lefis general assembly meeting, wroclaw, september 17-18, 20071 legis: intensive programme on legal...

LEFIS General Assembly Meeting, Wroclaw, September 17-18, 2007

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LEGIS: Intensive Programme on Legal Aspects of Information Society

Selahattin KuruIşık University


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identity

Programme: Erasmus LLP (Lifelong Learning Programme)

Type of activity: IP (Intensive Programme)

Duration: 3 years Supporting national agency: Turkey


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partners Işık University, Turkey (Coordinator) University of Zaragoza, Spain, University of Warwick, UK, Vienna University, Austria, Queen’s University of Belfast, UK, Polytechnic Institute of Beja, Portugal, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, University of Wrocklaw, Poland, Mykolas Romieris University, Lithuania, Orebro University, Sweden


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technical programme: topics Globalisation and engineering ethics Data protection / e-signature Regulation of e-government Telecommunications law E-commerce Globalisation and technologies Globalisation / open source IPR Cybercrime / e-democracy Project


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technical programme: lecturers Fernando Galindo Ioannis Iglezakis Mathias Klang Ewa Galewska Manuel Masseno Erich Schweighofer Abdul Paliwala Philip Leith Rimantas Petrauskas Selahattin Kuru


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students

Total of 36 students 3 from Spain 3 from Portugal 5 from UK 6 from Austria 7 from Greece 3 from Sweden 3 from Poland 3 from Lithuania 3 from Turkey


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format

lecture + workshop + project

every day except for the last: lecture in the morning workshop in early afternoon workshop presentation in late afternoon

project: throughout the intensive programme


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workshops

workshop on a different topic every day workshop groups of 3-4 students intercultural dimension: no more than one student

from one country in a group New groups for each workshop each student was required to participate in a total

of 7 workshops out of a total of 9 each group had 2 hours for group discussion and

work to prepare a presentation (on the same day, in the afternoon)

each group presented its workshop result in a 10-minute presentation in the plenary in the afternoon


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project

Groups of 3-4 students for a project topic Group formation rule is the same as for

workshops, i.e. no more than one from one country

Project topics are assigned early in the first week Deliverables were project report (10-30 pages

long), presentation slides, and presentation itself 2 submissions of the report: draft report at the

beginning of the second week, and final report one day to the last day

in the presentations each group had 5 minutes per member and 5 minutes for questions and discussion

presentations done the last day


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evaluation

Each workshop is marked by the lecturer of the topic of the day on a group basis on a scale of 0 to 4

The project is evaluated by one lecturer present the last day (Leith, Petrauskas or Kuru), on a group basis for the report and on an individual basis for individual presentations

Students evaluated their peers (peer evaluation) for the project similarly with lecturers, i.e. project on a group basis and presentations on an individual basis


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ECTS credits

Students will earn 10 ECTS credits, which is offered as two courses from the current course catalogue of Işık University.

The course are ‘CSE587 Special Topics in Computer Engineering: Legal Aspects of Information Society’, and ‘CSE588 Special Topics in Computer Engineering: Project on Legal Aspects of Information Society’

Grade reports and transcripts are to be issued by the registrar’s office of Işık University


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Grading

The grade to be obtained from the workshops is for the course CSE587 Special Topics in Computer Engineering: Legal Aspects of Information Society

The grade to be obtained from project is for the course CSE588 Special Topics in Computer Engineering: Project on Legal Aspects of Information Society

Letter grades used at Işık University for graduate course: AA (4 out of 4) BA (3.5 out of 4) BB (3 out of 4) CB (2.5 out of 4) CC (2 out of 4) F (fail, 0 out of 4)


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Social programme

Visit to Istanbul old city Boat tour on the Bosphorus Visit to Sile Visit to Ortakoy (Istanbul) Parties on campus


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Dissemination

LEGIS poster (A4 and A3) distributed to partners

3 LEGIS newspapers distributed to students

LEGIS web site News release


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Evaluation of IP by students

An extensive questionnaire was used to collect input from students for improving LEGIS in the coming years

Early results show that the students were very satisfied with the intensive programme both in technical sense and socially

Nevertheless students identified several points for improvement

lefis general assembly meeting, wroclaw, september 17-18, 20071 legis: intensive programme on legal...

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orebro university

university of wrocklaw

vienna university

university of warwick

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group discussion

afternooneach group