Virtual Education Readiness Semester - Adaptive Toolbox for an International Learning Experience

VERSATILE has four key objectives: 1) to create viable alternatives to physical student mobility during the pandemic, 2) beyond the pandemic to enable higher education institutions to offer new internationalisation-at-home possibilities to students who traditionally face mobility barriers, 3) to aid educators in developing their online teaching skills, and 4) to provide new ways in which educators can internationally exchange knowledge and methods.

The Covid-19 pandemic has presented higher education institutions with the challenges of suddenly having to switch to online and hybrid teaching and dealing with the collapse of physical student and teaching mobility. To aid them in mastering these challenges, VERSATILE creates the necessary building blocks for a collaborative online semester abroad in the form of a guide to online teaching methods, a model curriculum of team-taught modules in the social sciences and guidelines for an administrative infrastructure. It enables deeper collaboration between the project partners and provides other higher education institutions with guidelines to develop online collaborative learning and teaching environments.