. All training materials are published online so they can be used independently by other interested HEIs and companies who wish to engage in (virtual) work placements. Virtual mobility activities, to prepare those who go physically abroad for a work placement, result in a more fit-for-purpose matching of students and companies. Virtual follow-up systems enable more knowledge exchange between the HEIs, companies and students on tutoring issues, tasks, student performance. Fully virtual placements allow more students who for some reason cannot go abroad to benefit from an international experience, learn a foreign language and acquire intercultural communication skills in a business context.
P1 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
P2 EuroPACE ivzw
P3 Teknillinen korkeakoulu
P4 Erhversakademiet Lillebaelt
P5 EFMD
P6 European Association of Distance Teaching Universities
P7 FernUniversität in Hagen
P8 Katholieke Hogeschool Leuven
P9 Laurea Ammattikorkeakoulu
P10 Zachodniopomorska Szkoła Biznesu
P11 Turun yliopisto
P12 ALMA MATER STUDIORUM – UNIVERSITA’ DI BOLOGNA
P13 Università degli Studi di Padova
P14 Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
P15 Coimbra Group
P16 Board of European Students of Technology
* Lifelong Learning Programme, ERASMUS Co-operation between Universities and Enterprises)
Stimulating Employability through Cross Sector Virtual Mobility - European funded research on flexible modality internships
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Learn how to flexibilise education and training
C.A. van Dorp (Eds.)
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Dorp, C.A. van (Eds). Stimulating European Employability through Cross Sector Virtual Mobility: European Funded Research on Flexible Modality Internships. By: Dorp, C.A. van, Virkus, S., Egaña y Espinosa de los Monteros. A.H. de, Baan, M. K., Sepe, R., Stefanelli, C., Lansu, A., Lohr, A., Jasinska, M., and A. Wodecki. Publication co-funded by the Leonardo da Vinci programme (Lifelong Learning). European Association of Distance Teaching Universities (EADTU),
NEWS Good Practice Example in "Recommendations from the Thematic Monitoring Group on e-learning (TG5)" to the Commission (pdf, 126 pages); download the full report here.
Show case "Cross Sector Virtual Mobility (CSVM)" included in "Synthesis report from the LdV thematic monitoring group 5: E-learning" (pdf, 31 pages); download the full report here.
EACEA Approval ERASMUS Multilateral project (Virtual Campuses)
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EACEA Approval ERASMUS Multilateral project (Virtual Campuses)
Innovative OER in European HE
Abstract
The Bologna process beyond 2010 has to focus on the supply of enhanced educational opportunities and the quality of teaching and learning in the Area of HE. The EAHE will get more in depth by creating open and flexible teaching and learning spaces in all domains, for all ages and all over Europe. The Open Educational Resource (OER) movement, initiated by MIT only some years ago and now expanding globally, is enabling the best products of universities to be made available to all capable of learning at the tertiary level, whether they have yet to enter higher education or wish to continue their study beyond graduation. The new Bologna must embrace the core of traditional university-centered education and the far larger penumbra of university-generated learning opportunities, of which OER’s are one. The OER movement has come to Europe only recently, but with a different approach, in the Open Courseware Consortium referred to as the second generation of OER. Frontrunner is OpenLearn of the British Open University. OpenEr of the Dutch OU has followed and next the EADTU MORIL project (Multilingual Open Resources for Independent Learning). It is the roll-out of a concept with learning modules (not just content) in three tracks: (1) access to open courses, (2) access to courses through free registration for services like assessment of competencies and learning communities and (3) access to intensive tutoring, examinations and certification. MORIL: Multilingual Open Resources for Independent Learning, has spurred awareness about OER among ten Open and Distance Teaching Universities (ODTUs) within the EADTU membership. Start up activities within MORIL have been executed with OUUK,OUNL, Spain, Aberta (Universia), Nettuno, Anadolu. A strong conceptual basis for OER in Europe is created with links to social learning and constructive learning with peers. This approach is respected in the world (OCW Consortium, UNESCO). At the other hand, large differences are observed between the frontrunners (OU UK, OU NL, MORIL) and the other European universities. A lot has to be realized in line with the innovation cycle in successive phases of awareness raising, strategy building - institutional frameworks, pedagogic models, business cooperation, and pilot experiments. All individual efforts the EADTU members are to be consolidated under one prospective portal pointing to member OER repositories. This European project is to valorise the members' best practices concerning the development of OERs: pilot studies will be conducted into areas where OER functionalities can be achieved. This European project distinguishes (a selection of) five "study" workpackages: 1. OER widening participation (best practice test beds), 2. OER multi campus (associations' stakeholder sessions), 3. OER internationalisation (manuals), 4. Quality in OER (criteria for OER), 5. European OER portal (accessible open courses). The total of all workpackages will generate a composite manual, a handbook, on how to deal with OER. The project is composed of an: (1) Observatory: all the Open and Distance Teaching Universities, for development questions, monitoring and guiding the activities of the pilots; (2) A core group (of the observatory): OUNL, OUUK and FernUni for performing editorials of the composite manual, the handbook on dealing with OER; (3) Workpackage leaders: running and writing the five workpackage results, for providing chapter reports to the final manual on: 1. OER widening participation (OUUK), 2. OER multi campus (KU Leuven association), 3. OER internationalisation (OUNL), 4. Quality in OER (EADTU), 5. European OER portal (EADTU). As with the concern of Lisbon, educators will have also to play a new role in the education and training of 25+, since the demographic change will reshape a demand for complex skills for many more people (New skills for new jobs, Anticipating and matching labour market and skills needed, 2008).
ICL KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Kees-Jan van Dorp, Association of Distance Teaching Universities (EADTU), Research Director
"Adding Value to Open and Distance Education in the Post-2010 Decade"
The end of the decade is approaching. Europe's universities are getting ready to materialise their strategies for post-2010. How well equipped are today's universities for tomorrow's demands? In face of enormous socio-economic and demographic challenges, Europe requires more advanced educational performance, which better contributes to innovation, competitiveness and economic growth. Educational systems and associated business models must be agile enough to respond to, and survive, the changing external factors. Universities are faced with high demand from STEM occupations, against lagging student numbers and unpleasant changes in national funding schemes. Ascertaining ones role and place within the knowledge society is pivotal not only for conventional (research-based) universities, but also for open and distance teaching universities (education-based). Whereas traditional universities commence strategies on serving the lifelong learner, open and distance teaching universities learn that sole education delivery without acts of innovation and entrepreneurship is draining. To be ready for the next decade, universities must search to create added value and accordingly innovate their business models. The year 2009, proclaimed to be the year of creativity and innovation by the European Commission, should lead the exploration of new entrepreneurial possibilities. In this conference address, the open and distance teaching universities in particular, are assessed on their potential to innovate beyond flexible education: generating new modes of academic and commercial entrepreneurship including the launch of new generation (networked) business incubation. It is evident that universities cannot do without creativity and innovation: it is the engine of (long-term) prosperity not only for universities, but for enterprises, economy and society as a whole.
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Entrepreneurship Seminar
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Entrepreneurship:
Education and Training by Flexible Modality
Proceedings Report
http://www.eadtu.nl/cbve/files/Entrepreneurship Seminar Proceedings Report.pdf
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