EADTU ANNUAL CONFERENCE MADRID, 68 November 2003 EBOLOGNA Portal of Portals MISSION Socrates Minerva

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EADTU ANNUAL CONFERENCEMADRID, 6-8 November
2003 E-BOLOGNAPortal of PortalsMISSION
Socrates Minerva, 2001-2003

• Anna Grabowska
• DECTUG, Gdansk, POLAND

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What is MISSION all about ?

• Mission project aims at strengthening the
  cohesion between the CEE PHARE ODL Centres -
  recently established by the support of the PHARE
  Multi-Country Programme for Distance Education.
• It also aims at improving stability and
  effectiveness of long-term collaboration between
  EuroStudy Centres (coordinated by EADTU) and
  PHARE ODL Centres.
• Finally it focuses on enhancing the awareness of
  ODL as the most effective, innovative and
  flexible methodology for supporting the European
  dimension of Life-Long Learning.

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What are MISSION goals ?

• Establishing a central, multi-lingual (13
  languages) WEB portal and electronic networking
  based on ICT (database, e-newsletter, discussion
  groups, course catalogue, counselling services,
  etc.)
• Besides these advanced electronic tools and
  resources available for the widest generic
  public all over the world special developing
  programmes as HRD programme for ODL Centres and
  Strategic plan for sustainability of ODL
  networking in Europe can be considered as the
  major expected outcomes.

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What are MISSION target groups?

• HRD policy makers and decision makers
• ODL providers
• Course developers
• ICT application developers
• Management staff and academics of universities
  working in dual/mixed mode education system
• Counsellors
• Evaluators
• Distance learners

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DECTUG tasks in the project

• Elaboration of the structure and design of the
  Web portal (Portal of Portals)
• Preparation and maintenance of the Web portal
  during the project lifetime
• Design and development of ODL Centres Database

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Portal of portals - concept
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ODL Centres Database
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ODL Centres Database
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How it was performed...
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Course Catalogue
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Multilingual Web Pages
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Newsletter
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Multilingual Glosary
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Portal of Portals v.1.0
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Thank you very much for your attention