Re.Vica

Name of the project: Reviewing (traces of) European Virtual Campuses
Duration: 2007-2009
Founding source: Erasmus

Aims:
Re.ViCa aims to make an inventory and to carry out a systematic review of cross-institutional Virtual Campus initiatives of the past decade within higher education at European, national and regional levels. The main objective of the Re.ViCa project is to identify relevant parameters and success factors for evaluating and comparing Virtual Campuses, based on thorough research and expert input. The Re.ViCa Consortium organizes in-depth discussions at various stages of the project, to incorporate the input of different interest groups.

Partners:

  1. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven – AVNet (BE)
  2. EuroPACE ivzw (BE)
  3. Audiovisual Technologies, Informatics and Telecommunications bvba (ATiT) (BE);
  4. FernUniversität in Hagen (DE);
  5. Teknillinen korkeakoulu, Koulutuskeskus Dipoli (Helsinki University of Technology, Lifelong Learning Institute Dipoli) (FI);
  6. Université Louis Pasteur (FR);
  7. Nyugat-Magyarországi Egyetem (University of West-Hungary) (HU);
  8. Università Telematica Internazionale UNINETTUNO (International Telematic University UNINETTUNO) (IT);
  9. Matic Media Ltd (UK)

Outcomes:

  1. Inventory of Virtual Campus including
    1. an historical overview
    2. a categorization of Virtual Campus
    3. country reports with description of virtual initiatives in European and non European countries.
    4. 9 in depth case studies
  2. 3 key meetings
  3. Public wiki
  4. Identified success factors
  5. Manual with guidelines, best practices and recommendations
  6. Project website: http://revica.europace.org/