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SVC Final <strong>Evaluation</strong>. Background Report Lepori and Probst<br />
8.1.2 Virtueller <strong>Campus</strong> Supportzentrum, Universität Bern<br />
General description and organisation<br />
Organisational form: network. Collaboration between <strong>the</strong> Abteilung Unterricht und Medien (AUM) <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Institut für<br />
Medizinische Lehre and <strong>the</strong> Institut für Erziehungswissenschaften (IfE). Good collaboration with IT services.<br />
Website http://www.vc.unibe.ch<br />
Mission and strategy<br />
The VC-Supportzentrum is a network that promotes and supports teaching with new media and technologies on <strong>the</strong><br />
levels <strong>of</strong> content, didactics, technology, finances and organisation. The <strong>of</strong>fer for teachers includes information events,<br />
training, consulting, technical resources such as platforms for learning and o<strong>the</strong>r tools, etc.<br />
There is no explicit university e-learning strategy and involvement <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> university direction is quite an open issue.<br />
Activities<br />
SVC projects: SVC projects <strong>of</strong> UNIBE have been essentially developed without <strong>the</strong> participation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> CCSP because<br />
<strong>the</strong> CCSP started in Summer 2005. The CCSP supports some projects in <strong>the</strong> production <strong>of</strong> multimedia materials.<br />
Support and o<strong>the</strong>r activities besides SVC projects:<br />
• LMS: ILIAS (WebCT Vista, OLAT and Moodle will no longer be supported, for OLAT and Moodle <strong>the</strong> request is too<br />
low, WebCT Vista users can change to SWITCH Blackboard Vista)<br />
• Organisation <strong>of</strong> 8 elearning colloquia with totally 18 speakers and 20-30 participants per colloquium<br />
• Courses for teachers: 12 courses, 225 participants (drastically reduced because a fee <strong>of</strong> 20.-/hour was introduced)<br />
– crash-courses on several topics<br />
• Individual consulting<br />
• Internet platform as information source for teachers interested in elearning<br />
• Small local elearning projects founded every year by UNIBE (duration per project: 1 year, max. funding 30,000.-<br />
CHF per project, overall max 150,000 CHF)<br />
Competences: usability evaluation, courses, development <strong>of</strong> media, podcasting.<br />
Resources<br />
Collaborators: 11 collaborators (media and e-learning specialists), most founded by <strong>the</strong> two Institutions AUM and IfE. 2<br />
FTEs founded by SVC.<br />
Future perspectives<br />
In December 2007, <strong>the</strong> Senate <strong>of</strong> UNIBE decided to support <strong>the</strong> CCSP for <strong>the</strong> next 2 years, each year with 1,5 FTE and<br />
cash 15,000.- CHF per year, which will ensure <strong>the</strong> existence <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> CCSP for that period and its functions for <strong>the</strong> whole<br />
university.<br />
Remarks and comments<br />
The CCSP’s involvement in SVC projects is ra<strong>the</strong>r low due to <strong>the</strong> late opening <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> CCSP (all but one project already<br />
existed before). It mainly consists in organising <strong>the</strong> monitoring visits and producing some multimedia materials (e.g.<br />
making a unitary design for all animations <strong>of</strong> one course). Most activities are for developing an elearning culture at<br />
university <strong>of</strong> Bern (courses, colloquia, LMS, small projects).<br />
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