This document discusses virtual collaborative learning (VCL), which involves online collaboration in groups to gain new knowledge. It provides background on VCL, including its role in supporting internationalization and mobility in European higher education. VCL frameworks aim to foster virtual exchange and mobility through international collaborative learning projects between universities. The document outlines the key components of VCL, including situational learning cases, online collaboration platforms, learning analytics, and pedagogical support from e-tutors. It presents VCL as a way to help achieve the goals of the Bologna Process in building a European knowledge society and area of lifelong learning.

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Prof. Dr. rer. pol. habil. Eric Schoop
What is Virtual Collaborative Learning?
Short Information about Background, Framework and Role in European Higher
Education
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Prof. Dr. rer. pol. habil. Eric Schoop
• Research & Teaching on Digitalisation and
its impact on
• Learning & Teaching in
• Higher Education
(Internationalisation)
• Continuing Vocational Training
• Knowledge Work in Organisations
• E-Learning Representative of the
Faculty of Business and Economics
• Member of numerous Accreditation and
Evaluation comittees

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Research & Project Focus

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Expansion of the
European Union
in 2004
Dresden, Germany
European Higher Education Area
European Union
as of 2003
Albania

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Technische Universität Dresden
University of Excellence

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VALEU-X Project Partners

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Virtual Mobility: Bologna Roadmap &
the European Knowlege Society
Goal of the European
Higher Education
Roadmap
“... to establish a more complete
and far-reaching Europe,
in particular building upon and
strengthening it‘s intellectual,
cultural, social and scientific
and technological dimensions.“
(Bologna Declaration 1999)
1. Academic grades easy to read & to compare
2. Bachelor & Master programs
3. Accumulation & transfer of credits (ECTS)
4. Mobility of students, teachers & researchers
5. Quality assurance / accreditation
6. European dimension of Higher Education
10 year mission for the EU to become “the most
competitive and dynamic knowledge-based
economy in the world“ (Lisbon Council 2000)
Making a European Area of
Lifelong Learning a Reality
(EU Commission 2001)
eLearning Action Plan
(EU Commission 2001)
How do we
have to adapt
learning &
teaching
processes?

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Virtual Mobility: Bologna Objectives
The European education and training system has to encourage the
personal growth of European citizens in three aspects:
1. Skills – currently needed technical, social and personal competencies, giving an
individual a secure foundation for life and enabling him to work together in groups
with specialists from other disciplines, intelligently using existing Information and
Communication Technologies (ICT),
2. Adaptability – the ability to learn about and adjust to new situations, while staying
independent and respecting others, and
3. Mobility – the skills required in today’s international and multicultural society,
especially the ability to work and communicate with others across national
boundaries and by this to adapt to the challenges of a global economy.
Source: European Council (2001): The concrete future objectives of education and training systems. 14.
February 2001, Brussels, Belgium
http://register.consilium.europa.eu/pdf/en/01/st05/05980en1.pdf

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Need to shift our conception about
today’s students
The shift from manufacturing work to ‘knowledge work’
The distribution of work over large geographical distances
The increasing importance of working from home
The shift from traditional vertical hierarchies to
self-managing teams
The rise of the nomadic worker which weakens the relationship
between employers and employees
“Universities: think about what jobs your students can get if they follow
your courses.“ (Coyne, 2008)
(Perez-Sabater, Montero-Fleta, MacDonald, & Garcia-
Carbonell, 2015)

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From e-Learning to the digitalisation of
Higher Education: Experience of WIIM
à 1993 1994-96 ... 2001-04
Indicators &
Dashboards
2014-18
2016-20
E-Tutors/
Community
Manager
LearningAnalytics
2005-13 2013-16
VCL Internationalisation of Higher Education
Learning ProcessesLearning Content

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Real Virtual
Physical Dimension
Individual
Group
Personal
Dimension
Asynchronous
Synchronous
1
2
Readings
Business Game
5
6
Individual
self organised
Learning (WBT,
eLecture)
3
4
Lectures
Group exercises
8
7
Webinar,
E-Mail
Feedback
VCL Projects
(Learning Communities)
Analog & digital learning & teaching

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Didactical Framework: Bloom‘s Taxonomy
Source and details see: https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/blooms-taxonomy/

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• Virtual = online, using new
communication channels
• Collaborative = in groups, benefitting from the
experience of others
• Learning = gaining new knowledge
and experience
Virtual Collaborative Learning

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Virtual Collaborative Learning:
A framework for virtual mobility
#28 VCL 2009:
• Dresden GER
• Riga LV
• Kaunas LT

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VCL Project
Process View in Details
Project Overview
• Collaboration in the Virtual Classroom 2019

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VCL – a complex learning arrangement
Concrete realisation
• Four main design dimensions as “pivotal instruments”
to ensure quality in our VCL settings
Situative Learning
MS Teams – Collaboration
Platform
Dashboard &
Gamification
Personalized feedback &
assessment

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Situative Learning
Knowledge in higher education. Adapted from (Dubs, 1995)
Concrete realisation
• Realistic cases, working tasks and roles

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Collaboration Platform
Microsoft Teams
Collaboration
platform and social
network
Group blog & forum
& ★ Ratings
File exchange
FriendshipPersonal profile
Chat
Wiki
LearningAnalytics
Analysisofuseractivitiesandinteractions
E-Tutors
Moderation
Feedback
Individual support
Participants

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Social Learning Analytics

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Pedagogical Support Concepts
Technical Support
• Support in dealing with collaboration tools
(functionality, selection, technical problems)
Organizational Support
• Supervision of the timely processing of the
task
Evaluation
• Support of the evaluation while using an
evaluation instrument
Specialized Support
• Clarification of content issues
• Assistance with comprehension problems,
ambiguities, misunderstandings
• References to literature and tips for working
techniques and methods
• Guidance for learning tasks, hints for
processing learning tasks
• Feedback on learning tasks and on the
method)
Personal and Group-Related Support
• (Support in the) organization of learning
activities
• Feedback on the learning behavior of the
individual/group
• Support in conflicts
• Support in case of learning problems of the
individual/group
Concrete realisation
• Pedagogical support by qualified e-tutors (Jödicke, 2014)

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Motivation for Student & E-Tutor
Participation (besides ECTS & grades)

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For more details on VCL see ...
2019-12-11
Schoop, E., Clauss, A., Safavi, A. A. (2020).
A Framework to boost Virtual Exchange
through International Virtual Collaborative
Learning: The German-Iranian Example.
DAAD Conference Proceedings, (in print).
Presentation article on the web:​
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tinyurl.com/Virtual-exchange​
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Presentation Video on the web:​
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tinyurl.com/DAAD-VX-Video​
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VALEU-X is more than just a capacity building activity for us at TU Dresden
We invite all project stakeholders to join our VCL activities to foster virtual mobility –
preparing and/or substituting virtual exchange
§ Lecturers
§ Students
§ Universities‘ staff members
§ Political & social decision makers
Thank you for your audience
D-01062 Dresden
Tel: +49 (351) 463-32845
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Prof. Dr. rer. pol. habil. Eric Schoop
Technische Universität Dresden
Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Professur für Wirtschaftsinformatik,
insbesondere Informationsmanagement
Faculty of Business and Economics
Chair of Wirtschaftsinformatik – Information Management

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