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The second Expert Forum on “Virtual Collaborative Learning Environment” of the VALEU-X project

September 27th, 2021

The second Expert Forum on “Virtual Collaborative Learning Environment” of the VALEU-X project

The second Expert Forum on “Virtual Collaborative Learning Environment” of the VALEU-X project

The second Expert Forum of the VALUE-X project was held, at the premises of the Aleksander Moisiu University in Durres during September 23-24, 2021. The Expert Forum was moderated by Prof. Dr. Eric Schoop from TU Dresden and was conceptualized as a best practice sharing and free room for discussion, which provided more advanced expertise about Virtual Collaborative Learning, digitalization, and virtual mobility for al l stakeholders. All participants were very committed to contribute with examples and other descriptions of experiences related to the project topics.

Epoka University was represented in the Expert Forum by several academic and administrative staff members. The group of students that attended the summer school organized by TU Dresden participated in the forum too.

The forum aimed at focusing the discussion around:

  • Designing and implementing an integrated Virtual Collaborative Learning environment
  • Designing didactical teaching and learning materials of selected pilot VCL courses
  • Organizing and facilitating local undergraduate pilot VCL course delivery
  • Availability and ability of experts in innovative teaching and learning practices to actively attend and contribute to the experts’ forum in the partner country.

The need to change our conception about nowadays students by highlighting the importance of teamwork through integrating participants form different partner organizations was stressed during the forum. This is further encouraged by the need to shift from ‘manufacturing’ workers to ‘knowledge’ workers. In addition, there is a need to shift from traditional vertical hierarchies to self-managing teams. Therefore, designing and implementing an integrated Virtual Collaborative Learning (VCL) environment is crucial for teamwork. VCL helps academicians to enhance flexibility in online teaching; focus on active learning processes; international teaching partnerships; formative assessment; access to data driven Social Learning Analytics etc.

The Expert Forum was organized in a hybrid mode, on-site for the students, academic and administrative staff travelling to Durres, and online for all participants from their home countries. The rationale was to maximize participation and allow everyone interested to join.

For more information about the VALEU-X Project please visit https://valeu-x.eu/

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