Aim of the project

To improve the quality of students’ mobility experience through the means of Virtual Learning Environments and online technologies.

Objectives

• To share the current practise with the European project partners, as to mobility student support, particularly investigating how technology is being utilised to support students.
• To examine the factors that effect students on international placement or exchange.
• To examine the potential of the technology each project partner is currently using to support the students more effectively.
• To identify potential models and criteria for assessing students on work placement, and identifying how this could be carried out using Virtual Learning Environments.
• To apply and disseminate a current model that has been effectively evaluated and produce two best practise/case studies.
• To develop guidelines for effective support, using the technology, for international mobility students.

Results

• Generic needs analysis of mobility students.
• New methodology, utilising a Virtual Learning Environment, to support mobility students.
• Models, criteria and tools for effective assessment of performance within the workplace as part of the Virtual Learning Environment.
• Requirements for the Virtual Learning Environments or guidelines for adaptation of the Virtual Learning Environments for the purposes of student support.
• Guidelines for reorganization of educational processes in order to assure effective support of mobility students when using a Virtual Learning Environment.
• Disseminative knowledge transfer from project partners to their national higher education partners.

Contracting organisation

Helen Keegan, Salford University, Great Britain
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Participating organisations

University of Calabria, Italy. Website: http://www.unical.it/
FH Joanuueum Graz, Austria. Website: http://www.fh-joanneum.at/zml
Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania. Website: http://skktg.vdu.lt/index.php/en
Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland. Website: http://www.pcz.pl/
D. Tsenov Academy of Economics, Bulgaria. Website: http://www.uni-svishtov.bg/

Contact person

Dr. Audronė Allan, Center for Quality of Studies, Vytautas Magnus University