European Virtual Exchange (EVE): Student Mobility without Moving

Universities are striving to provide a more flexible educational offering and at the same time to improve their internationalization strategy. EVE (European Virtual Exchange) is a program created by a consortium of seven European universities with the aim to offer a set of courses with mutual credit recognition to their home students, but without the need to travel to the host university, and with the possibility to combine courses from several host universities. Courses offered as part of EVE are regular undergraduate or postgraduate courses in their host university. However, they include a fully online version of the course for EVE students to take them, as well as regular synchronous encounters between teachers and students through videoconferences. Exams are created and evaluated by the host institution, but students take them in a face-to-face traditional way, with supervision by staff from the students’ home institution. This paper presents the experience of offering and teaching a course on Data Structures with Java by Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) as part of the EVE program. This course has been part of EVE for two consecutive academic years with 24 students overall. The course deploys its main content in a local instance of the Open edX platform, bringing together regular UC3M students who take the face-to-face version of the course but get the virtual version as extra support,

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