The main objective of the programme is for participating teachers to learn this methodology and apply virtual mobility to their classrooms throughout the academic years 2023-2024 and 2024-2025.

The specific objectives include the following aspects:

1. To design, organise and effectively incorporate virtual mobility into their university teaching;
2. To define a programme and timetable for virtual mobility with the academic partner assigned to them;
3. To coordinate the group and academic work in the university classroom through virtual mobility;
4. To present the results of the virtual mobility and their evaluation;
5. To identify and solve the main problems that arise in virtual mobility.

1. Characteristics of the virtual mobility methodology:

• What is virtual mobility methodology.
• Advantages of the virtual mobility methodology:
– Teamwork and interculturality.
– “Administrative” convenience.
• How to articulate teaching work teams: institutional strategy and aspects to take into account.

2. Design of the virtual mobility module:

• Learning outcomes.
• Guidelines for the building of working teams (students).
• Design of virtual mobility module: synchronous and asynchronous activities:
– Ice-breaker activity.
– Collaborative activity: types of collaborative strategies.

3. Evaluation and self-evaluation:

• What is evaluation.
• When to evaluate.
• The signature of the evaluation.

The training course will be held in Spanish.

The academic partners may carry out the virtual mobility in the classroom in Spanish, English or the language they choose by mutual agreement.

Duration of the training: 10 hours (8 teaching hours and 2 practical hours).

Duration of sessions: two hours per week concentrated in one day over five weeks.

Implementation:

• The training will start on 17 October 2023 and will end on 14 November 2023.
• The virtual mobility will be carried out from November 2023 to February 2025.

Teachers who pass the evaluation may obtain a diploma of participation in the training and teaching innovation course.

Two awards with a real or in-kind value of 500 euros gross as well as a special recognition will be given to those virtual mobility projects that have met the quality and execution levels established by the teaching body of the course.

The training of the course will be delivered online in synchronous mode.

The training sessions of the course will take place in a virtual classroom that CGU will create on its Composnet platform, which integrates the BigBlueButton tool.

The course is aimed at teachers from member universities of the CGU.

It is also open to teachers from universities associated with the Organisation of Ibero-American States (OEI).

A total of 60 places are established for university teachers in order to form a maximum of 30 academic partners.

Step 3

Acceptance of participation

The selected teachers will be contacted in the first two weeks of October 2023 and will have a period of five calendar days to expressly accept participation.

• Launch of the call: July 2023.
• Deadline for applications: 10 September 2023.
• Selection of applications and pairings: second half of September 2023.
• Publication of selection and acceptance of participation: first half of October 2023.
• Course implementation and evaluation:
  – Tuesday, 17 October 2023, from 4.30 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. (UCT+2).
  – Tuesday, 24 October 2023, from 4.30 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. (UCT+2).
  – Tuesday, 31 October 2023, from 4.30 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. (UCT+1).
  – Tuesday, 7 November 2023, from 4.30 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. (UCT+1).
  – Tuesday, 14 November 2023, from 4.30 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. (UCT+1).
• Realisation of virtual mobility: from November 2023 to February 2025.