"Distance Study Centre Budapest" is one of more than 450 projects which TEMPUS is sponsoring. Eight universities (four in Hungary) are the partners of this project. The Swiss contribution, which includes TECFA and a working group of the University of Basel, is placed under the aegis of the Swiss Federal Office for Education and Science. The aim of the project is to develop open and distance teaching at university level in Hungary. Note that there are only four TEMPUS-projects supported by non EC-countries.
The general goal of the contribution of TECFA is to formalize
methodologies for developing distance learning systems and for
producing the related courses and tools. Concretely, TECFA analyses
the techniques of instructional design used by the two main partners
of the Distance Study Center Budapest, the Fern Universitaet Hagen
(Germany) the the Open University Heerlen (Holland). Based on this
experience, TECFA is developing a course and related materials for the
tutors of the Distance Study Center Budapest in order to mediatize the
subjects of study in distance learning. In the medium term, this would
allow imported courseware to be better adapted to the hungarian
context.
For more information, call or write for
Dr. Daniel Peraya
(or Claus Haessig), email: Peraya@sun2.unige.ch