Participatory Framework for Bologna Process in Slovak Universities

Higher education institutions (HEI) in Slovakia have undergone the serious transformation (the adaptation to free market economy, Bologna process, etc.); however the participation of broad academic and student community on the transformation was not always assured. One of the promising approaches to change the existing situation was to introduce participatory electronic framework in the selected Universities for discussing the problems of educational policies in HEI in the framework of Bologna processes, which may have the potential impact on HEI, as well as, on broader society. Although e-participation methods have showed the promising potential for acceleration of changes related to solving educational problems and Bologna processes by better use of intellectual potential of universities, they also revealed the new problems that are briefly discussed.