Open Webinar: “Virtual Mobility and Internationalisation of Higher Education”

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Open Webinar: “Virtual Mobility and Internationalisation of Higher Education”
Monday, May 29, 2017, 09:00-10:00
Online-Room: https://zoom.us/j/651295114

Expert: Alastair Creelman, E-learning specialist at Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden
Moderation: David Röthler, WerdeDigital.at

mobiilty

Mobility of students and internationalisation is an issue Universities have been supporting for a long time. Especially the Erasmus Programme of the European Union had a significant impact on student mobility. With the rise of eLearning and especially MOOCs the term mobility changes its notion: virtual mobility allows co-operation between several universities by sharing courses, virtual seminar series, virtual placement as well as virtual support activities for physical mobility. Virtual mobility involves as well focus on intercultural exchange.

Alastair will present and discuss the challenges and experience so far concerning virtual mobility in higher education. He is involved in the following projects:

This open webinar is part of a course at Salzburg University about communication in MOOCs. Students participate at international MOOCs and reflect communication and learning processes.

Everybody interested is welcome to join the live online session!
https://www.facebook.com/events/432740953747386/

Recording of the session:

Update June 27, 2017

Until today about 160 people have watched (at least partly) the recording of the live stream on Facebook. The recording on Youtube has been visited around 30 times. More than 25 participants took part actively at the live session.

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