Ferdinand Porsche Fern-Fachhochschule
| Ferdinand Porsche FernFH | |
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| place | Wiener Neustadt |
| management | Axel Jungwirth, Management Martin Staudinger and Christa Walenta, Head of the College |
| Website | www.fernfh.ac.at |
The Ferdinand Porsche FernFH is a federally funded long-distance University of Applied Sciences in Austria . It was founded in 2006 and offers distance learning courses ( Bachelor , Master ) as well as continuing education courses. FernFH was recognized as a university of applied sciences in July 2018 by the Agency for Quality Assurance and Accreditation Austria according to international standards. The owners are FernFH Management & Service GmbH (74%) and the State of Lower Austria (26%).
history
The cooperation between the Austrian educational institutions Humboldt Bildungsgesellschaft and the Wiener Neustadt University of Applied Sciences led to the establishment of the first Austrian distance-learning university in 2006. In the spring of 2015, the Wiener Neustadt University of Applied Sciences initially took over one hundred percent of Ferdinand Porsche Fern-FH. In 2016 Werner Jungwirth (co-founder of FernFH) founded FernFH Management & Service GmbH and acquired one hundred percent of Ferdinand Porsche FernFH.
In 2007, teaching began with the bachelor's degree in business informatics, and the advanced master's degree was created two years later. In the same year, the FernFH expanded its range of courses with the bachelor's degree in "Business Administration & Business Psychology".
After FernFH reached 3rd place in the industrial magazine's university ranking in 2018, it landed first in 2019. The ranking shows the importance of technology change in the tertiary education sector.
In 2020 a cooperation was established with the spusu academy of the mobile phone provider spusu .
Range of courses and further education
The range of courses at Ferdinand Porsche FernFH includes distance learning courses with a bachelor's and master's degree, a Master of Business Administration (MBA) and certificate courses. The performance assessment is based on the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS).
Bachelor courses
- Aging Services Management, accredited by AQ Austria.
- Business administration and business psychology
- business Informatics
Masters courses
- Business administration and business psychology
- business Informatics
- Aging Services Management
MBA
- International Corporate Social Responsibility Management
Certificates
- Health Services Technologies
- Managing Generations and Technological Change
Study organization
The Ferdinand Porsche FernFH courses are designed as distance learning with a few days of attendance. FernFH relies on e-learning methods to enable students to study anywhere and anytime. The focal point of the course is the online campus. Extensive video content, exercises, podcasts, various learning materials, self-assessment tests and forums for exchange with fellow students and teachers are available in the courses.
The majority of the course is completed via the Online Campus, supplemented by the self-determined distance learning phases and face-to-face events. The latter takes place on six attendance days per semester on the campus in Wiener Neustadt.
The objectives, content and structure of the course are tailored to the needs of people who cannot or do not want to complete a traditional face-to-face course, e.g. B. Working people, people with care responsibilities (children, relatives in need of care) or people who live far away from universities.
Research and Teaching
According to its own information, Ferdinand Porsche FernFH conducts application-oriented research. The overarching research focus is the digitization and virtualization of society in all its specific aspects. a. Dynamics of virtual working and learning in organizations and markets, information systems , management and security as well as new technologies for promoting health and quality of life in old age and the use of digital aids in education and health. Students can take part in current research programs as part of their bachelor and master theses.
Individual evidence
- ^ Studying in Austria. Distance learning . Retrieved March 12, 2020
- ↑ Decisions of technical colleges at AQ Austria . Retrieved March 13, 2020
- ^ Participation of the state of Lower Austria in Ferdinand Porsche FernFH. Retrieved June 15, 2020 .
- ↑ Fern-Fachhochschule für Wiener Neustadt - noe.ORF.at. In: noe.orf.at. Retrieved May 19, 2016 .
- ↑ Christian Trinkl: Wiener Neustadt's online university ranks first in the comparison of universities of applied sciences . Article mein district.at . dated March 7, 2019. Retrieved March 12, 2020
- ↑ Neue Akademie relies on young IT talent at ORF.at from February 28, 2020. Accessed on March 12, 2020
- ↑ Accreditation result at AQ Austria from January 10, 2014 . Retrieved March 13, 2020
- ↑ Ferdinand Porsche FernFH Bachelor degree programs . Retrieved March 12, 2020
- ↑ Ferdinand Porsche FernFH master’s courses . Retrieved March 12, 2020
- ↑ Ferdinand Porsche FernFH MBA program . Retrieved March 12, 2020
- ↑ Ferdinand Porsche FernFH certificates . Retrieved March 12, 2020
- ↑ Course of studies on the FernFH website. . Retrieved March 12, 2020
- ↑ Research on the FernFH website , accessed on March 12, 2020
