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A Virtual University Providing an Online Master Program in a Public-Private Partnership: Challenges and Solutions
Abstract
The challenges and findings presented in this paper are based on experiences from a completely online master program delivered on the Internet, the “International Master of Business Informa-tics (MBI)”. This program was designed by the Virtual Global University (VGU) in a private-public partnership with the European University Viadrina (EUV) in Frankfurt/Oder, Germany. Organizational, technical, and legal problems that had to be solved in the development and implementation of this program are discussed. In the next section the structure and specific features of the MBI program are described. Section 3 discusses organizational problems in creating an online master program provided by a virtual organization [1] like VGU. Legal problems to be attacked are the focus of section 4. In section 5, challenges posed by the multimedia technologies used in the MBI program are discussed, in par-ticular problems that have to be solved when video streaming is a preferred mode of deliver-ing courses. A brief summary and conclusions are given in section 6.
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