list of practices from case studies, by indra dedze

List of practices from case studies(Indra Dedze)

University Innovations NotesQueen Mary University

of LondonUnited Kingdom

Programme organization (i.e. the administrative structuring of teaching)

The college has a central structure devoted to online teaching and learning specifically is the e-learning unit which is a sub-unit of the Learning Institute. The unit is the first point of contact for both QMUL staff and students who are interested in e-learning and it fulfils two main roles: support and development.

Curriculum delivery (i.e. pedagogical innovations)The Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry has adopted heterogeneous approaches to education; more specifically, the problem based learning approach (used in years 1 and 2) and the case based learning one (implemented in years 3 and 4).

Technology-enriched teaching and learning (i.e. ICT employed in education)

Queen Mary has got lecture capture system in place called Q-Review. Q-Review is a service which teaching staff can use to automatically record live lectures or pre-record supplementary materials (QMUL, News and Events). This has been implemented college wide. The Department of Medical Engineering (at the Faculty of Science and Engineering) makes use of gaming technology to train students before their empirical sessions in laboratories.

Anglia Ruskin

United Kingdom

Programme organization Anglia Ruskin University has a number of operational units which were established to facilitate non-traditional forms of learning such as work-based learning and e-learning. These units often overlap in their work and liaise with faculties to facilitate learning among students.

Curriculum delivery

The ‘Degrees at Work’ initiative blends academic learning with the professional application of acquired skills. The initiative is designed to use the workplace as an active learning environment coupled with formal training and development programmes from Anglia Ruskin University. While the ‘Degrees at Work’ programme allows students to acquire new skills and apply them in their working environment, it also recognises, formalises and validates much of the learning that has already taken place at work.

Technology-enriched teaching and learning

Anglia Ruskin has a system called Personal Capture in place. Personal Capture is a ‘screen capture’ software which records what is on a PC screen. At Anglia Ruskin this option is used much more extensively by the lecturers and students than Learning Capture [Interviewee 3].This technology allows for a user to capture what is on their screen and add audio or a video option to the recording. The benefits of this software means that lectures and information can be shared to the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). The recordings can be used to prepare students for upcoming lectures, in the follow-up to lectures, as well as for online learning.

University of StrasbourgFrance Programme organization ECI (Evaluation Continue Intégrale ECI (Continuous Assessment System) as a tool to improve

the curriculum and students' skills and competences.

Curriculum delivery EEE (Evaluation des enseignements par étudiants) Professors Assessment by students AP ( Approche-Programme) Program-Approach, as a training for professors in order to develop a skills-centred-approach.


CCN (Centre de Culture Numérique/Digital Technology Culture Centre). The aim of centre is to create a connection with citizens, local administrator and to build a bridge between socio-economic actors of Alsace Region, researchers, students, entrepreneurs. CV (Campus Virtuel) The objective is to introduce a flexible process and innovative virtual frame to facilitate networking and exchanges between the members of the university and local and internationals partners.OUN (Observatoire des Usage du Numérique Observatory of the uses of digital technologies).

UCM (University Content Management) with aims to make digital technologies more attractive for teaching and research within the academic community.

ESSEC Business School,France Programme organization Following the Bologna Process ESSEC implemented new university architecture in LMD system

(Bachelor,Master and PhD degree). Creation of Mphil in Management Sciences

Curriculum delivery

Chairs are The heart of innovative process of constituting innovative chairs. The ESSEC has 18 innovative chairs. They were all defined in relation with a corporate or professional environment. Social Entrepreneurship Centre of ExpertiseFlexibility of Curriculum is the most important element of ESSEC innovation. Every student can creates its ours university path with a design learning project. Cognitive Map.CPI “Construction des produits Innovant” (Innovating Products' Construction. It's a program). It's a cooperation program with école Strate and others Master programm. CPI takes place during 6 month. Students and professor collaborates in order to create innovating products. Une grande école : pourquoi pas moi? (Une grande école? Why not me?) It's a a form of affirmative action adapted to the Grandes Écoles.ESSEC has chosen to set up entrance exam preparatory classes offering a specific curriculum in underprivileged neighbourhoods. The difference being that all the students have to take the same entrance exam. These measures, which are closely linked to the French passion for equality, occupy a signification place in the social debate about some innovative practices in the support and selection of students.

Technology-enriched teaching and learning Fablab: It's a laboratory create in order to collect research and development contents, Hi-Techs, Knowledge contents. MOOC: Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) in FUN ( the Digital France University) are used for developpinf the first Social Entrepreneurship Chair in France.



University of Latvia, Latvia

Programme organization

One of the new units that have been established at the University of Latvia is the study program assessment committee. In order to save costs and make the study program accreditation process more efficient, all new study programs prior to their submission for review and detailed development, are discussed by the study program assessment committee at the very early stage of its development.

Curriculum delivery

For the talented students the faculty has invented excellence studies. It is not a separate program. Every teacher is allowed to include into the existing courses something in addition. Approximately half of them have wished to do so. The excellent mark – ten – can be earned for something outside the course.


Open Minded is an education initiative designed in collaboration with University of Latvia providing for personal development and exciting learning process together with Latvia’s leading lecturers.LU Open Minded is project that offers topical courses both as face to face lectures and online. The lectures are organized one per week in the auditorium for a fee or free of charge online. Each course consists from six to twelve lectures, course work and the certificate is issued upon the completion of the course.

Stockholm School of Economics in Riga

Latvia Programme organization

1) Team teaching is teamwork when several professors delivering one course. Several teachers teach different parts of the course. 2) Once per month an advisory board is organized for the administration to meet with students from different committees. As the school enrols students from different countries, than each nationality has its own student representative.

Curriculum delivery

The interactive game on how to develop own business. With the help of the game students can simulate the establishment of their own company and let through the stages of development, recruitment and financial planning for five years. For every decision students are taking a feedback is provided on the remaining cash balance and whether the company goes to a bankrupt or can continue to function. Like in real life, 80% newly established go bankrupt.


MOOCS could be accounted as elective courses, but only for 30% of elective credit points. Five students signed up for MOOCs, the administration had assigned a space on Google drive in order to track student success. Each student has own folder where to upload their assignments and other information related to MOOCs. In spring 2014 these students are awarded credit points for MOOC that are put in the diploma.


Comenius University in Bratislava,Slovakia


The emergence of a new position of the university coordinator of new forms of education. Testing the method of distance learning. International education programs, for example the Week of pharmaceutical education and career, Championship in medical communication, Excellent pharmacy.Joint degree programs, e.g., with the University of Vienna.

Curriculum delivery

Supplementation of the education of teachers who have not studied the pedagogical field of study (i.e. supplementary pedagogical training course). Innovative way of teaching (project-based learning) in which the students have to design their projects and work on them during teaching.The quality of the scientific work of teachers and its implementation into the teaching process, students engagement in solving research tasks, keeping track on individual projects of students during their study.Innovation in form but also in content of the developed study programs with the focus on cultivation and humanisation od the whole society. At bachelor level of study they offer the modern standard, in case of master level of study they require the best possible learning results, at doctoral level of study they require the highest knowledge - efforts to gain a sense of knowing something new.


Introduction of the educational websites that are accessible to all teachers to enable the recording of the lectures and their publication on the website, together with the support application of outputs into teaching on the side of pedagogues allowing system access and inclusion of educational content for the academic staff and students. Modern teaching facilities and technical equipment (interactive boards), the simulator centre, 3D operations, robotic surgery. Provision of electronic services that ensure the success of graduates on the European labour market, ensure the prestige of attained education, improve the learning conditions and scientific research activities.E-learning education through which students have the opportunity to view all lectures, exercises, syllabus, etc.Electronic student inquiry – it was suggested by students of informatics under the auspices of the Vice-Dean for Information-Communication Technologies with the effort to obtain feedback on the quality of the study, the situation of the faculties, and to empower and engage students in improving the quality of teaching. This inquiry (electronic student polls) is carried out twice a year during the examination period of the respective semester; the teachers and subjects are evaluated.


University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava,

Slovakia


Centre for Social Services and Counselling (Faculty of Social Sciences) - the role of the centre is to create opportunities for cooperation with social service providers, civic associations, foundations, charities, so that the theory was linked with practiceInternational Media Education Centre (Faculty of Mass Media Communication) - the main aim of the new project is to link all initiatives of media education in Slovakia and to provide professional and general public in one place a comprehensive and regularly updated information about this issueCentre for European Studies (Faculty of Social Sciences) - the centre is an interdisciplinary department, which is devoted to topical issues of the research areas of the Faculty of Social SciencesPartnerships between schools and businesses Innovation of study programs with an emphasis on linking practice, increase their attractiveness to students, strengthening the competitiveness of graduates

Curriculum delivery

Quality assessment system (UCM) – the system should ensure the quality of teaching staff and to control and monitor the educational process; High qualification structure of workers and educators UCM; Establishment of internal system of quality for education, but also for science and research

Startup and Coworking Centre POINTT (Faculty of Mass Media Communication) – Pointt´s main task is to organize lectures, workshops and mentoringCreative and event agency Atteliér - agency consists of specialized cross workplaces - cabinets. They provide space for creative activities and give the opportunity to apply learned theory into practiceFlexibility in developing curricula


Development and implementation of modern communication technology in teaching process E-learning educationTraining via e-learningDigitization of lecturesInstrumentation innovation - building a multimedia HD studyInnovation of web appearance of faculty web sites, promotional websites and FCB websites


University of Alicante,Spain

Programme organization The new organization of UA education methodology inspired by the construction of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA), focuses on the acquisition of skills where the student becomes the center of the educational process and a methodological change is observed.

Curriculum delivery

The REDES program encourages research projects constituted in collaborative working teams, directing their efforts toward improving teaching in general and the quality of student learning, The objective is the promotion of the exchange of experiences, methodologies and tools to professionals university level in the university community. The programs exist since 12 years and it serve a role model for other universities worldwide.


The UA was one of the first Spanish universities to have planed its teaching and learning activities transversaly and integraly focusing on 2 axes: the use of ICTs and the information to students. Also it has implemented a Virtual Campus, leader to many universities, gradually integrating online educational aspects, administrative management and technological innovations for all user profiles. The Virtual Campus platform serve to make material from teachers available to students, but if the teacher believes that the material has sufficient quality to make it available to everyone they can upload it in RUA, the Institutional Repository of the University of and when various materials available in RUA can form a teaching proposal they can be publish OpenCourseWare. Other tools like FragUA, pUA, etc. were made available to teachers to easily and gradually help them to share their teaching materials in line with the Open Education movement.

Salamanca University,Spain


Escuelas de Español - Is an attempt to use the University´s name as a famous place for learning Spanish in order to create an international franchising company providing jobs for its graduates. A company has been constituted and it is now opening its delegations in different parts of the world. The project also includes the development of specific didactic materials.

Curriculum delivery

moodle based platform: Studium. The university created its own teaching platform, which is being continually updated. An effort has been done in order to train the faculty to integrate the usage of the platform into their classes. Most lecturers use it today in order to manage their teaching materials and to initiate activities with the students.

Technology-enriched teaching and learning Computer based simulator units - in areas such as medicine and engineering in order to provide students with more practical experience.