Social Work Virtual Campus

NFF konferanse 14-15 nov 2011: Utdanning i bevegelse

Grete Oline Hole & Anne Karin Larsen

Høgskolen i Bergen

Background

• A collaboration in International Social Work at BA level

• EU grant 2008-2010– 12 HEI involved

• 2011: 7 partners – Organised in a

consortium

Partners: • Bergen University College,

Norway• Mannheim University of Applied

Sciences, Germany• Inholland University of Applied

Sciences, the Netherlands• University of Nordland, Norway• Mittweida University of Applied

Sciences, Germany• Complutence University, Spain• K.H. Kempen University

College, Belgium

VIRCLASS: The Virtual Classroom for Social Work • 2004: Task force group

under EUSW-thematic network: • First e-learning courses

started spring 2005

• Virtual courses for partners’ BA students.

• Made the first Virtual book 2006 – (grants from HiB /

Norgesuniversitetet)

SW-VirCamp

• EACEA funded 2008-2010• Objectives for the project:

“…a Virtual Campus for Social Work in Europe including an international specialisation with e-learning courses, study abroad programmes ….”

• A pilot-course in Community Work held spring 2010

• Virtual learning material for the new course

• Competence-based curriculum plan

• Within the Bologna framework

• Task centred pedagogy– Linking theories and practice

• Reflection on learning• Cooperation and active

participation– Synchron and asynchron

discussion

• Academic writing

Collaboration Development of courses and learning material

Teaching & supervision

Learning material & e-pedagogy

Learning material in blog format: The Green Park Community Case

The Consortium Agreement

• Organisation– Consortium Management Group – Steering Committee– Teacher group

• Work-share among the partners – Agreement upon number of students from each

partner per course– Agreement about the workload for teachers/assessors– Administrative partner fee per year

• Integration of the courses as optional courses in the BA programmes

E-learning courses arranged in 2011• M 1: Social work in Europe Commonalties and differences

(5 ECTS )• M 2: Comparative Social Work Core Issues (3 subjects,

each 10 ECTS)– M 2 a: Discrimination, Oppression and Ethnic Diversity– M 2 b: Poverty and Welfare Systems– M 2 c: Social Work Practice in an European Context

• M 3: Community Work from an International Perspective (15 ECTS)

• E-pedagogy for Teachers in HEI (10 ECTS)

Web portal – for more information visit

http://vircamp.net