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1. Manuel Dietz. 2. unisolution. 3. Bologna. 4. European Initatives. 5. RS3G. 6. Use Cases. 7. Questions and Answers. 1. Manuel Dietz. 2. unisolution. 3. Bologna. 4. European Initatives. 5. RS3G. 6. Use Cases. 7. Questions and Answers. Background Manuel Dietz. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
RS3G: European Standards Initiative Supporting the Bologna Process
Washington D.C. April 6, 2009
11:00 – 12:00
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Manuel DietzManuel Dietz11
unisolutionunisolution22
BolognaBologna33
European InitativesEuropean Initatives44
RS3GRS3G55
Use CasesUse Cases66
Questions and AnswersQuestions and Answers77
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Manuel DietzManuel Dietz11
unisolutionunisolution22
BolognaBologna33
European InitativesEuropean Initatives44
RS3GRS3G55
Questions and AnswersQuestions and Answers77
Use CasesUse Cases66
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Background Manuel Dietz
Studied architecture at
TU Darmstadt…
… spent one year with Erasmus in Madrid, Spain …
… and worked in the International Office at TU Darmstadt
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Working in an International Office
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Manuel DietzManuel Dietz11
unisolutionunisolution22
BolognaBologna33
European InitativesEuropean Initatives44
RS3GRS3G55
Questions and AnswersQuestions and Answers77
Use CasesUse Cases66
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QS unisolution GmbH
Founded in 2001 in the Technical University Darmstadt by Manuel Dietz and Stéphane Velay
Team of 11 colleagues based in Stuttgart
300 institutions in 15 countries using moveon, more than 1,200 members of the moveonnet web portal
From April 1st 2009 part of QS group based in London
Our mission:
To provide institutions of higher education with software, portals and services essential for their development in the international field
QS unisolution
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Application- andAdmissions Management
Higher Education Worldwide
Fairs
Services and EventsPortals
Supporting International Education
International Relations Management
Higher Education Worldwide
Software
Rankings
Trainings and Workshops
QS and QS unisolution - Portfolio
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The unisolution user community
300 institutions in 15 countires using our software
1,500 colleagues working with moveon everyday
100,000 students yearly managed in moveon
Instituions using moveon
South Africa 1
Germany 132
Belgium 9
Denmark 2
Spain 8
France 93
Ireland 4
Italy 1
Netherlands 4
Portugal 2
UK 7
Sweden 11
Switzerland 7
Turkey 3
Taiwan 1
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Manuel DietzManuel Dietz11
unisolutionunisolution22
BolognaBologna33
European InitativesEuropean Initatives44
RS3GRS3G55
Questions and AnswersQuestions and Answers77
Use CasesUse Cases66
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Europe before Bologna
27 countries in todays EU-europe
- Diversity of educational systems and degrees
- Difficulties in transferring academic achievements
- Incompatibility between countries
- Many inhibitors to mobility
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Europe with Bologna
European Higher Education Area
academic degree standards
introduction of comparable degrees (Bachelor / Master)
introduction of Credit Point System (ECTS)
recognition of degrees
increase attractiveness of European higher education
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Europe with Bologna
European Higher Education Area
Bologna started with 29 member states
Today EHEA has 46 members
Students in tertiary education
- 16.5 Mio. Students in EU 27 - 17.2 Mio students in USA
Students in mobility per year
- 360,000 in EU 27 - 200,000 in Euro Area
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One focus of Bologna is Mobility
There are three types of mobility
Exchange Mobility = Students studying parts of one learning period in another institution
Dual / Mulitple Degree Mobility = Students studying in more than one institution and receiving more than one degree
Transfer Mobility = Students transfering within or after a learning period (e.g. Bachelor Degree) completely from one institution to another
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Successes of Bologna until today
One of the successes of Bologna was the introduction of Bachelor / Masters Degrees throughout europe and of ECTS
… shorter study cycles within the two levels
… comparable degrees across europe
… easier transfer from one institution to another
… continous growth in exchange mobility
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The next challenges
Still to be resolved are processes to …
… transfer credits outside of exchange mobility
… transfer data between universities in general
… make data transfer and recognition more transparent
… define standards between different IT systems
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Manuel DietzManuel Dietz11
unisolutionunisolution22
BolognaBologna33
European InitativesEuropean Initatives44
RS3GRS3G55
Questions and AnswersQuestions and Answers77
Use CasesUse Cases66
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Major european projects on standards for courses / student data
UK: XCRI (courses)
Norway: CDM (courses)
France: CDM-FR (courses)
Sweden: LadokPing (students)
Sweden: Emil (courses)
Italy: Anagrafe nazionale (students)
EU: PLOTEUS (courses)
UK/Ireland: digitary full electronic graduation documents
EU: CEDEFOP- Europass
Italy: Alma Laurea (graduates)
CEN Technical Committee 353(European Committee for Standardization)
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Manuel DietzManuel Dietz11
unisolutionunisolution22
BolognaBologna33
European InitativesEuropean Initatives44
RS3GRS3G55
Questions and AnswersQuestions and Answers77
Use CasesUse Cases66
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RS3G was initiated by unisolution in collaboration with Digitary and KION
Exchange ideas and experience around student and curriculum data transfer between institutions of Higher Education
Supporting the Bologna Process by developing new technological approaches and standards to implement them
The roots of RS3G
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European workshop, 9th November 2007 in Rome
Defining standards and procedures for the exchange
of student curriculum data between
Higher Education Institutions
40 participants from 13 countries incl. PESC
Rome Student Systems and Standards Group (R3SG)
Recommendations
oPermanent Observatory
oDelegation of Experts to CEN
oPromote technical subgroups
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Most important members are
Digitary EAIE EUNISGartner JISC / CETISHIS KIONLADOKOraclePESCSungardunisolution
RS3G member institutions
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Steering committee members
Gunnar Backelin, LADOK (SE)
Jonathan Dempsey, Digitary (IE)
Jean Francois Desnos, EUNIS (FR)
Manuel Dietz, unisolution (DE)
Herrmann de Leeuw, EAIE (NL)
Simone Ravaioli, KION (IT)
Advisors to steering committee
Jan Martin Lowendahl, Gartner Research (SE)
David Moldoff, PESC and Academy One (USA)
Mark Stubbs, Manchester Metropolitan University (GB)
RS3G steering committee
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Bringing standards together with “real life”
Implementers groupsi.e. R3SG
Standardization authoritiesi.e. CEN
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The opportunities for standards
Student Observatory
STUDY PROGRAMMES & COURSE UNITS CATALOGUE
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STUDY PROGRAMME DETAILS
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COURSE UNIT DETAILS
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LEARNING AGREEMENT
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TRANSCRIPT OF RECORDS
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DIPLOMA SUPPLEMENT
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CURRICULUM VITAE
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Business Cases Flow
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Focus areas
European Learner Mobility
Security / authentication (identity and tamper-evidence)
Description of course units / unit catalogue
Curriculum versioning (snapshot)
Curriculum rules / Degree Structure / Pathway
Academic history of individual
Graduation documents (European Diploma Supplement and other)
Course equivalency/matching
Grading Scheme (how the grading scales and distribution are built
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Principles agreed by the group
1.Manage diversity
2.Integrate and acknowledge existing activities by always checking other work first, i.e. don't reinvent where there has been work done elsewhere such as by PESC, CEN, ISO, HR-XML, IMS
3.Use pilot implementations and feedback from users to advance standards activity
4.Publicise the work of the group as possible with keynotes at major conferences
5.Generally use of pointers is better than transfer of data, where appropriate
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Future Roadmap for RS3G
Liaise with other groups such as EAIE, EUNIS, CEN
Build formal structures with two meetings per year + steering committee
Work on pilot projects between Institutions, Suppliers and National / European Institutions
Influence the standards in Higher Education
Promote new technologies in the HE sector across borders
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Manuel DietzManuel Dietz11
unisolutionunisolution22
BolognaBologna33
European InitativesEuropean Initatives44
RS3GRS3G55
Use casesUse cases66
Questions and AnswersQuestions and Answers77
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The unisolution approach on Bologna with e-mobility
One of unisolutions main focuses is on supporting international exchange, erasmus and study abroad with IT managed processes and software
This includes
Preparing exchange frameworks (Bilateral exchange Agreements)
Providing accessible course offer (Learning Agreements, LA)
Transferring data related to mobility (Nomination)
Transferring academic achievements (Transcripts of Records, ToR)
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Definition e-mobility
The e-mobility process includes the following electronic procedures:
standard electronic procedure for exchange agreements
(before mobility)
standard electronic procedure for nomination of exchange students
(before mobility)
standard electronic procedure for exchange of curriculum data of
exchange students (consisting of e-Learning Agreement and the e-Transcript of Records)
(before, during and after mobility)
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The ways to use the e-procedures
e-procedures service provider
Web services
moveon Own system
Web services
Web services
moveonnet
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Advantages of e-mobility
• Transparent information flow between all parties involved (partner institutions & student)
• Automated data transfer prevents repeated data entry and mistakes (e.g. online course catalogue LA ToR Home Institutions Student Management)
• One standard system usable by all institutions worldwide for incoming and outgoing students with moveon, moveonnet or own system
• Reduces unnecessary paperwork
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Current use of e-mobility
• e-nomination was first used in 2007/08 as pilot phase
• in 2008/09 e-nomination was actively used by around 50 european institutions to nominate 10.000 students
• e-nomination was also used by some US institutions
• in 2009/10 our aim is to increase that number by 100% or more
• e-transcripts are piloted until June 2009 and will be opened to public in July at the yearly moveon users conference in Stockholm, Sweden
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Challenges for e-mobility
• Too many different data formats (courses, grades, persons)
• Already existing standards (CDM, CDM-FR) only implemented in very few institutions
• Diversity of existing processes … or even no processes at all in place
• Authentication methods when transferring sensitive data
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How RS3G can help
• Standardizing the many different formats of course catalogues
• Bringing the implementors together
• Promote new business models for the universities
• Piloting between different countries
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Manuel DietzManuel Dietz11
unisolutionunisolution22
BolognaBologna33
European InitativesEuropean Initatives44
RS3GRS3G55
Use CasesUse Cases66
Questions and AnswersQuestions and Answers77
Contacts
Manuel Dietz
Managing Director QS unisolution GmbH
+49 711 25359160
www.unisolution.eu
Your questions … ?
Contacts
Manuel Dietz
Managing Director QS unisolution GmbH
+49 711 25359160
www.unisolution.eu