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WP4. Analyses of mega providers of e-learning
Read the book of cases studies Megaproviders of e-learning in Europe European Mega Providers of Online Education: Interview Transcripts and Case Study ArticlesBelgium,
Estonia,
France,
Germany, Hungary,
Italy,
Netherlands, Norway, Portugal,
Spain, UK. BelgiumAt the University of Liège, the Institute for Training and Research in Higher Education is in charge of the university's Virtual Campus. Read the Virtual Campus of the University of Liège case study article. The Le campus Virtuel de l'Université de Liège case study article is also available in French. EstoniaUniversity of Tartu is a national university in Estonia. Read the full UT interview transcript and the UT case study article in pdf-format. FranceEDHEC Business School Lille-Nice (École De Hautes Études Commerciales du Nord). Read the full EDHEC interview transcript and the EDHEC case study article in pdf-format. The full EDHEC interview transcript is also available in French. CrossKnowledge is an international company founded in France. It provides remote development of managerial skills using new technologies. Read the full CrossKnowledge interview transcript and the CrossKnowledge case study article in pdf-format. GermanyBavarian Virtual University (Virtuelle Hochschule Bayern) is an institute set up by all nine state universities and all 17 state universities of applied sciences in Bavaria. Read the full BVU interview transcript and the BVU case study article in pdf-format. Oncampus is the e-learning department of Lübeck University of Applied Sciences (LUAS). Read the full Oncampus interview transcript and the Oncampus case study article in pdf-format. HungaryThe Dennis Gabor College is a private school founded in 1992 and one of the oldest institutions in the field of distance education in Hungary. Read the full Dennis Gabor College interview transcript and the Dennis Gabor College case study article in pdf-format. Hungarian Telecom started experimenting with e-learning in 1996 through a rented WebCT system. By 2005 the Hungarian Telecom had above 8000 enrolments for about 150 courses. Presently, the time-wise distribution of online and face-to-face courses taken by the company's learners is about 50-50%. Read the full Hungarian Telecom interview transcript and the Hungarian Telecom case study article in pdf-format. ItalyScuola IaD is a distance education academic institution operating within the in-presence educational environment of the University of Rome Tor Vergata. Read the full Scuola IaD interview transcript and the Scuola IaD case study article in pdf-format. The NetherlandsOpen Universiteit Nederland, founded in 1984, is the youngest university in the Netherlands. It is an independent government funded institution for distance learning at university level. Read the full OUNL interview transcript and the OUNL case study article in pdf-format. NorwayNKI Distance Education (NKI Fjernundervisning) provides courses and study programmes at higher education level, upper secondary level and within the vocational training field. In 2005, 470 courses were offered and the number of course enrolments was 12 217. Read full the NKI interview transcript and NKI case study article in pdf-format. Norwegian School of Management (BI) is a non-profit private institution offering courses at higher education (tertiary) level and within vocational training. BI Norwegian School of Management, Distance Education Centre (BI DE) is, as the name implies, a part of this institution. Norwegian School of Management has about 340 academic staff members. A considerable number of these teach at BI DE. BI DE has about 8500 course enrolments per year. Read the full BI interview transcript and BI case study article in pdf-format. NKS is a provider of distance education that started as a correspondence school in 1914. Read the full NKS interview transcript and NKS case study article in pdf-format. Sør-Trøndelag University College (HiST) is a dual mode publicly financed higher education institution with several departments. Large scale e-learning has mainly been done in one of these departments, Department of Informatics and e-Learning (AITeL). Read the full HiST interview transcript and HiST case study article in pdf-format. PortugalUniversidade Aberta was founded in 1988 and started its activities in the year 1989/1990 as a distance education university using traditional technology like video, audio and print material. The increasing number of students led to the first virtualization of the course offer in 2001. In 2006 Universidade Aberta provided more than 60 fully virtual courses to a total number of about 1400 students. Read the full Universidade Aberta interview transcript and the Universidade Aberta case study article in pdf-format. SpainThe Catalan government created Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) as an open virtual university in 1995. Read the full UOC interview transcript and the UOC case study article in pdf-format. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) is a public university. The interview focuses on GATE (Gabinete de Tele-Educación), a department attached to the Vice Presidency of New Technologies and Web Based Services. Read the full UPM interview transcript and UPM case study article in pdf-format. Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC) is one of Spain's 48 public universities. Read the full ULPGC interview transcript and ULPGC case study article in pdf-format. ÉLOGOS is a private company that offers training and e-learning consultancy, training outsourcing and the development of e-learning courses, technical knowhow and solutions, a virtual learning platform (educalogos), instructional design services and a considerable variety of online courses. Read the full ÉLOGOS interview transcript and ÉLOGOS case study article in pdf-format. The UNED is currently Spain's largest university with almost 180.000 students. Starting its activity in the early seventies in the field of traditional distance education, the UNED has experienced a spectacular growth in geographical presence and student numbers. The figures led to an increasing use of ICT and consequently to the installation of a virtual campus in the year 2000. Read the full UNED interview transcript and the UNED case study article in pdf-format. UKThe OUUK was established in 1969 to deliver high quality distance education to students and developed its supported open learning model (involving local tutors, feedback on assignments, centrally produced course materials). The OU is the UK's largest University, teaching 35% of all part-time undergraduate students in the UK each year. Nearly 21,000 OU students study outside the UK. Read the full OUUK interview transcript and OUUK case study article in pdf-format. Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) is a major university in the city of Manchester in the North West of England. Today the university has over 30000 students and over 4000 staff. Its leadership in e-learning is supported by its Learning and Teaching Unit. Competence in e-learning has grown organically and over a long period since the first initiatives taken in 1995.MMU today has 1000 online courses and 15000 e-learning students. Read the full MMU interview transcript and the MMU case study article in pdf-format. Staffordshire University has a long history of providing vocational courses to its local communities as well as to regional, national and international students. Read the full Staffordshire interview transcript and the Staffordshire case study article in pdf-format. learndirect is the brand name of the University for Industry (UfI) in the United Kingdom The Ufi was sent up by the United Kingdom government in 1998. Read the full learndirect interview transcript and the learndirect case study article in pdf-format. The University of Leicester is one of the older universities in the United Kingdom. Read the full University of Leicester interview transcript and the Leicester case study article in pdf-format. Read the full University of Ulster interview transcript and the Ulster case study article in pdf-format. Type of result: Analyses of data collected from 20-30 institutions. A report will be written for each institution according to a common outline/template. All institutions are invited to write a case study of their own institution hopfully to be published in an online journal. Regional responsibilitiesNKI: Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands |
