Programme

  • Thursday, 9 October
      • 09.00 – 10.00 Registration of participants
    • Morning – Opening and Introduction to the theme
      • 10.00 – 11.00 Cross-border education. A new business? (Alberto Amaral)
      • 11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break
    • Morning – Conceptual framework - Chair David Dill
      • 11.30 – 12.30 Exporting one's wares, competitive assertiveness or Trojan Horse? Interpreting Cross-border Higher Education (Guy Neave)
      • 12.30 – 14.00 Lunch
    • Afternoon – The economic value of Cross-border Education – Chair Pedro Teixeira
      • 14.00 – 15.00 The Business of Cross-border Education (Jamil Salmi)
    • Afternoon – Quality and Cross-border Education – Chair Cláudia S. Sarrico
      • 15.00 – 16.00 Cross-border education. The UNESCO/OECD recommendation (Achim Hopbach)
      • 16.00 – 16.30 Coffee break
    • Afternoon – The view of stakeholders – Chair Sónia Cardoso
      • 16.30 – 18.00 Panel session
        • The view of HEIs (Andrée Sursock)
        • The view of students (ESU)
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  • Friday, 10 October
    • Morning – Understanding the Service Directive – Chair Alberto Amaral
      • 09.30 – 11.00 Panel Session
        • Why the European Parliament has passed the Service Directive? What protection was given to education? Was it successful? (Luigi Berlinguer)
        • A legal explanation of the consequences of the Service Directive (Jan de Groof)
      • 11.00 – 11.30  Coffee break
    • Morning – The Service Directive – Chair Orlanda Tavares
      • 11.30 – 12.30 Delivering Education across Borders in the European Union – National responses to the service directive and their effect on franchising, validation, and branch campuses (the recent report on CBHE in EU member states) (Lukas Bischof)
      • 12.30 – 14.00  Lunch
    • Afternoon – National Cases of Cross-border Education – Chair Guy Neave
      • 14.00 – 16.00 Panel Session
        • Italy (Luca Lantero)
        • Austria (Elsa Hackl )
        • UK (Anthony McClaran)
      • 16.00 – 16.30  Coffee break
    • Afternoon – Quality Agencies and the Service Directive – Chair Amélia Veiga
      • 16.30 – 17.30 How to minimize the negative effects of the Service Directive? How can national quality agencies collaborate? (Padraig Walsh)

  • Saturday, 11 October
    • Morning – The Emergence of MOOCs – Chair Maria João Rosa
      • 09.00 – 11.00 Panel Session
        • Implementing a MOOC (Joris Larik)
        • A reflective perspective on MOOCs (Russell Beale)
        • Accreditation of e-learning and MOOCs (Judith Eaton)
      • 11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break
    • Morning – Conclusions – Chair Alberto Amaral
      • 11.30 – 12.30  Conclusions and closure (Maria João Rosa and Cláudia Sarrico)
      • 12.30 – 14.00  Lunch