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The Modelling Advice and Support Services to Integrate Virtual Component in Higher Education (MASSIVE) was selected in 2004 under the EU Erasmus Virtual Campus programme. It was funded from 2005-2007. As noted on the project web site:

The aim of MASSIVE was to design a model of necessary support services for European traditional Universities to successfully implement the virtual component of teaching.

It focused on the following specific objectives:

  • Defining the conceptual model of virtualisation
  • Identifying and classifying good practices in the organisation of support services to the University community regarding University virtual components
  • Exploring and comparing the elements for transferability
  • Validating the approaches to develop the support services
  • Guaranteeing the wide dissemination of the practices and use of the model

The MASSIVE web site is at http://cevug.ugr.es/massive/




The REal Virtual Erasmus (REVE) was selected in 2004, and funded from 1 January 2005 until 31 December 2006 by the European Commission - DG Education & Culture under the eLearning programme.

The REVE web site is at http://reve.europace.org/


Summary

Outcomes

Outputs of MASSIVE are available at the project website http://cevug.ugr.es/massive/outputs.html.

Main outcome of the project is the Peer Review Handbook of MASSIVE project (PDF), by Joseph D. Cullen with the contributions of M. Begoña Arenas, Jeff & Denise Haywood. This document sets out proposals and procedures for carrying out the MASSIVE Peer Reviews and provides instruments and Guidelines for data gathering and analysis. It draws together and further develops strands of work that have previously been carried out within the context of the MASSIVE Peer Review process, notably the ‘Methodology Report’, the ‘Peer Review Schema’ and the ‘Peer Review Visit Questions’ developed by partners. A key purpose of this document is to integrate this accompanying work and to address some of the ‘gaps’ hitherto not covered. Against this background, one of the main objectives of developing this ‘handbook’ is to ensure adequate ‘triangulation’ of different stakeholder perspectives within each of the participating review sites, and to prevent a single ‘voice’ dominating the results of the Review. In order to achieve this, the Handbook provides for the utilisation of three different, though complementary data gathering methods: archive and documentation analysis; interviews and observation. It also proposes a three-stage process for the Peer Review, comprised of an initial ‘set-up’ phase; a subsequent phase of data gathering focused on the site visit, and a final ‘analysis and synthesis’ stage involving the production of recommendations arrived at through collaborative reflection between the MASSIVE team and the hosting institution.

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