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SVC Final Evaluation. Background Report Lepori and Probst
4.2 The status of projects at the end of 2007
We look in this section at the actual status of the projects and especially at the extent to which
their production has been concluded and they are used in education.
4.2.1 Concluded projects
The 26 concluded projects are nearly equally divided between 1 st and 2 nd series projects, plus
one from the 3 rd series. 23 project leaders or coordinators answered our questionnaire. In one
case, we received the answer that the project leader and the coordinator have left the university
already some time ago – combined with the fact that the project homepage has not been
updated for two years now, it seems that this project has been abandoned.
Out of the 23 projects that have answered the questionnaire, two have not been developed to
an extent that allows didactical use of the products – in one case, the project leader has left the
HEI and the successor was not interested in following up the project, in the other case it seems
that the development has not been concluded, fine-tuning is needed, but parts of the products
are already used. In 15 cases, the products are used regularly, and in additional 7 cases some
activities are still going on. The products are most often used as independent supplementary
material offered to the students, or for self-study or as additional material in an existing course.
In 19 cases, the products are used, in some way, in existing lectures. In 8 cases, the products
are used as mandatory standalone courses, and also in 8 cases as optional standalone
courses.
Table 7 shows the respondents’ estimation of the use of the course by students both at the
leading house and in partner institutions in the academic year 2007/08.
leading house partner institutions
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