LIVIUS - Learning in Virtual Integrated University System

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Description

• European Center: it coordinates all the distance teaching activities  
• National Centers: they assure the coordination of the activities at national level and connecting to the European Center;
• Supplying Universities: they manage students’ enrolments and deliver academic titles acknowledge at European level;
• Production centers: they realize multimedia educational products to be delivered via satellite television and on the Internet;
• Technological Poles: they provide learning since they supply the students with all the required technologies (satellite television and Internet via satellite) and multimedia educational materials. The Technological Poles can be set up at the site of each partner, in traditional universities as well as in off-campus facilities or in the students’ homes.

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Objectives

• creating a new organizational model and a new educational and psycho-pedagogic model of European Virtual University born form a consortium of traditional universities, distance universities and technological companies of several European countries, structured as a network;  
• developing cooperation among partners in order to design shared educational paths and curricula allowing for the acknowledgement of titles at European level, based on the Sorbonne (25 May 1998) and Bologna (19 June 1999) Declarations;
• communicating knowledge by means of the new technologies;
• innovating teaching and learning methods and contributing to a fast Exchange of data and information;
• meeting the need for flexibility avoiding the student’s feeling of isolation, thus matching presence with distance and, therefore, maintaining a time for direct interaction among students, between students and teachers both in the face-to-face and in the distance mode;
• renewing the roles of the learner and of the teacher: the teacher will have to design learning scenarios, learn new languages, be able of teaching on television and on the Internet, using the new technologies;
• design a European curriculum in Computer and Telecommunication Engineering;
• producing 2 pilot modules of 20 hours of videolessons each in 4 languages (English, French, Spanish and Italian) in Computer Engineering and Telecommunications that will be delivered on via satellite television on NETTUNO satellite channels, RAI NETTUNO SAT1 and RAI NETTUNO SAT2 and on a learning platform on Internet via satellite, expressly realized for this purpose.

NETTUNO Role

• Design of the psycho-pedagogic model for the European Virtual University;
• Coordination and organization of the structure;
• Administrative and financial management of the network;
• Coordination and planning of the educational activities aimed at designing a European curriculum;
• Coordination, organization and realization of the production of a multilingual "Pilot Module" (40 hours on the whole for 2 modules lasting 20 hours each);
• Utilization of the pilot module on NETTUNO satellite channels, on the Internet and on the Internet via satellite.

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