Bavaria Virtual University

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Bavaria Virtual University

• Basic Concept
• Prof. Dr. Hartmut Wunderatsch

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Overview

• Germanys history in distance education
• Students expectations on BVU
• Categories of online-lecturing
• Motivating professors for developing
  online-courses
• Professional developing process of online-courses
• Impact on organisational, technical and
  content-related concepts of BVU
• Next steps to do

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Germanys history in distance education

• Almost no experience
• Major online-lecturing projects
• FernUniversität Hagen
• Virtuelle Fachhochschule Lübeck
• Virtuelle Wirtschaftsinformatik der Universitäten
  Göttingen, Kassel, Leipzig, Saarbrücken
• Teleakademie der Fachhochschule Furtwangen
• Virtuelle Universität Karlsruhe
• Internationale Tele-Uni Freiburg, Heidelberg,
  Karlsruhe, Mannheim
• Projekt Virtueller Campus Universität Hildesheim
• Meile-projects in Bavaria

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Students expectations on BVU

• Student is enrolled at a real university
• Choice between presence- and online-lecturing
• Academic degree granted by home university
• http//www.bavaria.edu
• Student enrolls for online-lecturing at BVU
• Very communicative learning environment
• Applying for final exams at BVU
• Scores and credit points acknowledged by home
  university
• Student services at BVU
• ? Bavarian Universities have to move to
  dual-mode universities

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Categories of online-lecturing

• Virtual Seminars
• Virtual course Strategischer IT-Einsatz, Prof.
  Dr. Renninger und Prof. Dr. Wunderatsch,
  Universities of Applied Sciences Amberg-Weiden
  and Hof
• Interactive Teleteaching
• Simultaneous Teaching Business Information
  Systems, Prof. Dr. Bodendorf, FAU
  Erlangen-Nürnberg
• Computer-based Teaching
• CBT accounting, Prof. Dr. Ferstl, Bamberg
  University
• ? Mix will be commonplace and has an essential
  impact on the costs

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Motivating professors for online-teaching projects

• 30 - 200 hours per one lecture hour and even more
• 1.5 man year for a 4 hour per week course
• 0.5 man year professor
• 1.0 man year multimedia-engineering support
• 180 KDM for a 4 hour per week course of the
  simpliest type
• ? Allocation of ample financial resources
• ? Incentives to motivate professors

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Industrial production of online-courses

• Course content creating professor
• Peer
• Instruction designer
• Multimedia-engineers
• Lector
• Organize parallelism in the production process
• Quality assurance at any step
• Project management
• ? Centralization of the production process for
  effectiveness and efficiency

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Impact on organisational, technical and
content-related concepts of BVU

• Central institute operates all the student
  services
• establish high communicative learning environment
  at BVU and real universities
• install and maintain web-servers
• Institute of coordination for acknowledgement and
  production
• one for Universities and one for Universities of
  Applied Sciences
• set up acknowledgement procedures
• install and maintain production units for
  online-courses

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Next steps to do

• Work out in detail the organsiational, technical
  and content-related infrastructure of BVU
• Select - lets say 20 - pilot online-courses in
  consideration of the results of the
  Meile-projects
• Allocate resources for pilot projects
• Acknowledge pilot project courses and start to
  install and run professional production process
• Set up a learning environment at BVU and real
  universities