SURVEY ACTIVITIES OF THE EUROPEAN eCOMPETENCE INITIATIVE

Prior to the Vienna Conference on 28 - 29 September, we distributed our first questionnaire on effective eCompetence practices to all project partners. This is the first of a number of successive survey activities that we will conduct during the project. The questionnaire focuses on discovering 'effective practices' or solutions that are known to our partners, or which are part of the eCompetence activities of our partner institutions.

The following diagram, produced following the Vienna meeting, summarises the key stages in the survey activity process and its long term goals: Summary of survey activities key stages

SURVEY ANALYSIS TOOLS

At the Vienna symposium in September 04, in-depth discussions were held on how responses to the initial 'effective practices' questionnaire could best be analysed, with a view to determining what additional information was needed for each one to give a fuller description and identify possible 'transferable models', and to selecting a subset of submissions to develop as case studies. The outcomes of this discussion were the following two taylor-made analysis tools:

Matrix of eCompetence levels and parameters
5-step 'eCompetence Analysis' model for case studies

For more information on the Vienna symposium, see First Project Symposium in Vienna

CONTACT INFO

If you are interested in finding out more about these survey activities, such as information on the aims and results of this first questionnaire so far, please contact the workgroup coordinators below. Any comments and suggestions are welcome.

Helle Baekkelund, MA
Aalborg University
Tel: +45 9635 9969
eMail: helleb@learning.aau.dk

Thomas Pfeffer
IFF vienna - Department for Higher Education Research
Tel: +43 1 522 4000 125
eMail: thomas.pfeffer@uni-klu.ac.at

WHICH 'EFFECTIVE PRACTICES'?

The "effective practices" collected in this survey could be anything that partners feel addresses the area of e-Competence, as described in these pages, or in the formal project documents. A 'practice' or solution, as we see it, is a pattern of activities which have actually been put into effect, rather than just a theoretical model, policy statement, or plan. Our main idea was to get a first impression of experiences and concepts in the field of eCompetence.

Supported by the
European Commission