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2. DISTANCE UNIVERSITY
The VIU was essentially conceived as a university of western
culture and methodology, based on European educational
philosophy, maintained from Plato to our times by way of
Bologna.
But the VIU will not be face to face; it does not call for the
physical gathering of learners around the lecturer, since this
principle of the classic academy, demanded by the limitations of
direct verbal communication, is no longer needed in the VIU,
where classroom sessions are replaced by remote connection
through digital communication networks .

3. LEARNING ASSESSMENT
The VIU, like any other traditional university, will have lecturers and
highly skilled professionals, structuring their lessons to be
understood and learned by the students.
However, it will add a new feature to the general university system;
the VIU will examine and assess the progress of its students
continuously, lesson by lesson, keeping up a stimulating dialogue to
help them optimise their efforts and succeed in their projects.
Moreover, the VIU is a university that will give its students
personalised guidance in their course itineraries by the approaches
most suited to their wishes, expectations, talent, and qualities.

4. ACCESS TO A LESSON
THE VIU EVALUATES AND GUIDES THE
STUDENTS LESSON BY LESSON
2) Studying the lesson
• Archive lessons
• Lessons transmitted live
3) Ex-post evaluation
• Comprehension level grade
• Valid for study calculation
4) Progress report
• Optional tutorials with calendar
• Permanent orientation to follow courses
• Permanent account of credits
1) Ex-ante evaluation
• Sufficient preparation?
• Versions of every class available
• Which curriculum they count towards
• How many points for credits

5. COMPOSITION OF A VIU CREDIT
A B C
The system of progressing until achieving a
degree consists of following a process of
collection of educational units or lessons.
When starting out, the student receives a
map explaining which educational units
they need to obtain different degrees, and
in which order, if necessary, they are to be
studied.
Each section of the collection makes up a
credit.
DEGREEDEGREE

6. THE VIU IS A UNIVERSITY FOR THE
STUDENT

7. THE VIU IS A UNIVERSITY FOR THE STUDENT
Every lecturer from each university in the VIU consortium will
therefore be able to create their own lessons constituting a valid
credit for certain courses. Lessons will be given to VIU students
duly structured, as explained previously, so that the students
understand the credit value of each of them. The students can
then choose which lessons to study and with whom, according
to their own personality.
Lessons learned from the same lecturer, or university, will
constitute a "simple" credit, and lessons studied under different
lecturers from different universities will constitute a "combined"
credit, both with identical value in terms of the course.
In the VIU, the student will be able to receive any lesson from
any lecturer in the consortium, or even the same lesson from
several lecturers from participating universities, but any of them
will count equally towards their credits, and finally their degree.

8. THE VIU IS A UNIVERSITY FOR THE STUDENT
WITH PERSONALITY
In line with the declarations of Bologna and Anglo-Saxon university
tradition, students must be free to earn higher education credits
through lessons from different sources …
The VIU fully complies with this requirement

9. THE VIU ASSESSES AND GUIDES STUDENTS
LESSON BY LESSON
One of the exemplary features of the VIU is the way the studies are
organised for the learners. Whenever a student accesses a
lesson or decides to sign up for a subject, or even a course, they
are given the chance to respond to a prior evaluation test, where
they are assessed on the following basis:
1) If they show sufficient preparation to make good use of the
knowledge they wish to access.
2) How many versions of the subject they want to study are available
in the VIU consortium.
3) Which curriculum will give credits for the content they wish to
access.
4) What the grades for each of these courses will be worth to them.

10. THE VIU ASSESSES AND GUIDES STUDENTS
LESSON BY LESSON
After this ex-ante evaluation, they will have access to the content,
arranged as lessons, which may be on file or live, according to a
calendar described in the catalogue of versions available.
After each lesson is received, the student, via the network, responds
to an ex-post evaluation, from which they obtain a grade of their
level of understanding valid for the calculation of studies with the
consideration of credits for each degree to which they may aspire.
After each ex-post evaluation, the student receives a report detailing
their progress towards each of the qualifications, as well as optional
tutorials by dialogue via Internet in the language and schedules
agreed.

11. CERTIFICATIONS AND DEGREES
The VIU is a university where officially recognised
certificates and degrees can be obtained, from the VIU, while
fostering the achievement of official qualifications from
associated universities, in the purest spirit of the European
higher education convergence process started up as a result
of the Declaration of Bologna in 1999.

12. PERSONA AND PERSONALITY OF THE VIU:
CONSORTIAL UNIVERSITY
The VIU will set out with:
Just over ten degree and postgraduate courses, with
the VIU’s own programmes

13. Not face-to-face
Will have lecturers
Continuous
assessment
Both degree and
postgraduate study
courses can be
taken
GENERAL DESCRIPTION

14. PERSONA AND PERSONALITY OF THE VIU:
CONSORTIAL UNIVERSITY
The VIU is designed as a University consisting of universities
united in a consortium, including studies from all over the
world under its auspices, through cooperation agreements
with the different Universities to grant official and own
credits and qualifications from each university and country
integrated in the partnership.

15. Universality through Consortium
University of Universities
PERSONA AND PERSONALITY OF THE
VIU: CONSORTIAL UNIVERSITY

16. PERSONA AND PERSONALITY OF THE
VIU: CONSORTIAL UNIVERSITY
The VIU will set out with:
Just over ten degree and postgraduate courses,
with the VIU’s own programmes
The VIU will go beyond centripetal
universality:
To become a University of Universities,
constituting an international consortium of
universities

17. THE VIU IS A UNIVERSITY FOR
UNIVERSITIES
The progressive adhesion of close and distant
universities, even culturally, constitutes the
wealth of the consortiums of universities such
as the VIU

18. THE VIU IS A UNIVERSITY
FOR UNIVERSITIES
The consortial formula of the VIU allows the progressive and voluntary
incorporation of whichever universities feel inclined and prepared to join
the association, at the time they deem advisable in their own interests. For
example: the Western Governors University consortium, in the USA,
brought together 50 universities in 30 states over a 6 year period.

19. PERSONA AND PERSONALITY OF
THE VIU: CONSORTIAL UNIVERSITY
The VIU as international consortium of universities
extends its activities to the whole world

20. 1. Valencian students at a
distance from the
university centres
2. Students depending on
employment
3. Students temporarily
displaced
4. Students carrying out
humanitarian works and carers
THE VIU IS A UNIVERSITY FOR THE
STUDENT
Solution for
different
student
types

21. THE VIU IS A UNIVERSITY FOR
UNIVERSITIES

22. MAIN CONSORTIUM
CONSTITUENTS Sharing educational
programmes
Mutual recognition of equal
value for the lessons
A common system of
examinations and assessment
Recognising combined credits
for the students
PERSONA AND PERSONALITY OF THE VIU:
CONSORTIAL UNIVERSITY

23. PERSONA AND PERSONALITY OF THE VIU:
CONSORTIAL UNIVERSITY
A student from the Valencian Community will be able to study,
without moving from the Community, at any university in the
Valencian Region, or in Spain, or Europe, or North America, or
any other country with a university included in the VIU
consortium.
Likewise, any student from anywhere in the world will be able
to study, from any place in the world, at any of the seven
universities of the Valencian Community united in partnership
with the VIU.
This consortial nature is one of the VIU’s defining features,
like in universities already experienced, such as Phoenix and
Western Governors in the USA, or Helsinki in Europe.

24. THE VIU IS A UNIVERSITY FOR THE
STUDENT
PRINCIPLE OF PEER RECOGNITION OF LESSONS
LESSONS
INTERNATIONALLY
EQUIVALENT CREDITS
DEGREE = COLLECTION OF CREDITS
SUBJECTS STUDIED

25. THE VIU IS A UNIVERSITY FOR THE
STUDENT
VIU SYSTEM
Own conclusions
Choice of
knowledge sources
Wide range of opportunities for the student
Opportunity to order one’s own curriculum

26. Specific Professional
Training
• Specific and individualised training
programmes
• Multiplicity of combinations
Innovation
• Specific knowledge
• Broad field of technological know-
how
Chambers of Commerce and
Business Associations
• Evaluating, accrediting and
extending training programmes to
SMEs
THE VIU IS A UNIVERSITY FOR INDUSTRIAL
AND BUSINESS SOCIETY
Own educational
programmes
• Offer to employees and
candidates

27. RESEARCH
The VIU will be a space for research and creation of new knowledge.
Use of the international connections network and access agreements
to information resources worldwide enables the VIU to make a broad
spectrum of intellectual cooperation available to its researchers, as
well as an enormous bank of data and theories without limits,
ordered and accessible to students and researchers from all over the
world.

28. THE VIU IS A UNIVERSITY FOR THE
STUDENT
Peer acknowledgement of the teachings is fundamental in the VIU.
This mutual recognition specifically takes shape in the universal
system of calculation of the studies undertaken, in other words:
In line with European convergence proposals, the subjects studied are
segmented in lessons, which in turn are ordered in thematic packages
or credits with international equivalence, in such a way that the
degrees are obtained when the student has earned all the credits
required for a curriculum, in amount and quality, but regardless of their
origin.
In this sense, the personality of the VIU stems from the fact that the
students can choose the lessons and the credits they wish from
among all the equivalents offered by all the universities in the
consortium.
A credit from the VIU, and therefore from the consortium, may be
earned with lessons learned under any professor in the consortium.