EDUCATION NETWORK WINFOLine

Project Description

The four Information Systems chairs of the universities of Göttingen, Kassel, Leipzig, and Saarbrücken aim to establish a cross-university and cross-state educational network in the German higher education landscape.

The educational network focuses on internet-based education and training in the field of information systems. To this end, an educational product pool is created for the discipline of information systems. The educational products can range from individual multimedia learning units to entire online courses.

To expand the educational product pool, new educational products will be developed in collaboration with other departments, and existing online courses will be acquired to enhance the pool.

A participant in the educational network can be both a provider and a user. The WINFOLine educational network increases the range of educational offerings available to other providers in terms of both breadth and depth.

A key offering of the educational network will be a virtual advanced study program in information systems. This advanced program is tailored to the needs of working professionals and university graduates.

The WINFOLine educational network aims to achieve the following main objectives with the proposed project:

• Development of a sustainable concept for the WINFOLine educational network


• Establishment of an educational product pool for configuring educational offerings


• Building and establishing the WINFOLine educational network


• Development of guidelines for the educational products of the WINFOLine network


• Further development of WINFOLine educational products


• Provision of a teaching and learning platform


• Knowledge transfer and public relations

The existing WINFOLine teaching cooperation is to be expanded into an educational network in the field of German-language information systems. The sustainability goal is an orthogonal objective that plays a crucial role in all subsequent goals described. All success-critical factors that endanger sustainability must therefore be identified and analyzed. The results of these analyses must be explicitly considered in the individual sub-concepts. To ensure the sustainability of the approach, the educational network must be seamlessly integrated into existing and future multimedia strategies of universities. An important goal of the WINFOLine educational network is to build an educational product pool that enables the configuration of different educational offerings.



This exchange ring has been practiced since 1998. It originated from the WINFOLine project funded by the Bertelsmann Foundation and the Heinz Nixdorf Foundation, which was further supported by the BMBF as the WINFOLine educational network.

Project Partners

• University of Kassel, Department of Information Systems (Prof. Dr. J.-M. Leimeister)


• Institute for Information Systems at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) (Prof. Dr. Peter Loos)


• Technical University of Darmstadt, Department of Information Systems (Prof. Dr. Buxmann)

Sponsors

• Predecessor project "WINFOLine Project Academy": Bertelsmann Foundation and Heinz Nixdorf Foundation from 1997 to 1999


• BMBF (Federal Ministry of Education and Research) (Funding program "New Media in Education")


• Funding period: June 2001 to December 2003