IWOOTI was set up by the EUROPEAN VIRTUAL ACADEMY in 2012. IWOOTI was seeking to bring top research and proven best practices in online teaching and learning. IWOOTI 2012 was intended partly as a summary of the results from the two years of the project EVA, funded by the European Commission. Project Number: 509941-LLP-1-2010-1-RO-ERASMUS-EVC.
The IWOOTI workshop committee welcomed both academic and practitioner papers on a wide range of topics and scholarly approaches including theoretical and empirical papers as well as project reports and short demonstrations. Topics included, among others, the following:
- Online courses, online-learning platforms and virtual universities
- Modern approaches and activities included in virtual teaching
- Online pedagogy
- Technology enhanced learning
- Research in progress
- Case studies of E-Learning projects
- Evaluation of strategies to achieve/deliver online learning