Mr. Matjaz Debevc
Associate professor
University of Maribor
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Smetanova ulica 17
Maribor, Slovenia
Phone: +386 2 2207105
Fax: +386 2 2207272
E-mail: matjaz.debevc@uni-mb.si
University of Maribor (MB) Slovenia
University of Maribor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Slovenia (UM FERI) with his Telematics group serves as the central coordinating and consulting body for the University level efforts in the field of open, flexible and distance education and especially for education for disable people using information and communication technology.
The Telematics group brings together experts from various field of science, from Distance Education, Automatics, Robotics, Remote Engineering and Information and Communication Educational Technology.
Main goals of the group are technological and educational support at the development of distance education, advising and informing about the latest technologies for distance education. Previous and current European cooperation of the Telematics group (in 5 years) - 5 TEMPUS Individual Mobility Grants, 1 TEMPUS PHARE Project, 3 PHARE projects, 9 CEEPUS projects, 1 INCO COPERNICUS project, 2 SOCRATES projects and 2 LEONARDO project.
The Telematics group provide following products and solutions: Internet videoconferencing for hard of hearing and deaf population, video supported web education for hard of hearing and deaf population, distance education course development, virtual university over www, hypervideo, real-time video supported experiment over the www and guidelines for using information and communication technology for disable education.
The role of the University of Maribor will be: financial coordination, participation in the project implementation, participation at organizations of meetings, giving expertise at development of eLearning, management and learning materials, evaluation of the development and dissemination of results.