- 41 - European Virtual University – ODL Voice Course

The paper presents an experimental Socrates ODL pilot project – European Virtual University -Voice Course. The aim of the project is to implement new information technologies (e.g. multimedia in Internet/Intranet) in educational programmes in Logopedics. The project has been developed partly through 8 partners' collaboration within Erasmus and the Socrates Thematic Network in Speech Communication Sciences and partly through a special grant from the Swedish National Agency for Higher Education. The project’s objectives are primarily to promote education and training in collaboration between universities, hospitals and schools. The main activities are to adapt, implement and evaluate an interactive web-based Voice Course in the partner university departments. The use of hypermedia/multimedia and the concept "knowledgenode” as a demonstrator for a virtual arena on Internet/Intranet, will be further explored in the paper. Through the EVU-Voice Course we intend to create a virtual university space where students, clinical staff and teachers, independently of space and time, can take a real part in life-long-learning.