Mobi-Blog - The European Weblog platform for mobile students

1 October 2007 – 30 September 2009

Summary

The Mobi-Blog project developed a weblog service for European mobile students, which enables students to tell their story and read about others’ experiences during their exchange programme. The weblog contains all aspects of mobile students, like motivation, social issues, communication and cultural issues, organisational and administrative problems.
Mobi-Blog produced:

• A self-sustaining web-based multi-lingual European service for mobile students, which supports a growing number of weblogs about the experience of studying abroad, with positive examples of overcoming motivational, social and cultural barriers to mobility;
  ▪ An online guide for students which outlines their real life experiences of barriers to mobility and how they got around them, linked to the compelling first-person testimony in the blogs; A community network of universities in Europe using the product developed within their mobile studies information services.
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By producing these outputs Mobi-Blog envisaged to increase students’ motivation for doing mobile studies in Europe, to provide structured information for actors in higher education, to raise awareness about the topic, and to provide a model for an adequate use of weblogs and peer-to-peer software in general for learning and education.

Project partners:
Centro de Enseñanzas Virtuales (CEVUG), University of Granada (ES) Institute for Innovation in Learning (FIM-NewLearning), Friedrich-Alexander- University Erlangen-Nuremberg (DE), SCIENTER España (ES), Amitié (IT), Lambrakis Foundation (GR), IPAK Institute for Symbolic Analysis and Development of Information Technologies (SI), Lifelong Learning Institute Dipoli, Helsinki University of Technology (FI), School of Systems Engineering, University of Reading (UK), Romanian Institute for Adult Education (RO)

Project website: http://mobi-blog.eu

Contact details: Thomas Fischer, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Institute for Innovation in Learning

Supported by the European Commission under the Lifelong Learning Programme – ERASMUS – Multilateral projects – Virtual Campus