VCSE Guidebook/How to promote the VCSE-model/On-site workshops: Difference between revisions

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On-site workshops in the context of the VCSE dissemination strategy are face-to-face meetings at location. The location being a European university (faculty, department, centre) not yet involved in the VCSE or similar virtual campus initiatives. The on-site workshops were proposed in the VCSE project description as an innovative and potentially highly effective means to disseminate the VCSE-model. The underlying idea was to involve local staff with (positive) experience in international e-learning, invite not only educational staff but also relevant senior-level decision makers (e.g. dean, vice-rector, head of department, director), and to create opportunities for hands-on ‘test-it-yourself’ experience. Furthermore, persons that became interested during the workshop were to be offered a ‘free trial period’ of access to the virtual campus and its e-learning courses as an observer. Establishing contacts and organizing the on-site workshops was the responsibility of the individual VCSE-partners. The leader of the relevant VCSE work package (OUNL) developed a PowerPoint presentation of the VCSE-project specifically for use in on-site workshops, with a focus on the educational, organisational and technological aspects of the virtual campus and the advantages of this type of virtual mobility (''‘Virtual Mobility': The VCSE Approach’'', made available - including accompanying text - to all VCSE-partners in the VCSE E-Library). Given the ambition to create a hands-on experience in the on-site workshops, a ‘live visit’ to the on-going courses at the virtual campus was foreseen as an important component of a workshop. However, the first experiences with on-site workshops showed that due to the dispersed activity pattern in the courses, ‘live visits’ were neither very exciting nor informative. As an alternative, ‘virtual tours’ of the current VCSE e-learning courses were developed by each partner for use at on-site presentations. Other materials for use at on-site workshops are presentation hand-outs and the VCSE-project flyer.