With the aim of gathering a group of European specialists and share their opinions with those of IVETTE participants, the University of Barcelona is organising this Workshop. We are interested in the transformations that traditional Higher Education institutions need to undertake in the near future in order to adapt themselves to the lifelong learning paradigm. These changes do need a holistic view and should take into consideration the areas IVETTE is proposing for further discussion. The Workshop will also be able to provide policy recommendations to the European Commission.

We have asked 20 European specialists in this area to present their views on the three main issues studied in the project:

- institutional/organisational problems
- teaching and learning approaches
- multi-cultural and multi-lingual issues
The objectives of the workshop are:

- To valorise and synthesise results of specific TSER projects and projects with a socio-economic research dimension of the Educational Multimedia Task Force projects tackling issues related to VLE.

- To build an European conceptualisation and understanding of Virtual Learning Environments based on how are they implemented across different contexts.

- To draw on top class and leading-edge European expertise in order to examine the relationships between institutional, teaching and learning and multi-cultural and multi-lingual issues in Virtual Learning Environments (VLE).

- To validate the results of the studies undertaken in the Thematic Network IVETTE.

Project funded by the Key Action Improving Human Research Potential & The Socio-economic Knowledge-Base (HPHA-CT-2000-00047)

Coordination:

Dr. Mario Barajas
mbarajas@ub.edu