SEVAQ+ events in Valencia

The EDEN 2010 Annual Conference in Valencia included not only a SEVAQ+ workshop on the Friday afternoon but also a Stakeholder Reception where delegates gathered to learn about and discuss the project over a relaxing and tasty lunch. Both events were successful both in terms of size of their audiences and the quality of content.

The first real-time testing of the tool by the 20 enthusiastic participants of the workshop went swiftly without any technical difficulties and resulted in the recruitment of about three hundred additional testers.

Call for online testers

So, the revised, extended and improved SEVAQ+ tool was successfully  launched in Valencia! This 90-minute face to face pilot session marks the first milestone in the long process of involving a total of up to 5000 testers to ensure the tool is perfectly adapted to a variety of teaching and learning contexts. We look forward to welcoming you to this fast-growing group of SEVAQ+ testers!

Between June and November 2010, the SEVAQ+ team are organising an extensive European-wide user survey to gather feedback in order to ensure that the tool best meets the needs of both Higher Education and Vocational Education and Training.

We will be offering a series of SEVAQ+ initiation seminars which will provide you with the practical and theoretical background necessary to design your own self-evaluation questionnaires and launch the user survey. A SEVAQ+ representative will accompany you throughout the process. Join the growing community of SEVAQ+ testers!

Online communities kicking off

The online discussions are kicking off on several portals. During the EDEN Annual Conference SEVAQ+ communities were launched on two of the most popular platforms, LinkedIn and Facebook as well as in the dedicated HEXTLEARN online community.

SEVAQ+ events for your autumn diary

While the online communities ensure a teady background and a costant online collaboration facility, face to face events are also being organised to introduce newcomers to the tool and its potential ays of tailored usage.

The EFQUEL Innovation Forum ’s subtitle is “Opening Education: Inclusion, Innovation, Excellence”. The intention is to establish a link between organisational and personal learning. The SEVAQ+ project will run a pre-conference workshop on September 8th on “Self-Evaluation as vehicle for innovation, excellence and organisational learning”. This pre-conference workshop is offered cost free and will include an extensive hands-on session in which participants will have the opportunity to experiment with the SEVAQ+ tool.  

The SEVAQ+ workshop in Milan will be held in Italian in the framework of the Seventh National SIe-L conference . If you are interested in further details, please contact the local organisers by e-mailing Lorenza Leita at lorenza.leita@polimi.it.

The 6th EDEN Research Workshop is entitled “User Generated Content Assessment in Learning: Enhancing Transparency and Quality of Peer Production”. Within the conference programme, SEVAQ+ is co-organising a joint workshop with the HEXTLEARN and REVIVE projects, confronting the three projects’ approaches to quality and engaging participants in discussion around potential synergies and fundamental differences.

Meet the person behind the username

The SEVAQ+ consortium has a very strong intention to remain in every user’s eyes a group of dedicated flesh and blood individuals. In every newsletter, a core partner will introduce themselves and their research interest as well as their tasks within the project. In this newsletter you can meet Ildikó Mázár, our friend and colleague from EDEN, the European Distance and E-Learning Network.

Graduated in Chemical Engineering with the specialisation in food technology, Ildiko has clearly come a long way from her degree. As a university student, in 1999 she was founder and first president of the Committee of International Student Relations at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. She was also involved in some activities of the European Student Union (ESU back in the late 90s was called ESIB). She started working part time for EDEN in 1998 as a student, and signed her full time contract as a Project Manager after her graduation in 2002. Since then Ildikó has coordinated over 30 EU co-funded projects that EDEN was/is involved with.

In the SEVAQ+ project, Ildikó – on behalf of EDEN, the largest and most comprehensive European association in the field of open, flexible, distance and e-learning – is leading the dissemination workpackage.

Keep in touch and help to extend the network

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Contact:

Deborah Arnold, SEVAQ+ coordinator
Deborah.Arnold@univ-nancy2.fr

www.sevaq.euSEVAQ+

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This communication reflects the view only the auhor, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.