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ViCES sustainability strategy. - Video Conferencing Educational Services Dissemination Event - Belgrade, November 11, 2010 RCUB, Belgrade, Serbia. Purpose.
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ViCES sustainability strategy - Video Conferencing Educational Services Dissemination Event - Belgrade, November 11, 2010 RCUB, Belgrade, Serbia
Purpose To provide guidelines, best-practices and recommendations to those interested in setting up sustainable video conferencing services in their university.
Sustainability strategy elements • the community • the environment • the economy • the organization • - The organization must embrace all previous elements in order to ensure sustainability within staff, operations, and stakeholders.
Sustainability strategy elements (cont.) The sustainability elements are not mutually exclusive. The integration of these elements should result in sustainability. The elements should be balanced.
ViCES& Community • Multi campus universities • Often spreaded over wider geographical region • Lectures and seminars with relevance to a wider audience • Life long learning • Open campuses • Links with industry / government institutions • Internationalization • International curriculum (double or joined degree) • Mobility of students/academic staff
ViCES& Economics Cost Accounting variable costs (post production, additional educational content…) fixed costs (equipment, salaries, ) Cost Model
ViCES & Economics Cost Categories
ViCES & Economics Revenue Sources renting infrastructure - industry - governmental agencies (local government) lectures & seminars - students, adults (continual education) - industry - governmental agencies (local government) video streaming content ….. Savings Time savings Travel costs savings
ViCES & Environment • Meeting travel • - video conferencing reduce unnecessary meeting travel, • - savings on energy resources (fuel) • decrease air pollution • reduces emissions caused by commuting • Production/operations • - reduce the energy consumption and Carbon footprint • - comply with all relevant environmental legislation, including the EU’s directives • - reduce the amount of materials used in shipping • - Decission optimizations (meetings can be done more often)
ViCES & Organization The EFQM Excellence model European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) Educational organizations can use the EFQM model for the following purposes: - as a framework for self-evaluation that enables an educational organization to identify its strengths and areas for improvement and the extent to which its operations and results are in line with the characteristics of an excellent organization; - as a framework for the educational organization's management system - as a way to identify individual areas for improvement.
ViCES & Organization EFQM Excellence model http://www.efqm.org/