The Global Bangemann Challenge 1999:
The Living Lectures - Virtual University Project
http://vu.wu-wien.ac.at/
Objectives
The
Living Lectures - Virtual University project of the Vienna University of
Economics and Business Administration aims at improving research and
education by creatively using available information technology for the
benefit of all of its members and the general public.
Project description
At the moment (December 1998) the Virtual University
consists of the following parts:
- Living Lectures contains WU Lectures supported on the Web.
- Tools & Manual for Web-Publishing, Programming,
- WU Information for WU Departments, Services
- VU Library with Newspapers, Journals, Search Engines
- Materials Collection for Research Topics
- Recreation with Music, Travel, Sports
In the current project
phase the growth of the project is supported by the following activities
which mutually support each other:
- The WU-Innovation Competition 1998.
- The Educational Program.
- Ongoing development of the Virtual University Environment for the
intelligent support of a learning organization.
Technologically,
the project heavily relies an Internet agents of all kinds to increase the
benefits of the users of the virtual university.
The project
addresses the problems of a mass university(21 000 students, relation
lecturer/students 1:69) with an excellent technical infra-structure and
high Internet penetration (16 000 student accounts, 75 percent Internet
penetration):
high production and distribution cost of educational
material, small number of participants in specialized lectures, disparity
of work versus benefit (lecturer), knowledge dissemination and
organizational learning, team-building, non-cooperative behavior
(prisoner's dilemma).
The objectives of the project include
- increasing student and lecturer awareness of the potential of new
media
- communicate immediate benefits to students and lecturers
- collect available lectures and improve access to lectures -
- immediately improve access of the general public (citizens and
companies) to university courses, projects, and research facilities
- improve course quality by feedback and error reporting and a shorter
product life cycle and by stimulating feedback from outside of the
university
- base corporate change on network externalities
Project Team
- Andreas Geyer-Schulz
- Michael Hahsler
- Georg Schneider
Postal address:
Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
(WU-Wien)
Department of Applied Computer Science
Augasse 2-6
A-1090 Vienna, Austria