University Duisburg-Essen - UDE (Germany)

URL: http://www.uni-essen.de/

The University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) is located in the middle of a region with the largest number of educational institutions per square kilometer in Europe. About 30,000 students are enrolled at the university; with its 3,400 academic and non-academic staff, it is one of the most important employers in the Ruhr region. The university is one of the largest in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The broad spectrum covered by teaching and research at UDE stretches from the departments devoted to the humanities, social sciences and economic sciences at the one end to the engineering and science departments and medical school at the other, with the highly regarded design departments somewhere in the middle.

The Department Information Systems for Production and Operations Management of the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) hosts an interdisciplinary research team and covers all aspects of application-orientated information systems. The department covers the industrial sector as well as information and communication systems and corresponding concepts for the service sector. Within the scope of its activities the focus lies primarily on quality management and standardisation of e-learning. By both empirical and analytical research, it has developed generic quality approaches, addressing needs of all actors in learning processes. Finally, UDE performs extensive research on standardization on multiple levels: Quality Management/Quality Development in E-Learning, as well as Conception, Realisation, Standardisation and Evaluation in E-Learning. The results are directly transferred to national (DIN e.V.) and international standards bodies (IEEE, ISO/IEC JTC1 SC36, CEN/ISSS WS Learning Technologies).

UDE will contribute to the study of educational methods and the design of the educational scenarios in a supportive role; will be mainly involved in the quality assurance & pilot evaluation of the project results (WP6 leader); will study existing quality processes and criteria, identifying the ones to be used for Organic.Edunet; will design, specify and coordinate the pilot evaluation trials, collecting and reporting results after their completion; and will build upon the Organic.Edunet quality approach in order to provide recommendations about a potential Quality Certification Mark for OA and Agroecology educational programs.

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