The general aim of the NetCU project is to develop models, guidelines and strategies for transnational networked curricula that supply a broader range of content and learning activities, that deliver state-of-the-art knowledge in the best quality supported by innovative ICT in an international setting - curricula that are meeting the diverse needs of today’s student population and lifelong learners and that are symbolizing a European identity of higher education and lifelong learning in the 21. century.
This will be done via a set of operational objectives:
As a first step a comprehensive mapping, description and analysis of the currently existing networked curricula (case studies and literature) will be made. A set of key areas will be analyzed, e.g. the educational model, the ways of sharing of content, the role of mobility, issues of assessment, recognition and quality assurance, language provision, the role and usage of ICT in the curriculum, its management and business model. Which advantages has the curriculum for the partners and which obstacles were/are faced? How do the students embrace it? How are the national, legal and institutional frameworks defined. Information on these and further questions will deliver comprehensive data for deriving systematic models of networked curricula in ODE and blended learning. With these models specific cases will be transferred into common features of networked curricula in ODE and blended learning and translated into viable guidelines for developing and implementing transnational networked curricula. To strengthen the important technological dimension of networked curricula in ODE and blended learning innovative ICT solutions will be shared, analysed and plugged into one of the case studies for testing and enhancing.
The project results will stimulate and facilitate the set-up of new networked curricula and improve existing ones and thus trigger the positive effects as described in the previous part of this document.