OpenVM Workshop "Designing the Virtual Mobility Learning Hub for Higher Education in Europe" at EDEN 2018 annual conference in Genoa, Italy, 19 June 2018. Open Virtual Mobility is an Erasmus+ strategic partnership (2017-2020), https://www.openvirtualmobility.eu/about/444-project-summary/

1. Disclaimer: The creation of these resources has been (partially) funded by the ERASMUS+ grant program of the European Union under grant no.
2017-1-DE01-KA203-003494. Neither the European Commission nor the project's national funding agency DAAD are responsible for the content or
liable for any losses or damage resulting of the use of these resources.
EDEN ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2018, Genua (Italy), 19 June 2018
Ilona Buchem, Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Germany, Antonella Poce, Francesco Agrusti, Roma Tre
University, Italy, Diana Andone, Universitatea Politehnica Timisoara, Romania
Designing the Virtual Mobility Learning
Hub for Higher Education in Europe

2. Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership (2017 - 2020)
http://www.openvirtualmobility.eu

3. Project objectives:
1. Enhance the uptake of Open Virtual Mobility by improving VM
skills of educators and students.
2. Create a European OpenVM Learning Hub for achievement,
assessment and recognition of VM skills.
3. Develop a set of innovative tools and methods to enhance
achievement, assessment and recognition of VM skills.

4. What are we working on?

5. What is virtual mobility?
Virtual mobility creates accessible, flexible, scalable and cost-
effective solutions for all types of curricula, especially in
collaborative curricula. (…) Essential elements (of VM) are:
• an institutional agreement
• a course catalogue with pre-assessed and recognised
online courses or learning activities
• a student application form
• a learning agreement
• transcript of records
Ubachs, G., & Henderikx, P. (2018). EADTU Mobility Matrix, (pp. 26). Maastricht, NL: EADTU.

6. How does VM work in practice?
Ubachs, G., & Henderikx, P. (2018). EADTU Mobility Matrix, (pp. 26). Maastricht, NL: EADTU.

7. Opening virtual mobility
Different forms of Virtual Mobility on a continuum from formalised to informal VM:

8. • Scalability. Different forms of VM can engage more students
as there are less barriers for (virtual) mobility.
• Flexibility. Informal VM can be applied in a wider variety of
contexts and can enhance the uptake of formal VM.
• Collaboration. Informal VM fosters collaborative learning
spaces and communities of learning.
Benefits of opening virtual mobility:

9. 1. Have you been involved in a virtual mobility
program/activity?
2. Or working/learning/teaching remotely with/to
another higher education institution?
3. As a teacher do you involve students to learn/
participate in projects with students from another
higher education institution?
Your experiences with VM

10. OpenVM Learning Hub

11. Open Virtual Mobility Learning Hub comprises:
VM Skills - a description of virtual mobility skills including alignment to existing competency
frameworks in a competency directory (O3); this includes VM e-assessment - different forms of
digital self-/assessment including digital evidence (such as testimonials, digital assets, e-
portfolios, crowd evidencing) applied as elements of open credentials and supporting open,
evidence-based assessment (O4);
VM Open Credentials - digital recognition of VM skills based on current forms of open digital
credentials such as Open Badges and Blockcerts (O5);
VM Learning - User Generated Content, Open Educational Resources and other forms of
Open Content to support learning about VM and developing VM Skills (O6); this includes also
the VM Activities - Open Learning Activities including learning in and through MOOCs, peer-to-
peer activities, virtual/blended collaborations (O6);
VM Market / Connections - finding cooperation partners for VM activities supported by such
tools as the Matching Tool including matching for collaboration of groups (O3);

12. OpenVM Learning Hub Use Cases
Teacher from a partner institution scenario

13. OpenVM Learning Hub Use Cases
Student from a partner institution scenario

14. Designing OpenVM Learning Hub
https://hub.openvirtualmobility.eu/login/index.php

15. Your perspective:
• If you wanted to run a virtual mobility program/activity
involving students/teachers what would you need from
an OpenVM Learning Hub?
• What are the key issues when developing/running a
virtual mobility and which should we consider in
designing the Learning Hub?
Designing OpenVM Learning Hub

16. Visit the Open Virtual Mobility Learning Hub
https://hub.openvirtualmobility.eu/
Autumn 2018
Learn. Meet. Work. Assess. OpenBadges.
Please complete this survey for the OpenVM
Learning Hub Structure evaluation
https://tinyurl.com/openvmLH available for the
next 5 days
Designing OpenVM Learning Hub

17. Thank you!
Project website: http://www.openvirtualmobility.eu/
Learning Hub: https://hub.openvirtualmobility.eu/