Event:

TEMPUS Joint European Project EQIBELT
1^st Policy Workshop on
Creating University E-Learning Vision and Strategy

Location:

Dubrovnik, Croatia

G     University of Dubrovnik, Ćira Carića 4, Dubrovnik

Date:

Friday, March 3 - Sunday, March 5, 2006

Lecturers:

�     Dr. Tony Bates, EQIBELT project expert

�     Experts from EU universities - EQIBELT project partners

�     Experts from HR universities

�     Representatives of HR university and faculty managements

�     Representatives of HR Government

�     Practitioners from HR universities

Audience (participants):

�     Vice-rectors for teaching, development or quality improvement

�     Vice-deans for teaching, development or quality improvement of faculties, schools and departments

�     Members of university bodies responsible for teaching, quality improvement or university development

�     Members of government bodies responsible for implementation of e-learning methodology and technology

�     Members of EQIBELT project team and university's strategy teams

�     (Optionally) University teachers involved or interested in e-learning

�     (Optionally) Students involved or interested in e-learning

Purpose:

¥      to discuss opportunities and challenges of using information technology and e-learning as tools to foster transformation and enhancement of higher education system in Croatia

¥      to help appointed university's 'e-learning strategy teams' to create e-learning vision and strategy documents

¥      to learn and to collect experience from EU universities about a way they use e-learning technology, about their e-learning strategy documents and about process of creating e-learning strategy documents

¥      to exchange and to collect ideas, thoughts and opinions on e-learning from all stakeholders of higher education system in HR and systemize them

Questions to be discussed and answered:

þ      Opportunities and challenges of introducing e-learning technology into university education:

ü  What are our goals: why we want to introduce e-learning, what we want to change / to improve / to add?

ü  What should be changed in university education system and in university teaching and learning and how these changes can be supported by information, communication and e-learning technology

ü  Relationship between Bologna process and e-learning

ü  Which organizational models for implementation and sustainable support to e-learning are suitable for HR universities involved in the project?

ü  Which financial models for implementation and sustainable support to e-learning are suitable for HR universities involved in the project?

ü  Should we and how encourage and stimulate teachers and students to use e-learning technology?

ü  What is the role of the government in process of implementation of e-learning within higher education system?

þ      Structure of e-learning strategic documents:

ü  Specific strategic documents on e-learning or e-learning incorporated into general strategic documents?

ü  Number of strategic documents (vision, policy, implementation plan, rules and procedures)?

ü  What level of elaboration of details in strategy is reasonable / effective for implementation?

þ      Process of creation of e-learning strategic documents:

ü  Who should be involved?

ü  How to increase participation of management, teachers and students?

ü  What methodology to use for creating and implementing e-learning strategy?

ü  One-time effort or continuing process?

Methodology:

2     Presentation by workshop lecturers

2     Q&A sessions after presentations

2     General discussion sessions

2     Questionnaire on basic criteria for implementation of e-learning

Language:

English