I N F O R MAT I O N B R O C H U R E

LEARNING MADE SIMPLE!DIGITAL CAMPUS FOR CONTINUOUS EDUCATION

S U M M A R Y O F B E N E F I T S T H E D I G I T A L C A M P U S F O R C O N T I N U O U S E D U C A T I O N

WORKPLACE ORIENTED CONTINUOUS EDUCATION

FLEXIBILIT Y MOTIVATION

MORE INTENSE CUSTOMER AND STUDENT SUPPORT

MEDIAL PREPARATIONOF CONTENT

IMPROVEMENT OF IAGNOSTIC OPTIONS

PROMOTION OF PERSONAL SKILLS

ACTUALIT Y NATIONWIDE OFFERS

STUDY GROUPSPARTICIPATION EVENWITH HANDICAPS

NO DIGITAL SEPARATION OF THE SOCIET Y

ADJUSTMENT TO A CHANGED COMMUNICATIONAL BEHAVIOUR

SUPPORT OF THE BOLOGNA PROCESS

The Digital Campus for Continuous

Education is a central infrastructure for

technical supported teaching and

learning scenarios, which is reliable,

cross institutional, compliant with

data protection and legally secured.

Additionally it offers opportunities

for a common use as well as an

exchange of digital contents between

institutions. It is operated by vimotion

GmbH and promoted by the state of

Baden-Württemberg within the

„Alliance for Lifelong Learning“.

INDIVIDUALIZATION OF EDUCATIONAL PROCESSES

HANDLING OF HIGH COMPLEXIT Y

OFFERS INNICHE TOPICS

IMPROVEMENT OF INTEGRATION

Technically supported teaching and learning scenarios enable

to individualize educational processes:

Educational content can be specifically

adjusted to the need, the requirement and

the individual learning conditions of the

student.

to handle high complexity: Today many

problems and questions have reached a

complexity which requires an interdiscip-

linary approach. Nevertheless continuous

education still needs to be affordable.

to offer education in niche topics: Regio-

nally limited markets with less demand

change into supraregional markets and

therefore appropriate offers can be imple-

mented economically wisely.

to offer an workplace oriented conti-

nuous education: Continuous education

in the form of classroom teaching has

many beneficial impacts like rewarding

effects, the strenghthening of social inter-

actions and even inspirational recuperative

effects. But often they are very expensive

and ineffective, because they can‘t ensure

that educational content is available

when it is needed: while problem solving,

directly at work or at the time when the

problem occurs.

more flexibility in selecting learning

facilities and study times.

an increasing motivation through

constant feedback options and knowledge

monitoring.

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actuality, because it becomes much easier

to update rapidly changing educational

content, for example in the field of infor-

mation technology.

to collect and merge the professional

skills of students more easily in their indivi-

dual expertise portfolios.

to offer a nationwide continuous edu-

cation of high quality.

to improve diagnostic possibilities:

Deficiencies which have to be improved

can be recognized more easily, so it is

possible to offer matching educational

content.

to improve the participation in social and

cultural life even with handicaps.

to build more homogenous learn groups

during attendance phases by preparing

learning modules. Attendance phases can

be limited to the contents and methods,

in which their advantages and potentials

are shown to the fullest.

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a more intensive support of the customers

and students by providing synchronous

and asynchronous communication and

feedback tools.

an easier implementation of the Bologna

Strategy: After the Bachelors‘ degree

students often enter into work life. Using

technically supported learning scenarios a

Masters‘ degree can significantly easier be

completed parallel to work life.

the improvement of integration measu-

res: After career breaks employees have

better possibilities to return adequately

skilled into work life, because the necessary

qualification offers and the required needs

can be optimally matched.

the medial preparation of educational

content and therefore an improvement

of the outcomes of continuous education

through media diversity, especially by

audio and video sequences, simulation,

animation,interactive elements and step

by step tutorials.

to prevent the digital separation of the

society: Because of their small size many

institutions are unable to handle the

technical and organisational challenges as

well as the regulations of data protection.

So the digital separation of society is

intensified by a digital separation of the

education and training landscape.

to consider that people changed

their communicational behaviour in

continuous education.

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1. High synergy effects

The joint use of technical infrastructure

makes it possible to use hard- and software

to an expense, which would be unrealistic

for a single institution.

Systems of a very high quality and

scalability can be used.

A very high availability is guaranteed (

at least 98 % in annual average – actual

availability in 2014: 99,991 %).

Operating system Debian, applications are

separated in the V-server, SELinux (security

enhanced linux) is used as a safety system.

Automated hardware and process

service monitoring guarantees that errors

are immediately recognized (automated

monitoring by over 1000 sensors).

A very high level of data security is

ensured by sophisticated data security

systems (backups), also in case of

unauthorized access attempts.

Data traffic as well as the actual data carri-

er (hard drives) is always encrypted.

The guidelines of the Federal Office for

Data Security (see https://www.bsi.bund.de/

DE/emen/Cyber-Sicherheit/ISi-Reihe/ISi-

Reihe_node.html) are strictly implemented.

Interfaces between the system and the

administration programs can be used jointly.

Significantly lower license prices become

possible, for example for virtual rooms like

Vitero.

Continuous “up to dateness” by ongoing

updates (ILIAS version 5.1 in responsive web

design since April 2016).

The joint usage of learning modules and

therefore high access numbers enables

to achieve more attractive prices for

professional content,

to develop customized license models,

which allow the modularisation of

content,

There are many good reasons to use the Digital Campus of Continuous Education.

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to jointly use the necessary interfaces

between learning modules,

to facilitate the content sharing and the

cooperation with other institutions.

2. The Digital Campus of Continuous Education provides plugins.

The range of functions within the Campus

of Continuous Education is significantly

extended by jointly used plugins, for

example Vitero (virtual conference room),

Etherpad (synchronous development of

documents, version controlled),

UserCreateEventHook (highly simplified

administration by automated skin and

rights assignment).

3. Individual advantage for institutions

A high level of security through a sophisti-

cated rights and role management

A clear distinction of categories with their

own local user administration

Global role administration

Multi-client capability

Individually configurable license manager

Single Sign-on (Shibboleth-Server)

All objects within ILIAS as well as all

content objects can be used as single ob-

jects (ILIAS is object based).

By referring courses classes can be used

beyond categories (essential for the coope-

ration of educational institutions)

Individual activation of personal data and

therefore increased self-determination for

the customer (can be listed as a convincing

argument in advertisement)

Edition adjustment to the terminal device

Support of SCORM 2014

Availability of the SCORM 2014

offline-player under Mozilla Firefox,

Individual appearance for every single

institution.

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4. Contractual security

Legally certified documents are made

available to the institutions, also documents

which lie in their own sphere of responsibi-

lity like data processing agreements, user

conditions for end users, administrators and

lecturers.

5. Development and technical support from the region

A team of developers located in Germany

facilitates the cooperation.

6. Awards

Finalist at the European eLearning

Award 2009

Price winner at the eLearning Award 2013

in the category „Social Media“

Price winner at the eLearning Award 2015

in the category „Virtual Classroom“

Nomination for the German eLearning

Award „Innovation and upcoming talents“

(d-elina) in the category „School“ in 2015

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Digital Campus for Continuous Education

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Internet

management net

REVERSE PROX Y

WEBSERVER-NET

DB-NET

Webserver Web V-Server n-te

DNS1DNS2 ILIAS Etherpad Openfire

OpenMeetings Selenium Mail vimotion

Logs abt

DB Server Template Selenium

Round Cube Trac

Test systems Webserver Config

Webserver Template Reserve Proxy Config

Reserve Proxy Config Monitoring

DB-Logs WebserverLogs

Reverse ProxyLogs

BackupLogs

DB VM DB2 VM

DB 1

DB NET

authentification service

Server VMap

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VPN

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Admin VLANDeveloper VLAN

SERVICE (S)V-Server

SERVICE (S)V-Server

Encrypted data systemEncrypted data system Encrypted data system

hard disk driverBuffer Cache Buffer Cache

DRBD

TCP/IP TCP/IP

NIC driver NIC driver

DRBD

hard disk driver hard disk driver

RAID hard disk driver

RAID hard disk driver RAID hard disk driver

vimhost01cHardwareHardware 16 cores64 GB memoryOS DebianSELinux

HardwareHardware 64 cores1 TB memoryOS DebianSELinux

vimhost01a vimhost01b

NIC - SERVICE (S)V-Server

The technical side of the Digital Campus

of Continuous Education forms a highly

failsafe server landscape, with a securi-

ty and availability which barely can be

made financially possible by single offers.

Every functionality is being implemen-

ted by an own, for this purpose designed

virtual server, which is separately main-

tained.

The modular design reduces the comple-

xity of the individual functional unit and

increases the maintainability of the sys-

tem in the long term. The various possibi-

lities result by interaction of these units.

All technical units are at least redundant

designed. If one component fails, its

redundant counterpart will automatically

fill in.

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Backup system

E d i t o r & O p e r a t o r D i g i t a l C a m p u s o f C o n t i n u o u s E d u c a t i o n

C o n t a c t f o r m e m b e r s „ A l l i a n c e f o r L i f e l o n g L e a r n i n g “

I m a g e r i g h t s

S p o n s o r e d b y

vimotion GmbH

Friedhofstrasse 26

71566 Althütte

Phone 07183 42898-0

www.vi-motion.de

info@vi-motion.de

Roland Bauer

Phone 0711 279-2689

roland.bauer@km.kv.bwl.de

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