Towards the Mainstreaming of Online Mobility at KU Leuven

Abstract

Online mobility—learning activities where students engage online with other institutions abroad, while physically remaining at their home institution—has been of interest for several decades in Europe and at KU Leuven. This article describes the journey KU Leuven is going through to bring this form of learning into their mainstream offering to their 60,000+ students. Framed in Educational Design Research, this article presents a study where the authors explore the core needs regarding didactic support and student administration to devise interventions facilitating the university-wide uptake of online mobility. They reflect on the steps taken towards policy-level strategic vision development as well as micro-level sustainable support structures.

Keywords

• online mobility
• blended intensive programmes
• higher education policy
• international learning
• educational design research