Learning in a Virtual Integrated University

The project’s general objective is the creation of a new organizational model and a new psycho-pedagogical and didactic model of European Virtual University that originates from a consortium of traditional universities, distance universities and telecommunications companies of many European countries structured as a network.

The project will focus on the sharing of know-how and technological and didactic competencies of the involved partners, according to a perspective of consolidation of a self-sustainable virtual network.
The project has the following four general objectives:

1. Propose an organizational solution for traditional universities and for the distance ones, combining innovative educational metholodogies, technologies and contents;

2. Develop a special cooperation among the partners in order to design didactic paths and common academic curricula that allow the acknowledgement of titles at a European level, according to the Sorbonne and Bologna declarations;

3. Test new forms of learning services and a new psycho-pedagogical model that allows the integration of didactic opportunities given by different media into the same open and flexible environment, characterised by distance didactics both of the synchronic and diachronic type.

4. produce a pilot module of 40 houres of videolessons in four different languages (English, French, Spanish and Italian) of Computer Science and experiment the its delivery by different means (TV sat and Internet, Didactic Platform on the Internet by sat and videostreeming by video-server).