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Specifications vs Standards: the adoption dilemma

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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

Rome Student Systems and Standards Group (R3SG)

RecommendationsoPermanent Observatory

oDelegation of Experts to CEN

oPromote technical subgroups

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… new kid on the block

•Market attention

ReportsoPESC

oAcademy One

oGartner

CEN (European Committee for Standardization)oMLO (Metadata for Learning Opportunity)

oNWI (New Work Item) on European Learner Mobility

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… The Road to Dublin

•Actions on the Recommendations

Permanent ObservatoryoReport on MLO activities

o2° workshops

Delegation of experts to CENoDone – 3 representatives

oBruxelles and Paris meeting

Promote Technical subgroupsoGlossary (considered also at MLO level)

oBusiness Cases – to be fed to MLO

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Dublin Worshop

Sharing Perspectives for the Rapid Development of Standards for Course Description and Curriculum Data

Implementersi.e. R3SG

Standardization authoritiesi.e. CEN

2 “standard” perspectives:

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Is there a Gap ?

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Closing the Gap..

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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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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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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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Work Items

Prioritization of focus areas to be addressed in next workshop

Higher Education Glossary Task

RS3G wiki - supporting tool for collaborationohttp://wiki.teria.no/confluence/display/RS3G/Home+of+RS3G

Proliferation of workshop results (events, conferences)

Next workshop to be held in Stuttgart and hosted by unisolution

Participation to EUNIS Tutorial on Standards

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Specifications vs Standards: the adoption dilemma

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Next Workshop

•See you in Stuttgart – October 2008

•Open participation

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