1. The Kaleidoscope Telearn & VDS initiatives Professor Pierre Tchounikine University of Le Mans, France

2. Telearn Open Archive initiative

3. www.noe-kaleidoscope.org3  Free access to scientific publications for everybody from everywhere  Easy deposit of published or unpublished materials  Sustainable repository (more reliable then personal “home pages”) Open archive basic principles

4. www.noe-kaleidoscope.org4  Defragmenting local / disciplinary archives  Different disciplines  Different cultures  Different materials  PDF Documents  Videos  Technology assets  Bibliographical descriptions  Different languages  issue / metadata  Hosted by an external organization Kaleidoscope Telearn archive

5. www.noe-kaleidoscope.org5 http://telearn.noe-kaleidoscope.org/

6. www.noe-kaleidoscope.org6  Weapon against plagiarism  Impact of a paper uploaded on an OA is three to four times its impact without it (?)  Many publishers are supportive to the OAI  Possibility to stamp documents  Quality stamps  Organization stamps  Etc. Open Archive FAQ

7. VDS initiative (Virtual Doctoral School)

8. www.noe-kaleidoscope.org8 Virtual Doctoral School: objectives 1.PhD learning activities and resources 2.a technological platform to support an integrated academic life and promote collaboration within PhD students 3.an integration with existing practices and an institutional recognition promote community building among PhD Students and senior researchers

9. www.noe-kaleidoscope.org9 Learning activities  Cognitive approaches to media based learning (course) 11 PhD from 7 different countries  Script approaches in CSCL (workshop) 14 PhD students from 5 different countries  Role of ICT in argumentation in science (workshop) 15 PhD students from 6 different countries  (…) 5-7 events / year Organized by several labs

10. www.noe-kaleidoscope.org10 Resources  List of doctoral schools  List of learning activities from Kal Universities  Outputs from the organized learning activities  Outputs from Kal content-based activities  Review of literature  …

11. www.noe-kaleidoscope.org11 The platform documents page

12. www.noe-kaleidoscope.org12 The platform PhD members page

13. www.noe-kaleidoscope.org13 Lessons learned  Major interest for the VDS concept  effective integration  integration in the long-term (via PhD students)  scientific interest in sharing top-level courses  …  Major difficulties  PhD education is very different in different countries / different disciplines  national requirements  document-based courses / interactive workshops  …

14. www.noe-kaleidoscope.org14 Towards sustainability  An entity that networks a set of European Universities and takes the best from its networked members to create top-level PhD students  A set of opportunities that Ph.D. students could benefit from within the context of, and subject to the constraints of, their local institutions (not a common programme)  Brokering existing learning activities and creating collaboratively new ones  A flexible structure  No burden  No “standardization”  Different uses: punctual use, long-time agreements, curricula Issues: quality insurance, recognition (ECTS, etc.), …