Lemmens The Virtual Challenge to International Cooperation in Higher Education Bernd Wächter (ed.) Aca papers on International Cooperation in Education The V irtual Challenge to International Cooperation in Higher Education

Bernd Wächter (ed.)
THE VIRTUAL CHALLENGE
TO INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
IN HIGHER EDUCATION
A Project of the
Academic Cooperation Association

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The Virtual Challenge to International Cooperation in Higher Education – 
A Project of the Academic Cooperation Association/ed. Bernd Wächter –
Bonn: Lemmens Verlags- & Mediengesellschaft, 2002
(ACA Papers on International Cooperation in Education) 
ISBN 3-932306-40-6
NE: ACA Papers
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Contents
Bernd Wächter
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
7
Peter Scott
Physical versus virtual mobility:
A paradigm change in international cooperation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
17
Marijk van der Wende
The possibilities and limits of virtual mobility
in international cooperation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
27
Ulrich Grothus
A public policy approach to international mobility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
41
Dorothy Davis
Virtual mobility and Australia’s market-driven approach . . . . . . . . . . . . 
45
Ruben C. Umaly
Virtual education and physical mobility: The Asia-Pacific experience . . 
49
Peggy Blumenthal
Virtual and physical mobility: A view from the US . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
57
Asta Thoroddsen
Nursing and IT: A Nordplus network.
International collaboration through net-based distance education . . . . 
67
Sølvi Lillejord
Productive learning cultures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
73
Marja Karjalainen
Virtual education and mobility: A view of the European Commission . . 
81
Knut Olav Aslaksen
Imagine global U – European Union and international initiatives as an 
incentive for international virtual education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
89
Robin Middlehurst
Quality assurance and accreditation for virtual education:
A discussion of models and needs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
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Tapio Varis
Towards learning in the virtual university . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
111
What is ACA? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
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Bernd Wächter
Director, Academic Cooperation Association
Brussels, Belgium