1. SOCRATES-MINERVA Project – Meeting 1 Guy Mélard, ECARES et Institut de Statistique et de Recherche Opérationnelle, U.L.B (gmelard@ulb.ac.be)gmelard@ulb.ac.be Atika Cohen Département Sciences Information et Communication Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres, ULB (acohen@ulb.ac.be)acohen@ulb.ac.be Solvay Business School, ULB

2. Socrates ULB meeting 1 2 Contents  Some history  Guy Mélard  Links with other colleagues  What should be done?  … for example at ULB  Some problems  Université virtuelle at ULB

3. Socrates ULB meeting 1 3 Some history  November 2002: Project launch 4 Atika at Faculty of Applied Sciences 4 on project with basic courses/learning by projects/evaluation 4 now in Faculty of Letters, Dept. SIC  March 2003: project not transmitted by ULB  March 2005: project resubmitted by TUS, Guy proposed to be the contact person to avoid any difficulty

4. Socrates ULB meeting 1 4 Guy Mélard  teaching in Dept. Economics (2 nd year, informatics), Solvay Business School (postgraduate, quantitative techniques for management)  presently not involved in a similar project  but has developed a multimedia course for teaching forecasting techniques for National Bank of Belgium  also presently used in 3 of his courses at ULB, using Université virtuelle, under WebCT

5. Socrates ULB meeting 1 5 Links with other colleagues  mathematics in Dept Economics, 1st year: Marjorie Gassner (now head of Dept)  physics at SBS, 2 nd year: Philippe Emplit (now adjunct head, SBS)  chemistry at SBS, 1st year: Marie-Paule Delplancke Note: informally agreed but were not informed before this meeting, waiting for more details

6. Socrates ULB meeting 1 6 What should be done?  Implement the project as well as possible, not much  Quick check reveals too small resources: 4 40000 EUR for platform = 667 hours(*) 4 34000 EUR for 3 courses = 560 hours(*) (*) at staff category 2 rate in Bulgaria  Use an available – free – platform to be installed locally  Use as much as possible of existing contents  Adapt the course for local needs/languages

7. Socrates ULB meeting 1 7 For example at ULB (1/2) Given the profile of our students (Economics/Business School)  program in maths covers only part of the existing chapters of Université en Ligne  basic scientific background is probably lower  vocabulary and notations may differ Lack for resources: 400 students in each Dept 2 rooms of 25 seats for a faculty of 3500 students Last time to convince colleagues: June 2006

8. Socrates ULB meeting 1 8 … for example at ULB (2/2)  remediation sessions (« guidance »)  organised to try remedy the large percentage of failure (80%)  mainly used during the first months of the year (before eliminatory exams of January) Note: most of two who attend, do not need them; most of those who would need them, don’t show

9. Socrates ULB meeting 1 9 Problems (1/3)  Participation institutions 2 & 4 contact persons  Eligible costs  Decision for a platform/courses and risks  Expected output: what deliverables, when, by whom and in which languages? 4 not EN for courses? 4 EN for testing system? 4 EN for support system of advisors/coaches? 4 BG, FR, ES for scientific reports?

10. Socrates ULB meeting 1 10 Problems (2/3)  Hardware/software requirements 4 client: nothing? 4 server: u operating system? u data base management system? u language support (FR, BG, …), unicode? u development language: Java? XML? Flash? u course development standard: LMS? u course development tools? u LDAP?

11. Socrates ULB meeting 1 11 Problems (3/3)  Other small problems 4 ULB page 22 u organisation of the experiment u design of the assessment 4 4 persons 0,5 full time, not feasible 4 translation, what? (1 EUR/line) 4 conference fees: 500 EUR (=? travel of one conference orator) 4 web site, forum for the project (private or not?) 4 evaluator from the commission?

12. Socrates ULB meeting 1 12 Vous entrez ici le nom d'utilisateur et votre mot de passe Université Virtuelle de l'ULB http://uv.ulb.ac.be/ http://uv.ulb.ac.be/

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