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SVC Final Evaluation. Background Report Lepori and Probst 8.1.2 Virtueller Campus Supportzentrum, Universität Bern General description and organisation Organisational form: network. Collaboration between the Abteilung Unterricht und Medien (AUM) of the Institut für Medizinische Lehre and the Institut für Erziehungswissenschaften (IfE). Good collaboration with IT services. Website http://www.vc.unibe.ch Mission and strategy The VC-Supportzentrum is a network that promotes and supports teaching with new media and technologies on the levels of content, didactics, technology, finances and organisation. The offer for teachers includes information events, training, consulting, technical resources such as platforms for learning and other tools, etc. There is no explicit university e-learning strategy and involvement of the university direction is quite an open issue. Activities SVC projects: SVC projects of UNIBE have been essentially developed without the participation of the CCSP because the CCSP started in Summer 2005. The CCSP supports some projects in the production of multimedia materials. Support and other activities besides SVC projects: • LMS: ILIAS (WebCT Vista, OLAT and Moodle will no longer be supported, for OLAT and Moodle the request is too low, WebCT Vista users can change to SWITCH Blackboard Vista) • Organisation of 8 elearning colloquia with totally 18 speakers and 20-30 participants per colloquium • Courses for teachers: 12 courses, 225 participants (drastically reduced because a fee of 20.-/hour was introduced) – crash-courses on several topics • Individual consulting • Internet platform as information source for teachers interested in elearning • Small local elearning projects founded every year by UNIBE (duration per project: 1 year, max. funding 30,000.- CHF per project, overall max 150,000 CHF) Competences: usability evaluation, courses, development of media, podcasting. Resources Collaborators: 11 collaborators (media and e-learning specialists), most founded by the two Institutions AUM and IfE. 2 FTEs founded by SVC. Future perspectives In December 2007, the Senate of UNIBE decided to support the CCSP for the next 2 years, each year with 1,5 FTE and cash 15,000.- CHF per year, which will ensure the existence of the CCSP for that period and its functions for the whole university. Remarks and comments The CCSP’s involvement in SVC projects is rather low due to the late opening of the CCSP (all but one project already existed before). It mainly consists in organising the monitoring visits and producing some multimedia materials (e.g. making a unitary design for all animations of one course). Most activities are for developing an elearning culture at university of Bern (courses, colloquia, LMS, small projects). 59
SVC Final Evaluation. Background Report Lepori and Probst 8.1.3 Centre Nouvelles Technologies et Enseignement, Université de Fribourg General description and organisation Organisational form: centre, created in 1996, some members have teaching responsibilities on BA or MA level (stay in touch with students). The CCSP depends on the commission enseignement which is directly related to the rectorate. Website http://nte.unifr.ch Mission and strategy Promote and observe the pedagogical use of electronic tools for documentation and communication at UNIFR – encourage the use of ICT and observe its impact. The strategic goal is to implement blended learning courses. The rectorate supports four types of actions: annual project call, teachers’ training, Moodle and helpdesk service. Activities SVC projects: 3 projects as leading house: 2 first call (ELO, Embryology), 1 second call (Antiquit@s), development of pedagogical scenarios, technological development and maintenance, evaluation. Mandate EDUTECH to continue and develop the technological support activities for SVC projects. Support and other activities besides SVC projects: • Support of Moodle (nearly 5000 students in nearly 500 courses). Claroline and WebCT are no longer supported • Pedagogical scenario for local elearning projects – annual call for projects, about 10 projects per year • Evaluation of local elearning projects • Training sessions (workshops and seminars) and support for teachers • Research and technology watch Competences: Moodle, user-friendliness, formative evaluation, Flash. Resources Collaborators: currently 7 collaborators; will be reduced to 4-5 collaborators after the end of SVC funding. Future perspectives Funding for the Centre NTE is guaranteed by the rectorate. As LMS, only Moodle will be supported; workshops, seminars and elearning helpdesk activities will be continued, the yearly local call for projects will be maintained, but probably limited. The CCSP plans to do more (applied) research. The Centre NTE will be decoupled from the didactique universitaire (which is part of sciences de l’éducation in the faculté des lettres), but the new organisational structure is not yet decided. Remarks and comments The website of Centre NTE provides a lot of information, it looks interactive and current, with different blogs by the collaborators. It seems that the centre is well accepted and integrated in the university and that it aims at introducing innovation. Collaboration with SVC projects seems high, and also the local call for projects is an important instrument for the diffusion of ICT in learning scenarios. The centre is active in research and informs about conferences on its website. It seems that this is a good working centre. Even though it has to reduce the number of collaborators due to the end of SVC funding, it seems that the CCSP will be able to continue most of its activities. 60
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experts ont retrouvé les personnes
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Rapport des évaluateurs du Campus
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sur lʼaide aux universités (LAU)
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Introduction The Swiss Virtual Camp
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