The university of the village: universities connecting with rural communities

乡村大学是法尔茅斯大学、萨里大学和格拉摩根大学与英国电信合作开展的一项活动，探讨了农村社区在利用大学外联方案方面面临的障碍，探讨了通过超高速宽带加强的新的交付模式。主要是通过大学和农村社区与互联网提供商和其他地方企业合作的伙伴关系模式，探索开发和提供服务的新方法。该项目还提出了一个学习模式，重点是社区，而不是个人和一个创造性的，共同设计的课程。该项目与三个乡村社区-圣艾格尼丝（康沃尔）、伊斯特拉德·米纳赫（威尔士）和弗恩赫斯特（萨里郡）-合作了12个月。参与的性质因社区而异，取决于宽带服务的稳健性以及影响参与背景的其他当地因素。我们将三个社区连接在一起的能力有限，但该项目产生了一系列非常成功的成果，包括社区内的额外活动以及对超高速宽带对大学和农村社区的好处的见解。它还成功地展示了使用额外带宽在在线环境中实现共存。

University of the Village was collaboration between the Universities of Falmouth, Surrey and Glamorgan and BT and interrogated the barriers facing rural communities in accessing university outreach programmes by exploring new modes of delivery, enhanced through Superfast Broadband. Principally it explored new ways of developing and delivering provision through a partnership model of universities and rural communities working together with internet providers and other local businesses. The project also proposed a learning model which focused upon community, rather than the individual and a creative, co-designed curriculum. The project worked with three village communities - St. Agnes (Cornwall); Ystrad Mynach (Wales); and Fernhurst (Surrey) - over a period of twelve months. The nature of the engagement differed between communities and was subject to the robustness of the broadband service, as well as additional local factors that affected the context of the engagements. There was limited success in our ability to connect the three communities together, but the project produced a set of highly successful outcomes, including additional activity within communities and insights into the benefits of superfast broadband for both universities and rural communities. It also successfully demonstrated the use of additional bandwidth to create co-presence in an online environment.