What is Virtual Europe?
• Innovative and exciting new project set within a European Context • Web Based • Meeting deeper learning needs of students and tutors
Addressing Cohehre Goals
• Co-operation in educational innovation and research • Facilitating the elimination of barriers for international mobility of students and staff, through joint efforts to improve or develop the accessibility of curricula and courses
Meeting Cohehre Goals
• interprofessional in outlook • interdisciplinary in approach • intercultural in background • interactive in design • international in scope
Wessex Bay
• Development started in 2004 • In use within IHCS from September 2005 • Offers a variety of learning strategies – eg: enquiry based learning • Progress report on development of Wessex Bay informally presented to members of the Teaching & Learning Interest Group at the 2005 Cohehre Conference
How Does It Work?
• • • • • • Don Hughes – Wessex Bay, UK Jean Hughes – Gent, Belgium Ruud Hughes – Amsterdam, Holland Different Cultures Different Workplaces Different Methods
Short Term Aims
• Project Bid submitted in 2005 (agreement for project to commence – June 2006 - hopefully ) • Article submitted to Journal of Allied Health – March 2006 • Cases provided by Jean Bauwens – Erasmushogechool, Belgium and Niek Kruijer – Hogeschool van Amsterdam, Holland on prototype system – Mid June 2006 • Project team meet up to discuss roles, responsibilities and project milestones – Autumn 2006
Interested ?
• See Andy, Niek or Jean for more information.....