Web University

<body> <h1>What is Web University?</h1> <p>Web University is as a <b>virtual university</b>, which offers <b>flexible learning</b> and working possibilities for <b>students </b>and<b> staffs of universities </b>and<b> research organizations</b> by using a combination of World Wide Web (WWW), videoconferencing, e-mail and other methods. The Web University gives students and researchers an opportunity to follow top class <b>particle physics</b> and <b>computing lectures.</b> The Web University is <b>open to all universities</b> and <b>research organizations </b>of the world and is ready to offer them a flexible distance learning programme.</p> <p>Web University has concentrated on <b>transferring</b> the latest results of high energy <b>physics </b>directly <b>to partner universities and research organizations</b>. Physic researchers can update their knowledge by participating to CERN international seminars from their own workstations. The teaching is interactive and it is in principle targeted to <b>postgraduate students</b>, but some courses in physics and information technology have also been offered to <b>undergraduate students.</b></p> <p>Web University is <b>open to all universities and research organizations of the world.</b> So far the <b>Finnish </b>distance students originate from the <a HREF="http://www.helsinki.fi" TARGET="_top">University of Helsinki, </a><a HREF="http://www.hut.fi" TARGET="_top">Helsinki University of Technology</a>, the <a HREF="http://www.jyu.fi" TARGET="_top">University of Jyväskylä</a>, <a HREF="http://www.tut.fi" TARGET="_top">Tampere University of Technology,</a> the <a HREF="http://www.oulu.fi" TARGET="_top">University of Oulu</a> , <a HREF="http://www.otol.fi" TARGET="_top">Oulu Institute of Technology</a> and the <a HREF="http://www.pori.tut.fi/" TARGET="_top">Pori School of Technology and Economics</a>. In addition, several universities from other countries have joined the transmissions during the spring 1998, the <a HREF="http://www.utwente.nl/uk/" TARGET="_top">University of Twente</a> in <b>Holland</b>, the <a HREF="http://www.uniroma2.it" TARGET="_top">University of Rome 2</a> "Tor Vergata" in <b>Italy </b>and the <a HREF="http://www.stuba.sk/index_en.html" TARGET="_top">Slovak University of Technology </a>in <b>Slovakia</b>.</p> <p>Students can browse through <a HREF="programme/programme98.html">CERN's training programmes</a> to find interesting lectures, which they want to <b>add to their studies</b>. Students create their study plans together with their professors and the professors agree how students will demonstrate their skills. Programmes available for students in Web University<b> are </b>accepted to be <b>included</b> in the <b>degree</b> studies in a university.</p> <p>Universities have selected lectures from the <a HREF="http://www.cern.ch/Training/ACAD/acad0_E.html">CERN Academic Training Programme (ATP)</a> and <a HREF="http://www.cern.ch/CERN/Announcements/Colloquia/1998/">CERN Colloquium Seminars</a>. Also other seminars may be included in transmissions, in case the clients so desire. CERN has transmitted the lectures using <b>real-time videoconferencing </b>tools from CERN to Finnish universities via European networks. The control of the learned information can happen, for example, by asking the student to hold a virtual seminar.</p> <p>In 1997-98 WU has collaborated with <a HREF="http://matwww.ee.tut.fi/kamu/" TARGET="_top">the Finnish Distance Learning in Multimedia Network project (ETÄKAMU) </a>and now it is a pilot of the <a href="http://matwww.ee.tut.fi/ao/" TARGET="_top">Finnish Open Learning Environment project</a> (OLE) 1999-2002. The Web University is <b>funded by </b>the following companies in Finland: <a HREF="http://www.tekes.fi" TARGET="_top">National Technology Agency</a> (Tekes), <a HREF="http://www.rc.hpy.fi" TARGET="_top">HPY</a> / <a HREF="http://195.236.254.10/inenglish/" TARGET="_top">Finnet Group</a>, <a HREF="http://www.csc.fi/english" TARGET="_top">Center for Scientific Computing (CSC) </a>and <a HREF="http://www.hip.fi" TARGET="_top">Helsinki Institute of Physics </a>(HIP).</p> </body>