Title: CEENet
1- CEENet
- Potential and Activities
- Kiev, 30 September, 2004
- Jacek Gajewski
- Sylwia Rudnik
2What is CEENet?
- CEENet
- Central and Eastern European Networking
Association is an association (organized and
subcontracted by Vienna University, registered in
Austria, HQ in Warsaw) of 26 national
organizations from CEE and fSU countries, which
focus on academic, research and educational
computer networking.
3Geographical Scope of CEENet
4CEENet Educational Activities
- CEENet organizes workshops on
- Network Policy
- Network Managerial Methods
- Network Technology
- Distance Education Technology (E-course
Incubators)
5CEENet Potential
- CEENet maintains direct contacts to ca. 80 ICT
educational organizations in 20 countries and to
ca. 600 former students, often in key positions
in CEE/fSU ICT sector. - CEENet maintains indirect (one step only via
respective NREN) to major universities and
research institutes in all new EU member states
(and beyond) - CEENet was/is a member of several international
ICT projects funded by EC, NATO Science
Committee, Open Society Institute, UNDP etc.,
involving EU and (pre-) accession countries.
6CEENet Potential
- Human network and knowledge base
- 30 lecturers in all aspects of networking
- 20 course designers and developers for face to
face and distance teaching. - 8 years of experience in logistic and management
of educational and training events in ICT - 4 years of experience with distance education
from design to running courses - Access to almost 30 member NRENs and more than
600 former students.
7_at_DULINE Project (FP5 Grundvig program)
- Two e-courses for educators have been created,
tested and evaluated - Course Design Course (for e-designers)
- Online Tutoring Course (for e-tutors)
- Web-based course material has been produced by
experts from 8 countries and translated into 7
languages (English, Portuguese, Danish, Swedish,
Finnish, Estonian and Lithuanian).
8_at_DULINE Evaluated Models
Pattern 1 International (same culture) groups
of learners and tutors
(Finland, Sweden,
Estonia) Pattern 2 National groups with
international peer review
(Lithuania, Portugal) Pattern 3 National groups
(Scotland, Denmark)Pattern 4 Fully mixed
international groups (15 nations,
5 time zones, 5 religions) across an existing
distance learning network
(CEENet)