The project aims to establish a collaborative network of European and Israeli institutions with experience using virtual worlds for education. The network will share best practices for developing online courses in virtual platforms and create a framework for good practice implementation. Partners will evaluate the impact of established practices across different learner levels and contexts. The goals are to share experiences, evaluate the good practice framework, and disseminate the results more widely.

1. A quick overview of the project

2. The Project –An Overview
This network brings together for the first time, a range of public and private
institutions from across Europe and in Israel, who have experience in the use
and development of online virtual platforms for education across a range of
disciplines (i.e. language education, cultural studies, literature, economics,
religious studies, media studies, intercultural communication, digital design,
computer science and software engineering, science including physics) and
contexts (lower and higher education, educational and business). The network
aims to learn from the experiences of partners within the group of
organisations involved, pool together knowledge and resources from previous
projects and create guidance to other practitioners on good practice
implementation of courses within virtual worlds (in the form of a good practice
framework). It also aims to evaluate the impact of established good practice
through evaluation within partner organisations and other interested parties
from outside the consortium. This evaluation will take place across multiple
learner stages of the learning continuum (lower and higher education) and
contexts.

3. The Project –An Overview
The aim of this project is to:
• Establish a network designed to
WP1: Sharing
collaboratively share good practice
in virtual worlds, with the wider WP2: Transformation
community of interested
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organisations/individuals across
disciplinary boundaries, and at
WP3: Exploitation
different levels of education.
• Share experiences in the creation WP4: Evaluation
of a good practice framework.
• Evaluate this good practice WP5:Management
framework within the network.
WP6: Dissemination

4. Partners
P1 University of Hull, UK
P2 CCI Jura, FR
P3 Università Statale Gugliemo Marconi, IT
P4 University of Utrecht, NL
P5 TELLConsult, NL
P6 Molde University College, NO
P7 Umeå University, SE
P8 Manchester University, UK
P9 University of Strasbourg, FR
P10 Linnaeus University, SE
P11 Consorzio Forcom, IT
P12 talkademy.org - Verein Offenes Lernen, AT
P13 Coimbra University, PT
P14 Cyprus University, CY
P15 Bielefeld University, DE
P16 ICC International Language Network, DE
P17 Kiel University, DE
P18 SSE, SE
P1TC (Third Country Partner) Technion, IL

5. Developing Community of Associated
Institutions
A1 Mittuniversitetet Sundsvall, Sweden
A2 CLI, University of Pisa, Italy
A3 University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
A4 University of Leicester, UK
A5 University of Valencia, Spain
A6 University of Granada, Spain
A7 Nevsky Institute: Elena University St
Petesburg, Russia
A8 Comenius secondary school, The Netherlands
A9 Alhambra secondary school Granada, Spain
A10 Bar Ilan University, Israel
A11 Réseau National des Centres d’Etude des Langues
des Chambres de Commerce et d’Industrie, France
A12 University of Vienna, Austria
A13 Steinbeis Transferzentrum Sprachlernmedien,
Germany
A14 Nixward New Media Creations, Netherlands
A15 University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Austria
A16 Universität Zürich, Swiss
A17 Technische Universität Wien, Austria
A18 University of Tubingen, Germany
A19 British Council Barcelona, Spain
A20 Pixel Online, Italy
A21 Sciences du langage/Université Stendhal Grenoble,
France

7. Collecting Shared Experiences
Collecting existing experiences and
resources from within the
community.
Generating a video bank of data
from partners about key L&T issues
encountered within virtual spaces.
Understanding key lifecycle issues in
virtual course development/delivery.

9. Developing a Good Practice Framework
Transforming experiences into good
practice guidance.
Development of a Good Practice
Framework.
Application of the framework in new
contexts.
Feedback, evaluation and change in
collaboration with WP4.

11. Exploiting our Network Resources
Looking towards content licensing
strategies.
Sustainability and resource sharing.
Development of an Exploitation
Framework.
Flexibility.

13. Evaluating what we deliver
Evaluating the Good Practice
Framework.
Evaluating the Euroversity project.
Metric definition and data collection.

15. Managing the Project
Meetings (Physical and Virtual).
Process Overview and Management.
Deliverable tracking and control.
Funding body connectivity.

17. Telling others about us
Promotion and Dissemination
Activities.
Website.
Press releases.
Conferences.
Workshops.
In-world events etc.
Tracking activity.