Work package 1

Updated WP1.1. report: From VIRCLASS to Virtual Campus

The first report from november 2009 was sent to partners for some adjustments. The changes are incorporated in the version from March 2010: WP1.1. report From VIRCLASS to Virtual Campus March 2010

WP1-REPORT From VIRCLASS to Virtual Campus

This report is an important document for our work towards a sustainable Virtual Campus. The report was sent to Brussels 24.Nov. 2009.

The report gives an overview of the strength in our Coursortium but also the challenges we have to meet before we can sign an agreement for an international specialisation and a Virtual Campus. This document will give important information to the discussions that have to go on in our partners institutions during the next months.

The report is available here: WP1-REPORT 24 November 2009

Progress plan for making the Framework Agreement for a future Virtual Campus: timeschedule

Meeting in Madrid 5-6 March 2009

Remmelt Veenkamp went to Madrid to meet colleagues to discuss the result of the WP1 survey. The report from the meeting can be read here: Minute Madrid meeting

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SURVEY -

Working group 1 want to explore the possibilities for the establishment of a future international specialisation in comparative social work on BA level. Deadline 14 january 2009. The survey has been sent to the leaders and project contacts of the partner institutions.

 

Virtual Campus for International Social Work

The aims of WP1 will be to develop a shared framework, in terms of a Virtual Campus with a common coherent set of modules for an international specialisation of social work as addressed in the needs analysis in section 4. This will be done by collecting and analysing information from all partners about their actual programme structure, and the legal framework. The second step will be to design the framework of an international specialisation of social work in a Virtual Campus setting and the third step will be to present and agree upon the framework between the partners in the consortium.

Deliverables

1.1  From virtual class to a Virtual Campus
The intention of this report is to give an overview of each partner institutions framework to sort out the possibilities for integration of an international specialisation for social work in a Virtual Campus setting.
The information to be collected  regards:
  1. The relevant regulatory frameworks, on an institutional, national and international (Bologna) level and issues like accreditation, quality assessment
  2. Actual programme objectives and structure;
  3. ICT equipment and competences available and necessary for proceeding from an international virtual classroom to an international Virtual Campus;
  4. International student mobility. A policy and practice comparison of virtual and physical mobility between partners

This information will be collected by e-mails, online discussions etc. It will be analyzed; conclusions will be made as well as recommendations.
These results will be presented in a report and be published on the www.VIRCLASS.net and the www.eusw.unipr.it, institutional websites; and press release in the partner countries.


1.2  Framework agreement

Based on the 1.1 report  delivery 1.2 will present an agreement about :

  1. How to align regulatory frameworks to enable the realization of a shared international specialization and also comply with the different national systems and institutional regulations;
  2. What will be the objectives and contents of the new international specialization and how the existing modules in the VIRCLASS courses can be integrated and which new modules need to be developed;
  3. Which (technical) facilities are conditional to be able to participate in the Virtual Campus setting. 
The document will describe the structure and the content of specialisation in the future social work in BA programmes and will be the partners agreement concerning new number of modules specified in ECTS credits. It will be a signed framework agreement concerning number of modules and themes, including copyright regulations.
The framework agreement will be published on the www.VIRCLASS.net and the www.eusw.unipr.it, institutional websites; and will be given press release in the partner countries.