Disaster Resilience in Higher Education Systems via a Cloud University Model

Disaster Resilience in Higher Education Systems via a Cloud University Model

Objectives
CLOUD HED aims to provide HEIs operating under crisis conditions, particularly armed conflicts, with an evidence-based, whole-university solution to continue their T&L-operations. Core objective is to enhance the understanding of HE system challenges in crises, as well as to provide a whole-university concept, enabling HEIs to provide their education mission via a Cloud University Model. The concept involves innovative disaster-appropriate T&L-practices including the design of micro-credentials.

Activities
The activities of CLOUD HED include the preparation of case studies and a needs analysis handbook of HE systems pre-, during and post-crisis situations, the CLOUD HED concept for a whole-university shift to a Cloud University model and the development of training materials for teaching staff in order to prepare them for teaching in a Cloud University under crisis conditions. This involves conveying transversal and resilience skills relevant to cloud learning and teaching under crisis conditions.

Impact
The main and deliverable results of CLOUD HED will be (1) a handbook collecting selected case studies of HE-systems under crisis, their needs and innovative solutions, (2) adapted pilot-curricula for the shift to the cloud, including micro-credentials, (3) guidelines for HEIs’ emergency-induced transition towards a Cloud University, and (4) training materials for HEI- teachers, accessible via the CLOUD HED-website. A major outcome will be increased crisis resilience of (EU-) HE-systems.

The Partners:

WPZ Research GmbH, Austria - Coordinator

BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV, Israel
NATIONAL AGENCY FOR HIGHER EDUCATION QUALITY ASSURANCE, Ukraine
REZEKNES TEHNOLOGIJU AKADEMIJA, Latvia
SUMY STATE UNIVERSITY, Ukraine
UNIWERSYTET KARDYNALA STEFANA WYSZYNSKIEGO W WARSZAWIE, Poland