The Establishment of the LEFIS virtual campus: step by step

Fernando Galindo, University of Zaragoza, Spain

The LEFIS Virtual Campus Design18th- 19th May 2007

Albarracín

Summary

The context Step 1.- The experience with Administracion

Electronica Step 2.- The books: the LEFIS Serie, and the

common infrastructure Step 3.- The collaboration: the joint courses Step 4.- The joint Diploms Step 5.- Erasmus programme

The LEFIS context

From Europa

Virtual campus partners

AR LA PLATA.- Spanish BR SANTA CATARINA.-

Portuguese DE UNIMUENSTER.- German ES ULL.- Spanish ES UNIZAR.- Spanish FI ULAPLAND.- Finnish FI UWASA.- Finnish LT MRUNI.- Lithuanian PL UMK.- Polish PT IPBEJA .- Portuguese TR ISIKUN.- Turkish. UK QUEENS.- English OPEN TO NEW INTERESTED PARTNERS

Step 1.- The experience, this year

Spanish students have in “Administracion electronica” teachers from Spain, Brasil and Argentina during 2006-2007: from February until June

The same begins with brasilean and argentinian students during 2007: from June until December

Blended system Joint examinations Government support (Brasilean, Argentinan and

Spanish) A comment: it is possible to made the same experience during

2007-2008 with the resources of the Erasmus programme (mobility of teachers and students) in Europa for joint experiences with joint topics: grade and postgraduate degrees

Step 3.- The books: the LEFIS Serie, and the common infrastructure

English book, published in JILT (Journal of Information and Law Technology)

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/elj/jilt/2005_2-3/ Spanish Book

It is in the LEFIS Web page, only for owners of the LEFIS private-public key Privacy, first book of the LEFIS Serie in preparation (deadline 15th June)

It will be included also in the LEFIS Web page: Access by public key I think in another book on e learning in the Faculties of Law: some proposals

(I will send guidelines and dealine 15th June) Joint courses in the LEFIS Web: A page for the LEFIS Virtual campus (in

outcomes) Participants from different Universities, teachers and students

Teachers and students need to use the LEFIS public-private key Instructions to generate and obtain the key

https://pki.lefis.org/ Meeting in Jaca, end July 2007: LEFIS reviewers, E Government and digital

inclusion: review procedures and new book

Step 3.- The collaboration: the joint courses

The professors as collaborators of the teaching in concrete authorized courses by the respective University

Graduate and postgraduate levelOld courses, firstNew courses, later

Assesment made also by the collaborating professors

Step 4.- The joint Diploms

Last objective At least at graduate level

From academic course 2007-2008 Blended modality Diploms for the matriculated student in ordinary lectures, acknowledged by the

own University Initialy by the signatures of the teachers Later by the own University organization

Postgraduate level also From academic course 2008-2009:

I will take the initiative from our old Master in Computers and Law: the application must be made by end January 2008

My proposal to my University is to made a Master (60 credits, blended and on line modality)) promoted by LEFIS

The partners will be all the interested LEFIS partners, specially the participants in the LEFIS Virtual Campus application

The students ought pay the real cost of the inmatriculation in the Master The price will be adequate to the requirements of every University As soon as possible we shall require the neccesary documents from the partners

Universities to agree on the basic common rules related with title, contents and organizative question

Step 5.- Erasmus programme

The interchange of teachers and students is possible in Europa and America by Erasmus programme and another new programmes: Mexico ALFA Meeting 22 Erasmus students this year in the Faculty of Law

of Zaragoza, coming from the LEFIS Universities partners

If the application to the virtual campus is sucessful the procedure will be improved with support to the formation of new teachers and organization and difussion meetings, but this is an added