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| Short Description of VCSE e-Courses

|-VCSE-partner:

|OUNL

|-VCSE e-course:  

|European Virtual Seminar on Sustainable Development (EVS)

|-Challenge / Obstacle to be faced:

|In EVS, students with different national and disciplinary backgrounds work together on case studies. The ultimate challenge of the EVS is to create a dialogue on sustainable development issues in Europe among these geographically dispersed students in a learning community.  

|-Approach/ methodology / medium used:

|The educational format for the EVS supports collaborative learning and consists of geographically dispersed student teams, their tutors and subject matter experts, a learning content that consists of topical scientific or societal problems triggering collaboration between students, and a learning process that supports collaboration between students of different nationalities and from different cultural and disciplinary backgrounds. The learning technology is based on modern ICT and the Internet, and facilitates collaboration, communication and interaction between students. The organizational model for the EVS is a bottom-up network approach with distributed responsibilities, operating without formal, top-down institutional arrangements or external funding. The institutions participating in the EVS share their expertise and invest staff time and other resources, such as server space to host the electronic learning environment. The distribution of tasks and responsibilities over the partners is differentiated, as institutions can become partners in an EVS run at three different levels.