Themes
The Conference will focus on the main subjects that are listed below. It addresses universities’ missions on international cooperation, student support in obtaining international educational experiences on-line and staff support in realising this.
1. International courses on-line in practice
- Examples of international courses on-line (good practices)
- Bachelor and Master programmes
- professional training
- academic cooperation and joint degrees in courses - Concepts of Virtual Mobility
- international courses
- virtual seminars
- virtual Communities
- continuous professional training and development (CPTD) - Pedagogical models for independent learning
- Electronic learning environments and international courses on-line
- Aspects of recognition and credit transfer
- Intercontinental courses
2. Tutoring and services on-line
- Student and staff support on-line
- Tutoring for international courses on-line
- On-line assessment
- Virtual mobility support portals
- Facilitating virtual internships
- Recognition: ECTS and credit transfer issues
- Enrolment and student follow-up on-line
3. Open Educational Resources
- models of OER
- institutional models
- cooperative models
- Open Content Initiatives
- learner and producer communities
- mediating technologies
- models for sustainability
- platforms and services
- user generated content
- quality Assurance in OER
- best practices
4. Business models for Lifelong Open and Flexible Learning
- exploitation models of degree courses and professional training programmes on line
- business models for bachelor and master courses
- business models for CPTD courses
- marketing models
- funding of courses (fees, employers, …)
5. Quality assurance for international courses on-line
- benchmarking instruments
- QA in Open Educational Resources
- self-assessment approaches
- experiences of third party assessments on e-learning
- improving e-learning by good-practices
- QA in e-learning : European dimension