WP-SoE-1.1

PO-SoE-1.1.1 Analysis of Current Programmes — by Andreas Gehlert — last modified Nov 21, 2008 12:54

This report forms the deliverable PO-SoE 1.1.1, the analysis of current (educational) programmes and is part of SoE 1.1.1, the virtual campus, itself part of SoE 1 (Spread of Excellence) under the S-Cube project. The purpose of this report is to be used as a foundation for the design of the virtual campus. We have analysed courses currently available within each of the partner institutions within the context of e-learning. The analysis has revealed both commonalities and levels of diversity between partner institutions. Furthermore, we have examined old and new teaching paradigms, and proposed that, for the development of the S-Cube campus, S-Cube partners should examine the requirements of modern teaching for the development of effective e-learning courses. In doing this however, there is much to be learned from traditional teaching, and this should not be eliminated without prior discussion and thought. We reviewed educational literature, and have also examined e-learning courses being offered by two of the S-Cube partners. We have also proposed a set of key performance indicators which can be used to measure the effectiveness of the virtual campus.

CD-SoE-1.1.2 Organizational Structure for Virtual Campus — by Benedikt Liegener — last modified May 18, 2009 12:14

This deliverable provides a detailed description of the organizational structure of the Virtual Campus, together with its infrastructure, and list of researchers participating in it. The deliverable is structured as follows. Section 1 and Section 2 outline the goals of the Virtual Campus platform and its stakeholders. The following Section addresses the organisational structure (Section 3.1 describing the assembling of Public Campus, Section 3.2 describing the Knowledge Base and Section 3.3 discussing the issues of the Internal Campus). Section 4 discusses the implementation issues. Section 5 represents the proposed mechanism of material collection and updating. Finally a list of participation researchers is given in Section 6 followed by the Conclusions in Section 7.

CD-SoE-1.1.3 Initial Learning Programme and Module Collection — by Osama Sammodi — last modified May 17, 2010 16:12

This document reports on the initial set of learning material collected as part of S-Cube’s Spreading of Excellence (SoE) activities. WP-SoE 1.1 (“Virtual Campus”) aims among others to make widely available various lectures and training programmes on research and applications of software services, including a joint Masters and PhD programme. In this deliverable and as a step towards this goal, we collected learning material from S-Cube partners, undertook an initial classification of the items, and provided a description of the material currently available. We further provided a preliminary overview of joint curricula derived from the available material, and suggested gaps in the current collection that may be addressed by subsequent additions as part of upcoming S-Cube deliverables.