E-Learning

eLearning means any kind of computer-supported technology in context with a learning process. It can also be defined as access to teaching material via computer, as access to a virtual learning room, where contacts can be kept among students or between students and teachers.

eLearning means also flexibility for students, as they can learn whenever they want – be it during traditional working hours or long after midnight. This flexibility meets the modern demands of professional work which often has to be done at an irregular pace and at different locations – be it in the office, at home, at university, on holidays, or on a business trip etc. It also means teaching across political or economic boundaries: Internet and e-mail make it easy and affordable to obtain complicated packages of know-how, which otherwise would be expensive, having to be “picked up” far away. This makes eLearning an environmentally friendly method, as neither fuel for transport nor paper for paper and hardcopies can be saved.

Nehemia University puts an accent on eLearning. We will introduce a virtual learning room where you may get in contact with other students or with your teachers, and where resource material will be available for download. This will also serve the students’ interdisciplinary capacities, as a multitude of material from other fields and disciplines will be easily available.

 

Blended Learning

This is another term you might have heard or read with Nehemia University programmes. Blended learning means to work with a “blend”, with a mix (like in “blended tea” or “blended whisky”!) of various learning methods. For example, for our Master in European Studies we work with distance teaching (with computer-sent texts and homework forms, which have to be filled out and sent back via computer) and presence courses, that is “normal” classroom work”.

This is particularly important if you have an international faculty (it would be very difficult to bring so many excellent teachers to live permanently in Pogradec!) and/or students from different countries. It is also interesting for all courses with a true European and international content. It is a great way to connect students, even if they are living far apart.

 

Phone and video via internet

The third element is between distance training and presence courses: you will be able to meet some of your lecturers on Skype (which means you can telephone without charges from your computer); you would only need a microphone/a headset. See also www.skype.com.

 

Flexibility

Nehemia University is very flexible and we have a lot of intellectual curiosity for these solutions. Please bear in mind that with our international faculties, where lots of experience comes together, we are in an excellent position to discuss these subjects permanently – and also to implement solutions. However, these are also economic decisions, which therefore may take a certain time. And we always have an open ear for the proposals of the students!