44 students started in the course Social Work in Europe - Commonalities and Differences autumn 2009 and 86% (38 students) finished the course in the middle of December. The number of students applying for the course have decreased since we first started the course in 2005 (99 students), but the success rate has increased a lot. The statistic show that in
2005: 61% finished the course, 2006: 48,7% finished, 2007: 58% finished, 2008: 64% finished and now in 2009: 86% finished the course.
The main reason for the success rate is that most of the students during the last year had the course integrated in the BA programme and the ECTS credits where integrated in their ordinary programme.
This is a result of curriculum development among all the partners in the VIRCLASS Consortium.
In the beginning of October 2009 the Consortium leader Ingrid Wegman and the project coordinator Anne Karin Larsen, viisted UIT-Paris Bobigny and met the Dean and other colleagues from the social work department. The educational programme was presented and also the new SW-VirCamp project was presented. The University is interested in become a partner in VIRCLASS and since the application deadline for the VIRCLASS courses had passed, they were offered to participate with students in the Community Work module in SW-VirCamp. 6 students form IUT-Paris applied for this new module and we hope they will like to become an e-learning student.
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In 2009 - two of the partners in the SW-VirCamp project also signed the partnership agreement for the VIRCLASS Consortium. This is the University of Lusofona, Lisboa in Portugal and the KHKempen University of Applied Sciences, Geel, Belgium.
The VIRCLASS Consortium meeting in June 2010 will be hosted by Lusofona University.
A new Virtual Book with learning material about e-pedagogy for teachers in Higher Education has been released.
The Virtual Book is edited by Anne Karin Larsen and Grete Oline Hole at HiB, and consists of a Curriculum Plan for a 10 ECTS credit course, tasks, weekly programmes, and screen lectures by lecturers from HiB and Bergen University. The Media Centre at HiB has contributed to the learning material and layout. The VIRTUAL BOOK is a creativecommons and we hope that the material will inspire teachers to become e-teachers as well.
Address to the VIRTUAL BOOK E-PEDAGOGY FOR TEACHERS IN HIGHER EDUCATION: www.virclass.net/eped
