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SVC Final Evaluation. Background Report Lepori and Probst
Institution CCSP description
University of Basel LearnTechNet (LTN) is a network of services coordinated by the Akademische
Lehrentwicklung ALE, with the participation of the Universitätsrechenzentrum URZ and the
New Media Center NMC, plus associated services (university library, etc.).
University of Bern The VC-Supportzentrum is based on collaboration between the Abteilung Unterricht und
Medien (AUM) of the Institut für Medizinische Lehre and the Institut für
University of Fribourg
Erziehungswissenschaften (IfE).
The Centre Nouvelles Technologies et Enseignement (Centre NTE) has been established
in 1996 and depends on the educational commission, which depends on the rectorate of
the university.
University of Geneva The Réseau e-learning is a network coordinated by the recently established delegation of
the rectorate for elearning, including the informatics services and the teaching evaluation
units, with a small central coordinating unit.
University of Lausanne RISET (Réseau interfacultaire de Soutien Enseignement et Technologies) is a network
with a small coordination unit directed by a vice-rector, the support of specialised services
and pedagogical engineers in each of the departments. Strong collaboration with the
computer support unit; the learning engineers can thus concentrate mainly on didactical
support to projects and teachers.
University of Lucerne The E-Learning-Zentrum is a small team at the Pädagogische Hochschule Zentralschweiz
(PHZ) providing also elearning support for UNILU.
University of Neuchâtel The central unit Coordination elearning consists of the coordinator and two part-time
research collaborators; additionally there is a network in different institutes and faculties.
Continuation after the end of federal funding has yet to be decided.
University of Sankt
Gallen
The CCSP is located at the Institut für Wirtschaftspädagogik (Self-Study Team), with a
collaboration with the StudyNet Team (StudyNet is the university LMS). The CCSP has
good contacts with the faculties through a network of correspondents.
University of Zurich The elearning centre ELC provides elearning support to teachers and coordinates the
development of elearning services; it cooperate strongly with the Multimedia & E-Learning
Services, which manage the OLAT LMS and provide support for multimedia production.
University of Lugano
and SUPSI
eLab is the joint support centre of USI and SUPSI; it is administratively managed by the
USI and located in Lugano, but strongly integrated with both institutions. It is based on an
agreement signed by the heads of the two institutions.
Berner Fachhochschule InnoTeach is located at the department of engineering and information technology in Biel.
It is now integrated in one unit with the didactical services of the BFH inside the central
services at the rectorate.
Hochschule Luzern The Fachstelle Neue Lernmedien is a central service for the whole institution, directly
subordinated to the rectorate, plus a network of five elearning delegates in the different
departments.
Fachhochschule
Nordwestschweiz
Haute Ecole
Spécialisée de Suisse
occidentale
Zürcher
Fachhochschule
Fachhochschule
Ostschweiz
No single CCSP for the whole institutions. From 2008 elearning will be decentralised to the
departments, with central technical support from the IT services and a forum to ensure
exchange of information.
Cyberlearn is a network of elearning delegates in the different schools and domains of the
HES-SO with the lead, technical and financial support located in Sierre.
Network composed by teams in three schools of the ZFH – ZHAW, ZHdK, PHZH
(pedagogy, design and technology), with a small coordination unit at the Zürcher
Hochschule der Künste ZHdK in Zurich.
The Kompetenzzentrum elearning is a network with its leader at the HTW in Chur and two
representatives per department (Buchs, Chur, Rapperswil, St.Gallen) in the steering group.
Mandate and future organization yet unclear.
ETHZ The Network of Educational Technologies NET is part of the Centre for Higher Education,
an ETH infrastructure division which is directly responsible to the rector. NET has been
founded in 1996 and divides into 5 sub-units: ELBA (E-Learning-Baukasten),
groupware/LMS ,e-collaboration, Filep and the elearning strategy implementation team.
EPFL The Center for Research and Support of Training and its Technologies (CRAFT) is a
hybrid unit with both a function of service for the development of elearning at the EPFL and
an academic function as research unit on new learning technologies. For the former
mandate it depends on the vice-president education of the EPFL, for the second it
depends on the Information and Communication Technologies Department.
Table 2. Description of CCSPs
3.3 Strategic and organisational issues
In the institutions where the CCSPs have found stable positions, they have been mostly
integrated in the central services, as a part of the vice-rectorate for education; in a number of
cases, the CCSP is strongly integrated with the support service for didactics, emphasizing the
fact that it is considered as an integral part of the improvement of the educational quality. Thus,
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