COWEB is a joint project arranged in a work plan of well-defined activities which are appropriately allocated in 5 work packages.
WP 2
State-of-the-Art virtual collaborative practices in EU partners and benchmarking of similar practices to WB HEIs
This work package is led by International Burch University and is planned to be implemented through the M1-M9 period. To start research on virtual collaborative initiatives and practices in the EU and report on benchmarking will be performed following an International Forum on innovative virtual teaching and learning pedagogies. These activities will serve to escalate a scientific basis for a state-of-the-art intervention and account for systematic procedure and high-quality outcomes. Quantitative and qualitative methods through desk research, stakeholder interviews and focus groups, surveys to students, teachers and learning community, will be implemented to gather first-hand experiences about virtual collaboration in Western Balkans and to enable building a feasible and effective action plan for the project activities. A significant output of this work package is the finalization and publication of a Cross-country Report on Virtual Collaborative teaching and learning practices in the Western Balkans