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Below you'll find everything you want to know about BLENDED LEARNING. You just have to know something about e-learning and then you can start. Also a very good idea to have such a course during your SU. Think about and apply for one of the positions in a team to [log in to unmask] 

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BLENDED LEARNING A proposal based on the results of 2002 year-plan project EURECA. And the project is not over yet .

 

European Education Campaign - EURECA, a project run in 2002 by AEGEE has been concluded with a draft of a new European Education Programme. It proposes to introduce Blended Learning, a wider use of summer courses combined with e-learning. Education programmes should be implemented with special focus on exchanges between the EU and the candidate countries.

In 2006 the ERASMUS program will be over and the European Commission is looking for new ideas of educational programmes. Blended Learning can be a solution but we still have to refine the e-learning part and lobby for our results.

 

Therefore we are looking for people to form a new project team to follow up the results of EURECA with a special focus on lobbying for the results of the project.

 

The following positions are currently open to form an efficient team: 

-          main co-ordinator

-          IT responsible

-          PR responsible

-          FR and lobbying responsible

-          Seminars co-ordinator

 

But what is exactly blended learning?

 

A possible set-up of Blended Learning:

-          Courses in various subjects would start with an introduction during SUMMER COURSES

-          The courses would continue afterwards in virtual settings, i.e. involving methods of E- LEARNING like virtual classrooms

-          Participants from different European universities would virtually work together on projects and assignments in cross-cultural groups 

-          Courses should be conducted in English and/or language of host country (especially languages/culture courses)

-          After successful completion of the subject, students could obtain (optional) credits according to ECTS

 

For the administration we would suggest: 

-          a common database of available summer/e-courses in different fields of studies

-          a centralised selection procedure

-          a mobility grant to be available for travel costs and the course fee at a low level

 

Benefits of this proposal: 

-         Increasing possibilities for intercultural learning and for fostering European identity especially for those not able to participate in long- term exchanges

-         Promoting ICT in university world and therefore enhancing the idea of a "Europe of knowledge"

-          Introducing e-learning in as method of instruction in conventional universities 

-         Following the global trend and creating virtual classrooms with a European dimension in teaching and research 

       -          Taking advantage of the summer break of students

-          Investing non-used resources of the universities

-         Involving a lower budget compared to long-term exchanges, therefore increasing the amount of students participating in education programmes

 

So what we need right now is people who:

  1.. are good in lobbying at institutions 
  2.. feel able to harmonise the summer seminars with European universities 
  3.. bear certain knowledge on e-learning
 

We are looking forward YOU as a team member. So get prepared and don`t hesitate to contact me ;)

 

Greetings,

ANIKO

 



Aniko Vass 
Projects Responsible AEGEE Europe 
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