IT University West: Difference between revisions

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It-vest, networking universities, is an educational and scientific network between three university institutions in the western part of Denmark:

University of Southern Denmark

Aalborg University and

Aarhus University.

Background

It-vest was formed in response to public and private enterprises in Denmark claiming and forecasting a severe lack of qualified IT employees with university degrees. Fewer high school students were considering enrolling in IT programs as they considered IT a tool, not a profession. At the same time other graduates - especially from the Humanities - found it difficult to find jobs in private companies.

In 1999, the Danish government established and financed the network to strengthen the IT courses and research developed by the participating universities. The primary goal of it-vest is to develop and market educational programs. It-vest has a board consisting of deans from the participating universities and representatives from the ICT industry.

Activities

It-vest particularly focuses on the development and marketing of IT educations as well as other IT activities at the three universities. Furthermore, it-vest supports nationwide activities, promoting IT educations and the development of IT in general.

The activities of it-vest are among others:

Initiating the development and support of new IT education programs.

Branding tertiary IT educations in the western part of Denmark.

Increasing the number of IT graduates in Denmark.

Reinforcing the cooperation between existing educational and scientific settings.

Establishing cooperation between the universities and the corporate world regarding courses and research within IT.

Initiating the application of IT in teaching.

For further information, please visit the web site: http://www.it-vest.dk

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-It-vest, networking universities, is an educational and scientific network between four university institutions in the Western part of Denmark:
+[http://www.it-vest.dk It-vest, networking universities,] is an educational and scientific network between three university institutions in the western part of Denmark:
-    University of Southern Denmark ([http://www.sdu.dk])
+''University of Southern Denmark''
-    Aalborg University ([http://www.aau.dk])
-    Aarhus University ([http://www.au.dk])
-    Aarhus School of Business, Aarhus University ([http://www.asb.dk])
+''Aalborg University'' and
-IT University West is an educational network between the four university institutions in the Western part of Denmark; [http://www.hha.dk/ Aarhus School of Business], [http://www.sdu.dk/ University of Southern Denmark], [http://www.auc.dk/ Aalborg University] and [http://www.au.dk/ Aarhus University]. It was established in 1999 and offers flexible masters within the IT field.
+''Aarhus University''.
-The IT University West’s main office is in Århus V (Aarhus), [[Denmark]]. Other campuses or related HEIs are located in Odense, Aalborg, ...
-The university had [http://www.it-vest.dk/it-vest/ITV_tal.shtml 687] students (in 2005).
+'''Background'''
-IT University West offers 23 degree programmes in IT, including a series of full-time and part-time Master of Science Information Technology degrees (with or without a research component) a two part-time Graduate Diploma degrees.It is also possible to follow a single / ''Enkeltfag'' course under Open Education, with which you can choose to only study and take an examination of one single course or module.
+It-vest was formed in response to public and private enterprises in Denmark claiming and forecasting a severe lack of qualified IT employees with university degrees. Fewer high school students were considering enrolling in IT programs as they considered IT a tool, not a profession. At the same time other graduates - especially from the Humanities - found it difficult to find jobs in private companies.
-Students also have online access to interactive drill modules and various study-related tools such as ''Swim'' and ''Studiemetroen'' via the ''[http://www.it-vest.dk/studerende/studie_infokompetence.shtml Study and information competence (DK)]''.
+In 1999, the Danish government established and financed the network to strengthen the IT courses and research developed by the participating universities. The primary goal of it-vest is to develop and market educational programs. It-vest has a board consisting of deans from the participating universities and representatives from the ICT industry.
-With the intention of making continuing education within the IT-area and e-learning accessible to a bigger target group, IT University West is responsible for the FlexNet project "[http://www.learningnet.dk/ Learningnet.dk (DK)]" and the book  "[http://www.learningnet.dk/Ny%20bog%20om%20e-learning/index.html Flexibel learning and teaching (DK)]". With Learningnet.dk IT-west disseminates its resources and experience on e-learning, specifically designed for educators and developers of higher education.
-Its ''[http://www.it-vest.dk/intranet/index.shtml intranet]'' lists design manual, resources and information about IT West University and the [http://www.it-vest.dk/intranet/studievejledning.shtml Student network (DK)].
+'''Activities'''
-IT University West is also involved in "[http://www.mil.aau.dk Master in ICT and Learning (MIL)]", a web based 2-year part-time master that is offered by [http://www.auu.dk/ Aalborg University] in cooperation with [http://www.au.dk/ Aarhus University], [http://www.cbs.dk/ Copenhagen Business School], [http://www.dpu.dk/ DPU (School of Education - University of Aarhus)] and [http://www.ruc.dk/ Roskilde University]. It uses [http://www.firstclass.com/ FirstClass] as its VLE. Relevant documents: [http://www.mil.aau.dk/index.php?id=517&L=0 Papers that exemplify the literature in the MIL Curriculum].
+It-vest particularly focuses on the development and marketing of IT educations as well as other IT activities at the three universities. Furthermore, it-vest supports nationwide activities, promoting IT educations and the development of IT in general.
-The university’s web site is at http://www.it-vest.dk (Its English site can be found at http://www.it-vest.dk/en
+The activities of it-vest are among others:
+Initiating the development and support of new IT education programs.
+Branding tertiary IT educations in the western part of Denmark.
+Increasing the number of IT graduates in Denmark.
+Reinforcing the cooperation between existing educational and scientific settings.
+Establishing cooperation between the universities and the corporate world regarding courses and research within IT.
+Initiating the application of IT in teaching.
+For further information, please visit the web site: http://www.it-vest.dk
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