ORCHESTRATING INTERDEPENDENCE IN A MULTINATIONAL VIRTUAL LEARNING COMMUNITY

摘要

The background context for this paper is the Masters programme in Multimedia Education and Consultancy that was developed from the TRIPLE M Advanced Curriculum Development (CDA) Project supported by the European Commission under the SOCRATES programme (1998-2001). The programme has involved an active partnership between Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmegen in the Netherlands, the University of Oulu in Finland and Sheffield Hallam University in the UK. The experience of tutors and students involved in the first unit of the programme Open and Flexible Learning Environments (OFLE) is outlined in Owen, Hudson and Tervola (2001). In this paper we draw on that experience but focus on the second unit of the programme Digital Media Applications (DMA) that took place during the second semester of 2000-01. This unit involved ten students working together based at two local study centres in Nijmegen and Sheffield.