Title:	DESIGNING A VIRTUAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT FOR ACCOUNTING LECTURES
Author(s):	Michaela M. Schaffhauser-linzatti , Regina Michalski-karl , Silvia Pernsteiner
ISBN:	978-972-8924-58-4
Editors:	Miguel Baptista Nunes and Maggie McPherson (series editors: Piet Kommers, Pedro Isaías and Nian-Shing Chen)
Year:	2008
Edition:	V II, 2
Keywords:	Accounting, eBologna, Blended Learning, Corporate Learning, eAssessment, Virtual Learning Environments
Type:	Poster/Demonstration
First Page:	263
Last Page:	265
Language:	English
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Paper Abstract:	Implementing the targets of eBologna, the University of Vienna initiated the project “eAccounting”. Set up within a virtual learning environment, the customized teaching and learning management system didactically follows the Blended Learning approach. Specific challenges comprise the inhomogeneous level of accounting knowledge, different language skills of mostly non-native speaking first-year students, large-scale classes with more than 500 students, the multi-faceted fields of accounting and the comprehensive use of the platform in transdisciplinary as well as consecutive courses. As these diversities are not yet covered by already existing didactical concepts and technical solutions, eAccounting meets the demand of a customized, notwithstanding universally applicable Learning Management System. Working with open source software enables the embedding of both individual and cooperative dynamic learning features by various selfdeveloped scripts and randomized applications to generate educationally sustained added value.
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