I N F O R MAT I O N B R O C H U R E
LEARNING MADE SIMPLE!DIGITAL CAMPUS FOR CONTINUOUS EDUCATION
S U M M A R Y O F B E N E F I T S T H E D I G I T A L C A M P U S F O R C O N T I N U O U S E D U C A T I O N
WORKPLACE ORIENTED CONTINUOUS EDUCATION
FLEXIBILIT Y MOTIVATION
MORE INTENSE CUSTOMER AND STUDENT SUPPORT
MEDIAL PREPARATIONOF CONTENT
IMPROVEMENT OF IAGNOSTIC OPTIONS
PROMOTION OF PERSONAL SKILLS
ACTUALIT Y NATIONWIDE OFFERS
STUDY GROUPSPARTICIPATION EVENWITH HANDICAPS
NO DIGITAL SEPARATION OF THE SOCIET Y
ADJUSTMENT TO A CHANGED COMMUNICATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
SUPPORT OF THE BOLOGNA PROCESS
The Digital Campus for Continuous
Education is a central infrastructure for
technical supported teaching and
learning scenarios, which is reliable,
cross institutional, compliant with
data protection and legally secured.
Additionally it offers opportunities
for a common use as well as an
exchange of digital contents between
institutions. It is operated by vimotion
GmbH and promoted by the state of
Baden-Württemberg within the
„Alliance for Lifelong Learning“.
INDIVIDUALIZATION OF EDUCATIONAL PROCESSES
HANDLING OF HIGH COMPLEXIT Y
OFFERS INNICHE TOPICS
IMPROVEMENT OF INTEGRATION
Technically supported teaching and learning scenarios enable
to individualize educational processes:
Educational content can be specifically
adjusted to the need, the requirement and
the individual learning conditions of the
student.
to handle high complexity: Today many
problems and questions have reached a
complexity which requires an interdiscip-
linary approach. Nevertheless continuous
education still needs to be affordable.
to offer education in niche topics: Regio-
nally limited markets with less demand
change into supraregional markets and
therefore appropriate offers can be imple-
mented economically wisely.
to offer an workplace oriented conti-
nuous education: Continuous education
in the form of classroom teaching has
many beneficial impacts like rewarding
effects, the strenghthening of social inter-
actions and even inspirational recuperative
effects. But often they are very expensive
and ineffective, because they can‘t ensure
that educational content is available
when it is needed: while problem solving,
directly at work or at the time when the
problem occurs.
more flexibility in selecting learning
facilities and study times.
an increasing motivation through
constant feedback options and knowledge
monitoring.
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actuality, because it becomes much easier
to update rapidly changing educational
content, for example in the field of infor-
mation technology.
to collect and merge the professional
skills of students more easily in their indivi-
dual expertise portfolios.
to offer a nationwide continuous edu-
cation of high quality.
to improve diagnostic possibilities:
Deficiencies which have to be improved
can be recognized more easily, so it is
possible to offer matching educational
content.
to improve the participation in social and
cultural life even with handicaps.
to build more homogenous learn groups
during attendance phases by preparing
learning modules. Attendance phases can
be limited to the contents and methods,
in which their advantages and potentials
are shown to the fullest.
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a more intensive support of the customers
and students by providing synchronous
and asynchronous communication and
feedback tools.
an easier implementation of the Bologna
Strategy: After the Bachelors‘ degree
students often enter into work life. Using
technically supported learning scenarios a
Masters‘ degree can significantly easier be
completed parallel to work life.
the improvement of integration measu-
res: After career breaks employees have
better possibilities to return adequately
skilled into work life, because the necessary
qualification offers and the required needs
can be optimally matched.
the medial preparation of educational
content and therefore an improvement
of the outcomes of continuous education
through media diversity, especially by
audio and video sequences, simulation,
animation,interactive elements and step
by step tutorials.
to prevent the digital separation of the
society: Because of their small size many
institutions are unable to handle the
technical and organisational challenges as
well as the regulations of data protection.
So the digital separation of society is
intensified by a digital separation of the
education and training landscape.
to consider that people changed
their communicational behaviour in
continuous education.
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1. High synergy effects
The joint use of technical infrastructure
makes it possible to use hard- and software
to an expense, which would be unrealistic
for a single institution.
Systems of a very high quality and
scalability can be used.
A very high availability is guaranteed (
at least 98 % in annual average – actual
availability in 2014: 99,991 %).
Operating system Debian, applications are
separated in the V-server, SELinux (security
enhanced linux) is used as a safety system.
Automated hardware and process
service monitoring guarantees that errors
are immediately recognized (automated
monitoring by over 1000 sensors).
A very high level of data security is
ensured by sophisticated data security
systems (backups), also in case of
unauthorized access attempts.
Data traffic as well as the actual data carri-
er (hard drives) is always encrypted.
The guidelines of the Federal Office for
Data Security (see https://www.bsi.bund.de/
DE/emen/Cyber-Sicherheit/ISi-Reihe/ISi-
Reihe_node.html) are strictly implemented.
Interfaces between the system and the
administration programs can be used jointly.
Significantly lower license prices become
possible, for example for virtual rooms like
Vitero.
Continuous “up to dateness” by ongoing
updates (ILIAS version 5.1 in responsive web
design since April 2016).
The joint usage of learning modules and
therefore high access numbers enables
to achieve more attractive prices for
professional content,
to develop customized license models,
which allow the modularisation of
content,
There are many good reasons to use the Digital Campus of Continuous Education.
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to jointly use the necessary interfaces
between learning modules,
to facilitate the content sharing and the
cooperation with other institutions.
2. The Digital Campus of Continuous Education provides plugins.
The range of functions within the Campus
of Continuous Education is significantly
extended by jointly used plugins, for
example Vitero (virtual conference room),
Etherpad (synchronous development of
documents, version controlled),
UserCreateEventHook (highly simplified
administration by automated skin and
rights assignment).
3. Individual advantage for institutions
A high level of security through a sophisti-
cated rights and role management
A clear distinction of categories with their
own local user administration
Global role administration
Multi-client capability
Individually configurable license manager
Single Sign-on (Shibboleth-Server)
All objects within ILIAS as well as all
content objects can be used as single ob-
jects (ILIAS is object based).
By referring courses classes can be used
beyond categories (essential for the coope-
ration of educational institutions)
Individual activation of personal data and
therefore increased self-determination for
the customer (can be listed as a convincing
argument in advertisement)
Edition adjustment to the terminal device
Support of SCORM 2014
Availability of the SCORM 2014
offline-player under Mozilla Firefox,
Individual appearance for every single
institution.
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4. Contractual security
Legally certified documents are made
available to the institutions, also documents
which lie in their own sphere of responsibi-
lity like data processing agreements, user
conditions for end users, administrators and
lecturers.
5. Development and technical support from the region
A team of developers located in Germany
facilitates the cooperation.
6. Awards
Finalist at the European eLearning
Award 2009
Price winner at the eLearning Award 2013
in the category „Social Media“
Price winner at the eLearning Award 2015
in the category „Virtual Classroom“
Nomination for the German eLearning
Award „Innovation and upcoming talents“
(d-elina) in the category „School“ in 2015
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Digital Campus for Continuous Education
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Internet
management net
REVERSE PROX Y
WEBSERVER-NET
DB-NET
Webserver Web V-Server n-te
DNS1DNS2 ILIAS Etherpad Openfire
OpenMeetings Selenium Mail vimotion
Logs abt
DB Server Template Selenium
Round Cube Trac
Test systems Webserver Config
Webserver Template Reserve Proxy Config
Reserve Proxy Config Monitoring
DB-Logs WebserverLogs
Reverse ProxyLogs
BackupLogs
DB VM DB2 VM
DB 1
DB NET
authentification service
Server VMap
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tions
and
serv
ices
Management-System/Backoffice
Back
up Ta
rger
t Ser
ver
Syslo
g/ Se
rver
Re
porti
ng
VPN
vimotion
Admin VLANDeveloper VLAN
SERVICE (S)V-Server
SERVICE (S)V-Server
Encrypted data systemEncrypted data system Encrypted data system
hard disk driverBuffer Cache Buffer Cache
DRBD
TCP/IP TCP/IP
NIC driver NIC driver
DRBD
hard disk driver hard disk driver
RAID hard disk driver
RAID hard disk driver RAID hard disk driver
vimhost01cHardwareHardware 16 cores64 GB memoryOS DebianSELinux
HardwareHardware 64 cores1 TB memoryOS DebianSELinux
vimhost01a vimhost01b
NIC - SERVICE (S)V-Server
The technical side of the Digital Campus
of Continuous Education forms a highly
failsafe server landscape, with a securi-
ty and availability which barely can be
made financially possible by single offers.
Every functionality is being implemen-
ted by an own, for this purpose designed
virtual server, which is separately main-
tained.
The modular design reduces the comple-
xity of the individual functional unit and
increases the maintainability of the sys-
tem in the long term. The various possibi-
lities result by interaction of these units.
All technical units are at least redundant
designed. If one component fails, its
redundant counterpart will automatically
fill in.
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Backup system
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C o n t a c t f o r m e m b e r s „ A l l i a n c e f o r L i f e l o n g L e a r n i n g “
I m a g e r i g h t s
S p o n s o r e d b y
vimotion GmbH
Friedhofstrasse 26
71566 Althütte
Phone 07183 42898-0
www.vi-motion.de
Roland Bauer
Phone 0711 279-2689
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