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Friedhelm (Fred) Nickolmann Virtual Mobility at
Virtual Erasmus Week 2006 09 March 2006

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FernUniversität in Hagen - Basics
  • The only distance teaching university in
    Germany
  • Established Dec. 1974 / Opened Dec. 1975
    by Act of Parliament of the State of
    Nordrhein-Westfalen
  • Not a national university,
  • but acting nationally (and internationally)
  • Integral part of the regular public higher
    education system
  • - Similar activities in research and
    teaching
  • - Fully in line with campus universities
  • - equal rights, equal duties
  • - same tasks and functions
  • - same standards and admission
    requirements
  • Key figures (2005/06)
  • - 44,000 students
  • - 80 professors
  • - 355 academic staff / 710 acad.
    support staff
  • - 610 administrative staff


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Students per Faculty 1999/00 // 2004/05
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Profiles and Categories of Students

2005/2006
  • Profiles
  • 29-35 years median age of students
  • 80 in employment
  • 23 earned a first academic degree already
  • 60 male --- 40 female
  • 8 foreign nationality (5 living abroad)
  • Categories

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Categories of Students from Abroad
  • Germans living or working abroad
  • Foreign nationalities with particular interest in
    German language, culture
  • and science
  • - employees in international environments
  • - preparing for physical study in Germany
  • - young academics / scientists / researchers
  • - re-emigrants
  • - former students from German campus
  • universities

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Studying from Abroad Support 1/2
  • Study material to addressees abroad sent first
    by air mail
  • Return of tests and written tasks
  • Special fax no web-assign
  • Written examinations (ex neighbouring countries)
  • Goethe Institute / German School
  • Embassy or Consulate
  • Practical course
  • ? Travel to Germany (temporal visum)
  • ? Aquivalents
  • Library services direct lending out of study
    books, copy service for articles
  • Student contact lists

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Studying from Abroad Support 2/2
  • Special admission and administration office
    (Studentisches Auslandsamt Foreign students
    office)
  • Special counsellors at faculties
  • Study centres abroad
  • Austria (7) Bregenz, Deutschlandsberg, Bad
    Goisern,
  • Saalfelden, Steyr, Villach, Wien
  • Switzerland (2) Brig, Pfäffikon
  • Hungary Budapest
  • Latvia Riga
  • Russia (2) St. Petersburg, Smolensk
  • Estonia Tallinn
  • Third-party contribution / own budget
    (Austria, Switzerland, ...)
  • - staff - supplies/ equipments - facilities

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Study Centers Offers, Activities
  • Infrastructure
  • (rooms, personnel, technology, library)
  • Information point
  • Administration
  • Contact and communication
  • (meeting fellow students and faculty staff)
  • Counselling / Tutoring
  • Seminars / lectures (face-to-face)
  • Examinations (face-to-face, video)
  • Needs analysis
  • Collaboration with local and regional
    institutions and business

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Special example The Budapest Distance Study
Centre Fernstudienzentrum Budapest
  • Since winter semester 1991/92 complete range of
    study programmes of the FernUniversität
  • Hungarians enrolling for German-language
    programmes of study at Universität
  • - German university degrees
  • (undergraduate/graduate)
  • - academic further education programmes
  • growing number registered simultaneously at
    FernUniversität and at Hungarian university
  • (to improve language skills and subject related
    knowledge)
  • about 400 enroled students per semester

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Hungarian Students at German Universities (2002)
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Double-degree programmes (since 2002)
  • Economics students of the University of Pécs
    enrole at the FernUniversität to finally obtain
    degrees from both universities
  • - Additional studies (2 ys part-time)
  • - 75 students enroled some already finished
  • Same kind of cooperation with Széchenyi István
    University Györ (economics) and the Budapest
    Business School (economics computer science)

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The path to a Hungarian-German double-degree

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"Virtual Mobility" already in place at
FernUniversität in Hagen Summary
  • All 44.000 students are virtually mobile
  • - studying from home or workplace at
    FernUniversität based in Hagen -
  • - 6 of students living abroad
  • Study Centres abroad
  • Austria, Switzerland, Hungary, Russia, Baltic
    States information, support
  • services, classroom meetings, exams (written
    oral videoconference)
  • Double Degrees
  • Hungary, Russia, Baltic States, Czech
    Republic
  • "Bologna Process" Instruments
  • BA/MA structure, ECTS, Diploma Supplement
  • ERASMUS University Charter
  • European Network activities
  • EUNITE, EuroPACE, EADTU
  • Use of ICTs (Online courses, CSCL, CURE)
  • Open Access Studies
  • studying any course without pre-requisites

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Specific Example Real systems in virtual lab


PC as virtual lab
Real systems
Home or workplace of student
Real lab

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The Bologna Declaration -Joint declaration of
the European Ministers of Education 19 June 1999
  • Adoption of a system of easily readable and
    comparable degrees (Diploma Supplement)
  • Adoption of a system essentially based on two
    main cycles (Bachelor, Master)
  • Establishment of a system of credits (ECTS)
  • Promotion of mobility by overcoming obstacles to
    the effective exercise of free movement with
    particular attention to
  • - for students, access to study and
    training opportunities and to related services
  • - for teachers, researchers and
    administrative staff, recognition and
    valorisation of periods spent in a European
    context researching, teaching and training
  • Promotion of European co-operation in quality
    assurance
  • Promotion of the necessary European dimensions in
    higher education

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Forms of Mobility of Students
  • Physical Mobility (PM)
  • on-site physical travel stay in a country
    abroad
  • for limited period
  • takes substantial amount of time / creates
    additional cost
  • student experiences face-to-face activities and
    meetings, teaching and the everyday life of the
    country
  • social, cultural and educational enrichment
  • Virtual Mobility (VM)
  • from home, university or work place / no physical
    stay abroad
  • no restrictions in length of time spent studying
  • time and cost effective
  • limited face-to-face activities
  • access to courses and study schemes in foreign
    country communication with teachers and fellow
    students abroad via ICT
  • academic educational experience
  • (interaction intercultural competences)

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Mobility of Students
  • one scheme two different forms
  • gt Physical Mobility (PM)
  • gt Virtual Mobility (VM)
  • to be conceived as different but equal
    educational concepts
  • neither is inferior to the other
  • each has its own profile and legitimacy
  • complement / reinforce each other in various ways
  • Virtual Mobility is sometimes the easiest or only
    solution for international mobility

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Thank you for your attention
www.fernuni-hagen.de
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