CEENet Potential and Activities Kiev, 30 September, 2004 Jacek Gajewski Sylwia Rudnik
What is CEENet?
CEENet Central and Eastern European Networking Association is an association (organized and subcontracted by Vienna University, registered in Austria, HQ in Warsaw) of 26 national organizations from CEE and fSU countries, which focus on academic, research and educational computer networking.
Geographical Scope of CEENet
CEENet Educational Activities
CEENet organizes workshops on: •Network Policy •Network Managerial Methods •Network Technology •Distance Education Technology (E-course Incubators)
CEENet Potential
CEENet maintains direct contacts to ca. 80 ICT educational organizations in 20+ countries and to ca. 600 former students, often in key positions in CEE/fSU ICT sector. CEENet maintains indirect (one step only via respective NREN) to major universities and research institutes in all new EU member states (and beyond‌) CEENet was/is a member of several international ICT projects funded by EC, NATO Science Committee, Open Society Institute, UNDP etc., involving EU and (pre-) accession countries.
CEENet Potential
Human network and knowledge base 30+ lecturers in all aspects of networking 20+ course designers and developers for face to face and distance teaching. 8 years of experience in logistic and management of educational and training events in ICT 4 years of experience with distance education – from design to running courses Access to almost 30 member NRENs and more than 600 former students.
@DULINE Project (FP5 – Grundvig program)
Two e-courses for educators have been created, tested and evaluated: Course Design Course (for e-designers) Online Tutoring Course (for e-tutors) Web-based course material has been produced by experts from 8 countries and translated into 7 languages (English, Portuguese, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Estonian and Lithuanian).
@DULINE Evaluated Models
Pattern 1: International (same culture) groups of learners and tutors (Finland, Sweden, Estonia) Pattern 2: National groups with international peer review (Lithuania, Portugal) Pattern 3: National groups (Scotland, Denmark) Pattern 4: Fully mixed international groups (15 nations, 5 time zones, 5 religions) across an existing distance learning network (CEENet)