NEWS

LOVE.DIST@NCE project consortium meeting was held on 13-14 September, 2021.

The meeting was originally planned at Batumi State University, but due to the epidemiological situation in Georgia, it was decided to conduct it online. The first day was devoted to presentations of online courses, the ones that Israeli partners already piloted and those that will be piloted in the Fall Semester, both in Georgia and Israel. On the second day of the meeting, partners discussed the forms and techniques of assessing the quality of online classes and agreed on a Framework that was prepared by the Spanish colleagues from Funiber. By the end of the meeting partners also discussed the topics from project management, quality and dissemination tasks.

Project in Brief

Project aims to promote inclusive education in Israel and Georgia by widening access to higher education for potential and existing students.

Specific objectives are: build capacities in Israel and Georgia that will enable their HE systems to accommodate effective distance learning programs; develop curricula offer in Israel and Georgia based on distance learning, that responds to the requirements for equity and accessibility of the partner countries HE systems to improve the educational integration of disadvantaged learners in their educational system; to coach and train faculty members, professional and administrative staff on the design, development, implementation and quality assessment of e/blended-learning and distance education courses; raise the public awareness of access to, equity, and democratization of HE, to promote social inclusion; facilitate transfer of best practices to expand access to, participation in, and successful completion of distance learning programs.

Project coordinator: Polytechnic University of Porto

2021