EC suggests that “Virtual mobility for study offers students, as part of their curriculum, access to courses and study schemes from another HEI in a foreign country in order to learn, communicate and participate in collaborative work in an international environment with teachers and fellow students abroad via the new information technologies. VM can be combined with physical mobility period of an appropriate duration”.
There is no doubt about the benefits that virtual mobility brings to Higher Education Institutions:
- Virtual mobility enables European wide exchanges for all those not able to benefit from existing physical international exchange programs, due to social, economic, organizational or other reasons and can therefore offer the advantages and benefits of real mobility to a wider community.
- Schedule flexibility is another advantage that virtual mobility offers to their users.
- Through e-learning environments, working with a greater number of teachers and students creates a possibility for a more personalized learning with a higher training variety.
- Direct access to resources and information accessibility is guaranteed while working in international groups
- Communication and joint, collaborative participation lets to improve foreign language and to get acquainted with different collaboration tools. So teachers and students benefit linguistically, culturally and educationally from the experience of other European countries and of their (academic) fields of study.
In Ubicamp, a physical exchange model is adapted and used for virtual exchange, when a subject is delivered online for the students of host university and virtually incoming students, connecting to the host university e-learning platforms and improving intercultural communication while working in international groups.
So we invite you to visit different universities virtually:) Join us and enjoy!
More information about what is virtual mobility can be found here and here.
Ostatnia modyfikacja: piątek, 16 maja 2014, 09:03