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At the 2022 AIEA Annual Conference, UAS7 had the pleasure to share their first year Virtual Academy experiences on a panel entitled “Taking Virtual to the Next Level”, jointly with Ben Brisch, Director of the DAAD North America Office, Ann-Kristin Matthe, Head of Section Digitalisation for Internationalisation at DAAD Germany, and Annette Richie, Director of Global Academic Programs at our partner University at Albany.

Balancing synochronous and asynchronous teaching; selecting the right technology tool and preparing students for international collaboration – these were just some of the many topics which were covered in the first round of the UAS7 Virtual Academy’s Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) coaching sessions held in early January 2021.

On December 2nd 2020, the UAS7 Virtual Academy held its inaugural kick-off event. Project stakeholders from both the US and Germany came together virtually to learn more about the plans for the UAS7 Virtual Academy and get to know one another. Almost 50 faculty, project coordinators, e-learning and digitalization specialists as well as senior university members joined the event.

Wegen der Corona-Pandemie läuft der Hochschulbetrieb nicht nur in Deutschland überwiegend virtuell, Hochschulen haben ihre digitalen Lehr- und Lernangebote signifikant ausgebaut. Dieser Digitalisierungsschub soll auch in internationalen Hochschulkooperationen verankert werden. Dafür fördert der Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst (DAAD) das Verbundprojekt „UAS7 Virtual Academy“ unter Federführung der Hochschule Bremen mit 250.000 Euro.