Description:

The regional project ARMAZEG aims to implement higher educational reform in Armenian and Georgian universities with a view of societal impact, by enabling them to meet the challenges posed by globalization and changes in operating environment, through developing and implementing relevant lifelong learning programmes supported through e-learning. Main objectives of the project will be: (1) to foster e-learning in university education as an integral part of the education process and as a way to improve quality of university education and a way to provide lifelong learning to society at large; and (2) to amend university regulations to foster usage of e-learning. This will be done in a number of chronological steps: 1. The development of strategic and operational (policy) framework and university documents for the implementation of lifelong learning supported through e-learning 2. The development of a business and implementation plan and the establishment of Centers for e-learning with trained staff in administrative/organizational, pedagogical and technological aspects of e-learning 3. The organisation of capacity building and training workshops in the field of e-learning and to prepare staff and society for lifelong learning 4. The development of a quality assurance plan and set-up of pilot projects on the implementation of e-learning. These four different steps will be closely monitored and evaluated, not only by the project consortium, but also by an external evaluator. In addition, throughout the entire project lifetime, these activities will be accompanied by dissemination activities within the academic community and student bodies dedicated to the promotion of e-learning and technology-enhanced learning as a powerful mechanism for improvement of university education and lifelong learning more in general.

Identifier:

oai:noad.sci.am:136070

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Affiliation:

Università degli Studi di Firenze – Italy ; Universidad of Granada – Spain ; European Distance and E-Learning Network – Hungary ; State Engineering University of Armenia (SEUA) ; Armenian State Pedagogical University after Kh. Abovian (ASPU) ; Institute for Informatics and Automation Problems ; Orbeli Institute of Physiology of NAS RA ; Ministry of Education and Science ; Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University ; Georgian Technical University ; St. Andrew the First-Called Georgian University

Time period:

2013-2016

Number of grants:

544605-TEMPUS-1-2013-1-BE-TEMPUS-JPHES

Foundation:

TEMPUS PROJECTS