2022-12-02 –, Stage 2, Einstein-Saal, BBAW
The European Digital UniverCity (EDUC) aims to create an integrated European University where learners, educators and researchers collaborate across institutional, cultural, disciplinary and geographical boundaries. Our strategy’s foundation is the Network-learning Communities of Practices which foster meaningful learning environments through peer sharing and self-determined learning activities based on a future-proof EDUCation vision.
The European Strategy for Universities set the framework for the evolution of European Higher Education. European Universities (transnational alliances) as EDUC, are the best way for the structural transition to a digital and greener internationalization of education.
EDUC aims to create an integrated European University where learners, educators, and researchers collaborate across institutional, cultural, disciplinary and geographical boundaries. One common goal is to integrate sustainable virtual mobility and exchange learning offers for all target groups.
To achieve our ambitious goals, collaborative inner- and cross-institutional learning, as well as developing processes that consider gaps and differences between local peculiarities of the partners involved, are essential. Therefore, our strategy’s foundation is the Network-learning Communities of Practices. We realized that both our alliance as a whole, and actors at individual partner universities, with their local needs and distinctive characteristics, can be considered “global” and “local” communities of practice respectively.
Our Network-learning Communities of Practices foster meaningful learning environments through peer sharing and self-determined learning activities. Those communities aim to reflect and discuss as well as develop common outcomes based on a future-proof EDUCation vision, where professional development of university teaching staff, support services and especially the exchange between all stakeholders in networks is a permanent routine.
We would like to share with the Moving Target Digitalisation 2022 audience our learning journey during a disruptive pilot phase in the middle of a pandemic, our collective vision for the rollout of EDUC (next 4 years) and how we are planning to adapt our Network-learning strategy based on our common learnings and taking advantage of the flexibility of the EDUCational ecosystem we are continuously improving within our Alliance.
Frederic Matthé is a staff member of the Dept. Teaching and Media at the Center for Quality Development in Teaching and Studies (ZfQ) at the University of Potsdam (UP). Since 2020 he has been working as coordinator for Collaborative Online International Learning/Virtual Exchange (COIL/VE). His previous areas of work were the coorganisation of the eTEACHiNG training programme at UP, the conception and implementation of workshops and trainings for the realisation of digitally supported teaching projects for university lecturers and the advising of lecturers. He studied educational sciences with a focus on adult education/further education and media pedagogy.
Giovanni Fonseca works as pedagogical engineer for the European Digital UniverCity (EDUC) alliance at the Centre for Quality Development in Teaching and Learning at the University of Potsdam. As part of his work, he advises and supports educators in the conception and implementation of innovative teaching-learning scenarios in the context of experimenting with various virtual mobility formats as part of the EDUC objectives.
His experience in education amounts to more than 20 years, contributing to a variety of projects, both in formal, non-formal and informal education; within various educational institutions, but also non-governmental organizations, as well as independently as an international consultant in education, sustainability, and digitalization.
Since 2011 is member of the international network ESD Expert Net, where he has coordinated together with his colleagues the Go! Global programme for international virtual school exchanges.
He has also developed an educational methodology called #OrganicLearning, which sets out some guidelines for future-proof education.