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» 24. April 06
CONFERENCES:
VIRCLASS PROJECT presented by Grete Oline Hole at the 15th EDEN conference 14-16 June 2006 in Vienna, Austria.
VIRCLASS project presented by Klas-Göran Olsson and Anne Karin Larsen at the NetLearning Conference in Ronneby, Sweden 8-10 May 2006
» 21. April 2006
The meeting at Fachhochschule Vorarlberg in Dornbirn 15-19 March was productive and resulted in a new Curriculum Plan for Social Work in EUrope. The e-learning courses will start 16.October 2006.
Development of a new administrative model goes on and the production of the Virtual Book will be intensified during the next months.
For more information see the report from the meeting
» THE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMME SOCIAL WORK IN EUROPE STARTS AGAIN 16 OCTOBER 2006 !
NEW EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION 1. OCT 2006.
We have the pleasure to invite students at Bachelor level (from 2nd year < ), professional social workers as well as postgraduate students to the e-learning courses in SOCIAL WORK IN EUROPE.
Join the courses and achieve an international perspective on social work and a new perspective on your own work!
Read the Curriculum plan . Find the Application Form. See the pamphlet.
How to become a student
»15 -19 March 2006 THE VIRCLASS PROJECT IS VISITING DORNBIRN.
The next meeting in the VIRCLASS project will be 15-19. March This time the meeting is going to be held in Dornbirn, Austria. The host University is Fachhochschule Vorarlberg. The agenda for the meeting is to finish the work on the new Curriculum Plan, and to continue with the work on the Virtual Book and to find a solution to future Administration and Finance of the next courses in European Social Work. We are planning to start the first module in the middle of October this year. Information about new application will follow later.
Programme for the meeting
Dornbirn
»9 - 11 February VIRCLASS project presented at the 6th Nordic Conference of FORSA (Nordic Societies for Social Work Research) in Helsinki 9-11 February 2006.
The focus of the conference was: Social Work in the Information Era - Polarisations and New Paradigms in Knowledge Production
The VIRCLASS project was presented in a workshop by
Anne Karin Larsen, Bergen University College, department of Health and Social Sciences and Klas-Göran Olsson, Jönkøping University, School of Health Sciences
Look for paper presentation
Klas-Göran Olsson
»NEW POSTER FOR THE VIRCLASS PROJECT
»2-5 February 2006 VIRCLASS meeting in
Bergen 2-5 February.
Partners in VIRCLASS had a four days meeting in Bergen and prepared products for the Virtual Book and the new curriculum plan.
Report from the meeting
»2-5 February 2006 Preparing for new courses
15 members of the VIRCLASS project will meet in Bergen this week. Programme for the meeting is starting the development of a Virtual Book with study material for the next educational programme, that we hope will start in middle of October this year.
The study plan will be slightly different from the first one and we are also working on a new administrative and financial model for running of the e-learning courses.
Programme for the meeting.
» NEW FUNDING FOR THE VIRCLASS PROJECT
The VIRCLASS project has once more been funded by the Norway Opening University (NUV).
This means that we can be able to start production of a VIRTUAL BOOK and to develop the next project elements that have been planned for the next two years.
» VIRCLASS and the partnership in EUSW
VIRCLASS has become a TASK FORCE group in the EUSW: European Platform for World Wide Social Work. VIRCLASS will keep the autonomy, and will offer educational programmes to the whole EUSW network. We will recruit teachers and assessors from the EUSW partners. EUSW
The ODL aspects in EUSW have been strengthen for the new project period. A new ODL group in EUSW is established in addition to the VIRCLASS project. This means that we can expect more use of Open Distance Learning (ODL) in the future. Experiences done in the VIRCLASS project will be of importance also for the new ODL group.
15-19. September 2005 Amsterdam meeting is over
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»The pilot project period is over and evaluation and suggestions for future activities and co operation will take place in the VirClass meeting in Amsterdam 15-19. September 2005. See the Programme
17.08.05 Summer school in Parma is over
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MODULE 2 IS ENDED AND SUMMER SCHOOL IN PARMA WILL START VERY SOON
36 students from 13 countries in Europe have participated for first time in the VIRTUAL CLASSROOM for Social Work in Europe. They come from: Lituania, Poland, Macedonia, Russia, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Spain, Austria. And 24 students delivered their exam in Comparative Social Work in Europe in the middle of June 2005.
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While 21 students have prepared for the SUMMER SCHOOL in PARMA, ITALY by participating in the e-learning programme in Module 2, 22 students do the self-study part in module 3 and prepare for the two week summer school in this way. 43 Students will be together for two weeks in Parma and join the international summer school in Social Work from 16.-31.July.
See the programme for the summer school
Module 1 e-learning is over and the course turned out to be a success
About 30 students from 14 countries delivered their final assignment in the course
Social Work in Europe 12. March.
The evaluation of the course is good and most of the students seem to be satisfied with the organisation and structure in the Virtual Classroom. The platform has been easy to navigate in and there have been few technical problems.
In the end of February 11 teachers who will be responsible for the running of the next module came together at the University College of Jønkøping in Sweden to make the last planning for the next courses.
To be an e-learning teacher is new for most of the teachers and the instruction and help from Morten Fahlvik at the Mediacentre, Bergen University College have been a good help in this process.
About 70 students in 5 different courses will participate in the next module starting
14. March.
 Working group meeting in Jønkøping, Sweden:
From left: Answin Weissenborn, Annamaria Campanini, Kerstin Gynnerstedt, Kjell Henriksbø, Morten Fahlvik, Eduardo de Marques, Andres Astray, Bob Sanders, Carsten Otte.
Behind from left: Annika Halen, Klas-Göran Olsson, Julija Eidukeviciute
Photo: Anne Karin Larsen
The applications for the European Social Work study have been satisfying. A lot of students from all parts of Europe have applied for the courses and have received answer to their applications.
The Module 1 Social Work in Europe will start as e-learning study with 56 students from 14 different countries in Europe. Students who enter this course will receive necessary information (username and password) to be able to enter the VIRTUAL CLASSROOM before the course starts 24th January 2005.
The number of self-study students in Module 1 Social Work in Europe are about 61.
The self-study course will start 1st March and students will receive an e-mail with information about how to work during their study period, and who to be in contact with. This information will be sent by e-mail to the participants in the middle of February.
The Module 2 Comparative Social Work is an e-learning course only. This Module has received applications from 71 students. The 5 courses will start with international groups of students 14th March and new e-learning students in this Module will receive their username and passwords in the beginning of March.
Module 3 – Social Work as a Subject and Profession in Europe will have 100 students from 21 countries in Europe joining the Summer School. in Parma, Italy. The preparatory part starts 9th May (for students who have not been part of Module 2).
Summer School in Parma takes place 16 – 31st July.
WE WISH YOU WELCOME AS STUDENT TO AN INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMME!
Closing date for application to join the study will be
29. November 2004. Application form List of contactpersons
The curriculum plan for the study programme SOCIAL WORK IN EUROPE is ready. The Curriculum Plan consists of three modules and is now available for reading here
Powerpoint - presentation of the curriculum plan you will find here ( 768Kb )
Flyer presentation
The Virtual Classroom will open in January 2005 and offer professional social workers and students in social work an opportunity to study and communicate with other students all over Europe.
The Summer School in Parma, Italy will take place
16. – 31. July 2005, this is an important part of the educational programme.
Teachers meeting in Bergen
Professors and teachers from University Colleges in 10 countries in Europe met together in Bergen, Norway from 24.September – 2. October 2004. They are preparing the educational programme of social work in Europe starting in the middle of January 2005.
Read more about the meeting in Bergen
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