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ESMU is not so much a system for benchmarking e-learning but an exercise which the [[European Centre for Strategic Management of Universities]] carries out from time to time. It is not clear whether there is any consistency of criteria between iterations of the benchmarking - in the last round [[E-xcellence]] was used as the base system. Whether it is now policy for ESMU to use E-xcellence is not clear.
''ESMU'', the '''European Centre for Strategic Management of Universities''' was created in 1986 as an international think tank non profit association to promote the strategic management of European universities. By offering management development programmes, benchmarking exercises and a learning environment on good management practices,  ESMU brings valuable support to European universities striving to further their strategic developments.


Its web site is at http://www.esmu.be/


== Latest round of ESMU benchmarking e-learning ==
== Activities ==


A benchmarking exercise on e-learning was launched in the spring of 2009. The exercise was initiated by the [[University of Southern Denmark]] (SDU) and gathered a group of nine European universities. The project started in April 2009 and was planned to end in December 2009.
Over the years ESMU has developed a portfolio of activities to further promote strategic management practices in higher education through networks, projects, benchmarking exercises, seminars and training programme.


The benchmarking exercise was co-organised by ESMU and [[European Association of Distance Teaching Universities]] (EADTU). It combined ESMU's collaborative benchmarking approach (benchmarking through a comparative exercise of good practices between universities) and EADTU's more individually-oriented approach.
Early 1999, ESMU launched a European Benchmarking programme on university management. Benchmarking is a self-improvement tool for organisations. It allows them to compare themselves with others, identify comparative strengths and weaknesses, and learn how to improve. Benchmarking finds and adopt good practices that go beyond the mere comparison of data.  


EADTU's [[E-xcellence]] online tool, consisting of a set of 33 e-learning benchmarks, was used as a starting point to the benchmarking exercise, but we understand that it was modified.
See [[ESMU Benchmarking in European Higher Education]]
 
The aim of the benchmarking project was to identify good practices on e-learning by learning from other participants.
 
Participating universities were planned to be:
 
# [[University of Southern Denmark]]
# [[University of Copenhagen]]
# [[Aarhus University]]
# University of Latvia
# [[Lund University]]
# University of Kuopio
# University of Porto
# University of Bologna
# [[University of Oulu]]
 
The University of Southern Denmark hosted the online questionnaire for the benchmarking exercise (accessible only to project participants).
 
For more details see http://www.esmu.be/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=94&Itemid=94
 
 
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Latest revision as of 21:18, 7 August 2012

ESMU, the European Centre for Strategic Management of Universities was created in 1986 as an international think tank non profit association to promote the strategic management of European universities. By offering management development programmes, benchmarking exercises and a learning environment on good management practices, ESMU brings valuable support to European universities striving to further their strategic developments.

Its web site is at http://www.esmu.be/

Activities

Over the years ESMU has developed a portfolio of activities to further promote strategic management practices in higher education through networks, projects, benchmarking exercises, seminars and training programme.

Early 1999, ESMU launched a European Benchmarking programme on university management. Benchmarking is a self-improvement tool for organisations. It allows them to compare themselves with others, identify comparative strengths and weaknesses, and learn how to improve. Benchmarking finds and adopt good practices that go beyond the mere comparison of data.

See ESMU Benchmarking in European Higher Education

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