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Tackling the new teaching and learning paradigms in education, especially at university level, CIVIS proposes an innovative approach to the design and implementation of modern educational activities. Digitally enhanced mobility - CIVIS Handbook on Virtual Mobility offers a detailed exploration of the digitally enhanced (virtual) mobility and educational technology tools that can be used in higher education. The handbook thereby aims to offer support and guidelines for those managing educational activities accompanied by virtual mobility components, whether in fully virtual learning environments or in a blended format. The handbook comprises a complex analysis of the current status and impact of virtual mobility in the educational sector, as well as a variety of distance or blended learning best practices from CIVIS member universities. The handbook envisions the transformations produced by some of the most recent developments in ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) in education and the adaptations that emerged during the pandemic context. The CIVIS Handbook on Virtual Mobility promotes various virtual mobility concepts, identifying different types of virtual mobility practices and formats, as part of the building blocks for a more complex construct, the European degree and the design pathways for connecting universities across Europe in this transformative process. The handbook continues the work and endeavours carried out by the CIVIS Work Package 7 “Teaching Excellence” team, for increasing students' mobility and innovating learning opportunities in the alliance, in a wider European educational context, offering them access to modern and innovative learning opportunities and environments, enhancing cultural exchanges, European citizenship, and active engagement in societal challenges. The handbook offers an adequate place for considering and analyzing the entire virtual mobility ecosystem and its dimensions, such as: pedagogical (course design and curriculum development), technical (tools and innovations to support content creation, course delivery, communication and interaction tools), and administrative (learning pathways, ECTS credit points guidelines, recognition principles and tools). We consider this handbook as a valuable resource for academics, experts, policymakers, stakeholders, and students, as an integrative support document for designing, managing, and delivering teaching and learning in a virtual mobility environment. Considering aspects such as modularisation (as CIVIS’ response to the European approach to micro-credentials), stackability of learning, flexible learning pathways, small units of learning that lead to larger educational components (building blocks), recognition of learning based on ECTS credit points, and a curricular framework that paves the ways for European degrees, the CIVIS Handbook on Virtual Mobility provides a practical perspective on designing and implementing innovative learning activities in the context of a European University Alliance, tackling sustainable and transformative approaches for the future of higher education., {"references":["Altbach, P.G.& Knight, J.(2007) TheInternationalization of Higher Education: motivations and realities, Journal of Studies in International Education, 11(3-4), 290- 305. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1028315307303542","Attwell, Graham. (2007). 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The Handbook on “Innovative Pedagogies: ways into the Process of Learning Transformation” provides an in-depth analysis of the approaches by which teachers are prepared to address pedagogical innovations in the classroom. It takes a look at the use of innovative pedagogies in an effective learning environment and covers topics such as online and blended learning, experimental learning, gamification and inclusive education. This handbook is ideally designed for teachers, academics and instructors interested in adopting innovative pedagogies in their teaching programmes and hopes to trigger discussion among academics from CIVIS Universities and beyond in designing and implementing authentic learning experiences., {"references":["Averill, R. M., & Major, J. (2020). What motivates higher education educators to innovate? Exploring competence, autonomy, and relatedness – and connections with wellbeing. 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The document Why micro-credentials should become educational “macro-policies” for defining the future European study programmes aims to open a substantial dialogue in the Romanian academic milieu on the adoption of the micro-credentials system, simultaneously with the strengthening of mechanisms for quality assurance. The perspective emerges both from the directions outlined in the Ministerial Bulletin of Rome, from the EHEA 2020 Conference, and from the deeper structural changes that the global pandemic crisis has generated in the academic milieu in the last year. “Flexible and open learning pathways, included in the original motivation for the Bologna Process, are important aspects of student-centered learning, and their demand is growing in our societies. In addition to comprehensive university programs, many higher education institutions offer or intend to offer smaller learning units that will enable students to develop or update their cultural, professional or transversal skills and competences at different stages of life”, underlined the above-mentioned document. In order to go further in the proposed paradigm, the specialists have argued several possible scenarios applied to the Romanian context, one in which they point out that there is a need for a solid inter-institutional collaboration in the national and European academic milieu, but also with decision-makers, in order to facilitate a legislative framework and transformations aimed at leading to curricular modernization, innovative pedagogies, recognition and certification, multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary, as well as an increased level of inter-university cooperation through common long-term strategies., {"references":["Bologna Follow-up Group. (2020). Background information on micro-credentials, BFUG meeting, Kyiv, 4-5 March 2020. Agenda Item 6 – Rome Ministerial Communiqué and Bologna Global Policy Statement. http://www.ehea.info/Upload/BFUG_HR_UA_69_6_1_Micro_Credentials.pdf","Camilleri, A. F. (2021, January 28). How will micro-credentials change the Higher Education Landscape?. In ECIU, Paving the Road for the Micro-Credentials Movement [Video] (00:58:28-01:09:31). Vimeo. https://vimeo.com/506046542","Camilleri, A. F. (2018). Micro Credentials. A (not so) new way to recognize learning [PowerPoint]. MicroHE Consortium. https://www.slideshare.net/anthonycamilleri/microcredentials-a-not-so-new-way-to-recognise-learning?from_action=save","Debiais-Sainton, V., & Karamali, A. (2020). Creating a coherent European space for research, innovation and education. Linking the ERA and EEA [PowerPoint]. European Commission. https://wgseigp.amu.edu.pl/__data/assets/pdf_file/0012/140133/200911-sefs-wg-era-ehea-eea-com-synergies-dg-rtd-dg-eac.pdf","EHEA. (2020, November 19). Rome Ministerial Communiqué. https://ehea2020rome.it/storage/uploads/5d29d1cd-4616-4dfe-a2af-29140a02ec09/BFUG_Final_Draft_Rome_Communique-link.pdf","ESU. (2020, July 27). New European Universities and the old challenges. https://www.esu-online.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Statement_-New-European-Universities-old-challenges.pdf","EUA. (2020a, September). European project MICROBOL. Micro-credentials linked to the Bologna Key Commitments. Desk research report. https://microcredentials.eu/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2020/09/MICROBOL-Desk-Research-Report.pdf","EUA [@euatweets]. (2020b, September 23). For 2030 we hope for \"#EuropeanUniversities without walls\", with institutions that work as communities of discovery & #learning; open to [Tweet]. Twitter. https://twitter.com/euatweets/status/1308688925196791809","European Commission. (2020a). Executive Summary. A European Approach to Micro-Credentials. Output of the Micro-Credentials Higher Education Consultation Group. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union. https://ec.europa.eu/education/sites/default/files/document-library-docs/european-approach-micro-credentials-higher-education-consultation-group-output-executive-summary.pdf","European Commission. (2020b). Erasmus+ Programme Guide. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union. https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/resources/documents/erasmus-programme-guide-2020_en","Gaebel, M., Zhang, T., Stoeber, H, & Morrisroe, A. (2021). Digitally Enhanced Learning and Teaching in European Higher Education Institutions. European University Association absl. https://www.eua.eu/downloads/publications/digi-he%20survey%20report.pdf","Kato, S., Galán-Muros, V., & Weko, T. (2020). The emergence of alternative credentials. https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/docserver/b741f39e-en.pdf?expires=1595933702&id=id&accname=guest&checksum=F2B3CF-8C655A25371434B58ABFD6F85C","MicroHE. (2019). Challenges and Opportunities of Micro-Credentials in Europe. Briefing Paper of the Award, Recognition, Portability and Accreditation of Micro-Credentials: an Investigation through Interviews with Key Stakeholders & Decision Makers. https://microcredentials.eu/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2019/12/WP3-Interviews-with-Key-Stakeholders-Decision-Makers-Overall-Summary-Report.pdf","Orr, D., Pupinis, M., & Kirdulytė, G. (2020). Towards a European approach to micro-credentials: a study of practices and commonalities in offering micro-credentials in European higher education. NESET report. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union. https://doi.org/10.2766/7338","Sood, I., Padron, C. L., Pirkkalainen, H., & Camilleri, A. F. (2020). D2.2 Future Impacts of Modularisation and Micro-Credentials on European Higher Education and list of validated scenarios. WP2 Scenario Building for Micro-Credentials in Europe. MicroHE Consortium. https://microcredentials.eu/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2021/01/D2.2.Future-Impacts-of-Micro-Credentialling-on-European-Higher-Education.pdf"]}

CIVIS proposal on European Label provisional criteria.&nbsp