Implementing Change: Theory and Practice The University of Viennas BolognaOffice

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Implementing Change Theory and PracticeThe
University of Viennas Bologna-Office

• Vienna, May 29, 2008

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A short look back

• 2005 - challenge of looming Bologna Reforms
  coupled with ambition to tackle Bologna
  pro-actively and with an encompassing strategy
• ambition of the university leadership to
  implement Bologna with broad agreement of
  stakeholders and consens-oriented - to launch
  dialogue while implementing new governance
  mechanisms and instruments
• Soon emerged that a central platform was
  necessary to offer the anticipated support,
  supervision, coordination and information
  brokering agendas which come with Bologna - not a
  one-off event but one with a lasting legacy and
  enormous institutional spin-offs

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A short look back II

• On January 1, 2006 the University of Vienna
  launched its Bologna-Office in order to swiftly
  implement the goals set out in the Development
  Plan. The bulk of the costs was financed by the
  Federal Ministry of Education. The Bologna-Office
  was tasked and authorised to adress all questions
  pertaining to issues of the Bologna Reforms.
• Central task on basis of accorded key documents
  and framework papers support and consulting of
  faculties with the design of the new curricula
• staff - tailor-made profiles
• In order to achieve acceptance among academic
  staff vital to assemble staff which reflects
  academic diversity of the institutions. Added
  benefit awareness of diverse academic cultures
  and specifics which can be taken into account
  when facing new challenges

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Bologna Reforms at the University of Vienna - an
illustration
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Structure of the Bologna-Office I

• Structure of the Office - currently 6 staff
• Ao. Univ. Prof. Ilse Schrittesser - Head of the
  Bologna-Office
• Mag. David Baldinger - Deputy Head of the
  Bologna-Office
• Mag. Harald Edlinger
• Gisela Kriegler
• Alexander Diesenreiter
• DI Volker Eckl

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Structure of the Bologna-Office II

• Structure of the Office staff profiles
• Mag. David Baldinger philologies, PhD, Joint
  Degrees
• Mag. Harald Edlinger - historical studies,
  teachers education
• Mag. Levente Koltai study law
• Mag. Gisela Kriegler - complementary
  curricula/employability
• Alexander Diesenreiter accounting,
  administration
• DI Volker Eckl knowledge management and
  information design

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Degree programmes at the University of Vienna

• Current curricula from African Studies to Zoology
• 26 bachelor, 47 masters, 34 diploma
  programmes
• 24 teacher accreditation programmes
• doctoral programmes in more than 80 fields of
  study
• Fall 2008/09
• 52 bachelor, 108 master, 6 diploma programmes

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Bologna-Office Services I

• Counselling with design of new curricula
• support with formulating learning outcomes
• support and counselling with reference to
  issues of study law legal implications
• support with challenge of modularisation
• financial implications and cost estimations of
  curricula
• graphic presenation of study paths and workload
• research and compilation of information (z.B.
  reference universities, international
  comparability)

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Bologna-Office Services I

• Example Counselling with new Musicology
  curricula
• Challenge profile of the master programme
• research at comparable institutions
• feedback loops and direct visits to the working
  group
• new adapted time frames (roadmaps)
• organise and moderate meetings with university
  leadership
• consensus-based agreement on new structure of
  profiled master programme - accentuation of three
  major paths

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Bologna-Office Services II

• In cooperation with Rectorate and Senate
• develop framework papers incl.
• Master curriculum
• Bologna Compendium
• Etc.
• participate in standing working groups

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Bologna-Office Services II

• Master Curriculum
• BACHELORSTUDIUM AN DER UNIVERSITÄT WIEN
• Version 06.12.2007
• Studium
• Studienziel(e) und Qualifikationsprofil
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• (1) Das Ziel des Bachelorstudiums an der
  Universität Wien ist
• (2) Die Absolventinnen und Absolventen des
  Bachelorstudiums an der Universität Wien sind
  befähigt erhalten , verfügen über
• Dauer und Umfang
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Bologna-Office Services II - online glossary
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Bologna-Office Services III

• BO acts as moderator of communication processes
• Organisation of Expert Workshops and Bologna
  events
• (e.g. Forum European Higher Education Area)
• Organisation and hosting of communication
  processes between stakeholders of curricular
  development Rectorate, Senate, Curricular
  Commission, Curricular Working Groups, Study
  Programme Directors
• gt A workload we underestimated Bologna calls for
  a refocusing - are internal information and
  communication pathways still adequate and
  effective?

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Bologna-Office Services III

• Website featuring current information
• Pool of information at http//bologna.univie.ac.at
  /
• As an institutional Bologna memory - dynamics
  change - instrumental to have a solid data base
• featuring
• working paper on curricula development
• Glossary on the Bologna Reforms (as translated
  by the University of Vienna)
• Interviews with international experts
• news on the current Bologna developments

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Project finalisation 2008 I

• Counselling and support of the faculties
• Organisation and management of Bologna
  informationm events and information strategies
  geared at the university public - to further
  boost awareness of Bologna Reforms
• Initiate and host inner-university communication
  processes
• Knowledge management of best practice and
  experiences of implementing Bologna at the
  University of Vienna

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Project finalisation 2008 II

• Crossroads and relais between zwischen european,
  national and local institutions working on and
  within the Bologna Process
• Research activities on current topics of the
  Bologna Process PhD, workload studies,
  employability
• Accompany implementation process of new curricula
  as well as organisation of further feedback loops
  for those curricula still pending accreditation
  by the Curricula Commission
• Operational support for inner-university working
  groups working group on coordination of
  teaching strategies, steering group on the future
  of teacher education, Joint Degrees Commission

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preview 2009 - 2012 I

• Integration of Bologna-Office and Centre for
  Development of Teaching
• Creation of a Centre for Teaching and Learning
  (CTL)
• To boost didactic profiling of degree programmes
  at the University of Vienna
• To further develop curricula to the highest
  standards
• To accompany and manage new and innovative
  didactic models

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preview 2009 - 2012 II

• goal to create a unit to support the University
  of Vienna Wien and its Faculties with design of
  new profiled curricula
• To support with optimising existing (e-learning
  supported) degree programmes
• The implementation of the CTL shall guarantee and
  safeguard the accentuation of degree programmes,
  their systematic quality awareness and
  development launched by the Bologna Process
• Beyond 2010

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Where to go

• http//bologna.univie.ac.at/