Event:

TEMPUS Joint European Project EQIBELT
2^nd Policy Workshop: What Standards do We Need and Why? (DRAFT AGENDA)

Location:

Cavtat, Croatia

G     Hotel CROATIA, Cavtat

Date:

Thursday, June 22 - Friday, June 23, 2006

Lecturers:

�     Experts from EU universities - EQIBELT project partners:

�    Oleg Rudash,  Estonian E-University

�   Elena Caballero, Valencia University of Technology

�   Jan Thomas,  University of Vienna

�     Experts and practitioners from Croatian universities
�   Dr. Petar Pervan, Institut for Physics
�   Kristijan Zimmer, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing

Audience (participants):

�     Members of university bodies responsible for teaching, e-learning or ICT

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

�     Members of EQIBELT project team and university's e-learning teams

�     University teachers involved or interested in e-learning

�     ICT or other support staff involved or interested in e-learning

Purpose:

¥      to learn and to collect experience from EU universities about standards they use in implementing e-learning methodology and technology

¥      to help appointed university's 'e-learning strategy teams' to propose standards and recommendation documents on e-learning

¥      to start process of developing e-learning standards at Croatian partner universities

Questions to be discussed and answered:

þ      what are the main issues in choosing and implementing standards in e-learning

þ      what are the goals of defining and establishing standards in e-learning

þ      in what categories standards and recommendations can be divided (pedagogical framework, content development and e-learning development tools, e-learning environment etc.)

þ      what should be covered by standards and recommendations

þ      what standards are already available

þ      who should select and propose standards and recommendations

Methodology:

2     presentation by workshop lecturers

2     Q&A sessions after presentations

2     general discussion sessions

Language:

English