Welcome to the Being Mobile website. This website promotes the concept of Virtual Mobility in Higher Education and aims to raise awareness about how European cooperation in education can be heightened through Virtual Mobility activities.
Virtual Mobility
According to the e-learningeuropa portal, Virtual Mobility means: “The use of information and communication technologies (ICT) to obtain the same benefits as one would have with physical mobility but without the need to travel”.
Indeed, through the use of ICT, students and teachers can experience international exchanges of expertise while staying at home. As mobility and internationalisation are becoming increasingly important in today’s society, this is a significant evolution for those not able to enjoy any physical exchange.
Click on the heading in the left-hand toolbar to find out more about virtual mobility.
Being Mobile
Being Mobile is a year long European Project promoting the concept of Virtual Mobility amongst universities. For more information about the project, click here.
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During the Virtual Mobility Forum in Berlin last week, a new entry entitled "Virtual Mobility" has been added to Wikipedia. The first outcomes of the forum as well as some general information about Virtual Mobility can be found on this page.
Visit this page on Wikipedia and feel free to contribute.
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Professor Ray Land of the university of Strathclyde will be one of the key note speakers at the Virtual Mobility Forum. He will be speaking about "The Next Generation of e-Learning: Time, Mobility and Identity"
"The new Web 2.0 applications, such as wikis, blogs, social software and mobile technologies, provide exciting new authoring, networking and community-building capabilities, but the pedagogical and social implications of these are still largely unexplored. They present the higher education community, and their organisations, with far-reaching challenges relating to the digital literacies, pedagogies and assessment practices we might need to adopt in these new spaces. Issues relating to how students might cope with issues of speed, multiple temporality and virtual social mobility will be addressed." (Prof. Ray Land)
Read more presentations and abstracts from the Virtual Mobility Forum
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 The Best Practice Manual "European Cooperation in Education through Virtual Mobility" that was produced in the framework of the Being Mobile project, is now available.
This final publication is a handbook on the subject of Virtual Mobility. It includes short summaries of innovative and model projects or initiatives with a specific focus on replicable outcomes.
Download the handbook
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