VM curriculum designing

There are different departments involved in VM process in different institutions; so it depends on each university, which department(s) or unit is (are) responsible for VM organization. This has to be described in University internal documents, in order each unit knows its responsibilities, when VM practices are started in the university. The first document to be agreed within the university departments if “the procedure for virtual mobility administration”. The main ideas to be presented in the document are:

• Virtual mobility concepts, participants, and departments involved
• The procedure for VM organization for outgoing students (teachers) describing application process and requirements, enrolment at host university and recognition of credits after exchange
• The procedure for incoming students (teachers) indicating their enrolment procedure at the university data bases, and internal structures, study process organization and credit transfer procedure for VM participant home university
• Responsibilities of departments involved

As most of the procedures in virtual exchange are related to physical exchange organization, virtual mobility is mostly associated with International relations officers. As students don’t usually travel (if virtual mobility is not combined with physical mobility) the department or unit responsible for  virtualization or technical support (especially virtual learning environment and video-conferences) also plays an important role and is involved in the process. However as virtual mobility process is new to some universities, teachers may perform more duties in order to facilitate and support the process.

The examples of VM procedures at some universities are:

• Procedure for Virtual Mobility at the University of Oviedo (developed during Ubicamp project)
• UNIOVI procedure (in Spanish, in UBICAMP project)
• VMU procedure (in Lithuanian)