Virtual Campus for Digital Students

From Re.ViCa

The Virtual Campus for Digital Students (ViCaDis) was selected in 2007, and funded from 1 October 2007 until 30 September 2009 by the European Commission - DG Education & Culture under the Lifelong Learning programme.

The ViCaDis web site is at http://www.vicadis.net/

Summary

In ViCaDiS, a range of ODL actors from EU and CEE countries seek to enhance international eLearning by shifting focus from the institutional learning environment to the personal learning environment (PLE). The main objective is to build a virtual campus for digital students aimed at providing open educational resources and tools available and accessible for all students and to ensure the interoperability between the different eLearning environments used in the partner universities. Digital students are defined as young adult students who have grown up with an everyday use of technology and who are accustomed to using technology.

According to its web site:

ViCaDiS aims at providing open educational resources and tools available and accessible for all students and to ensure the interoperability between the different eLearning environments used in the partner universities. An innovative multilingual ICT-based environment unique in Europe (as an international virtual campus), it will incorporate several open educational resources (library, glossary, external links, student projects, course activities), open educational tools (wiki, blog, forum, calendar, podcasting, instant messaging communication, audio-video conferencing over IP, RSS, mobile text messaging, mobile accessibility to ViCaDiS) and will promote social networking as an instructional method.

Expected outcomes

Main expected outcomes of the project are:

• Open personal learning environment methodology
• ViCaDiS scenarios
• ViCaDiS multilingual virtual campus: online and mobile environment based on Open Educational Resources
• Multilingual web portal
• Multilingual Set of Guidelines (on paper, CD and online)
• ViCaDiS evaluation
• Promotional and multiplication materials

Partners

• Polytechnic University of Timisoara - Romania
• Oulu University of Applied Sciences, School of Engineering - Finland
• Euro-contact Business School - Hungary
• University of Miskolc, NHRDEC - Hungary
• Università Degli Studi Di Palermo - Italy
• Visioni di Caro Arch. Ernesta - Italy
• Baltijos Edukaciniu Technologiju Institutas - Lithuania
• Bridgeman SRL - Romania
• University of Brighton - UK
• JME Associates Ltd - UK

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