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Visibility of European Higher Education Area initiatives in Spanish universities home websites
Luis M. SÁNCHEZ-RUIZ, Mónica E. EDWARDS & Enrique BALLESTER-SARRIAS
Polytechnic University of Valencia, Valencia (Spain)
4th EISTA '06 July 20-23, 2006 – Orlando, Florida, USA.
Why universities websites
Context
Goals
Sample and methodology
Results
Conclusions
4th EISTA '06 July 20-23, 2006 – Orlando, Florida, USA.
Websites usually become the first external image of the University.
Websites may even become the only source of information for outsiders
Websites are the first shopwindow where heterogeneous people (students, teachers, researchers, administrative staff, etc.) can consult the subjects they are interested in by interacting with the institutions.
4th EISTA '06 July 20-23, 2006 – Orlando, Florida, USA.
Define the image of the University in the outside.
An instrument to show the institutional culture and its own identity.
Become the only element of communication and publicity of the structure and activities showing its philosophy, organization and strategic position.
Their success depends upon its quality, distribution, and many other competitive factors including its size, language, age, visibility, popularity and its impact factor, among other aspects.
4th EISTA '06 July 20-23, 2006 – Orlando, Florida, USA.
4Göteborg 7
Graz2003
5Praga2001
1París1998
6Zürich
2002
8Berlín2003
2Bolonia
19993
Salamanca
9Bergen
2005
The Bologna Declaration called for the following:
Adoption of a system of easily readable and comparable degrees
A degree structure based on two main cycles (undergraduate and graduate)
A common system of credits (the European Credit Transfer System, ECTS)
Elimination of obstacles for mobility of students and job seekers
4th EISTA '06 July 20-23, 2006 – Orlando, Florida, USA.
4th EISTA '06 July 20-23, 2006 – Orlando, Florida, USA.
We try to answer the following questions:
Is the information of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) actually available in all Spanish universities websites?
Are Spanish initiatives for EHEA visible in their websites?
How visible is this presence?
4th EISTA '06 July 20-23, 2006 – Orlando, Florida, USA.
the European Higher Education Area related content
quality and quantity
web page characteristics and actualization
how easily this content may be reached
We analyze different features in N = 56 Spanish Universities considering
4th EISTA '06 July 20-23, 2006 – Orlando, Florida, USA.
Pages and Log (pages) for introduction of EHEA expression.
Content access facility, analyzing the difficult level (easy, average and difficult to find EHEA issues within the website).
Content weight amount related to the quality and quantity of information (measure with the scale 1 to 5).
Innovation networks references at national or international level. For example, Tuning project.
4th EISTA '06 July 20-23, 2006 – Orlando, Florida, USA.
Access to EHEA expression in Spanish websites
0
20
40
60
80
100
1st page 2nd page 3rd page 4th page > 4th
%
4th EISTA '06 July 20-23, 2006 – Orlando, Florida, USA.
The general tittles in the introduction of EHEA
issues are usually in English, but the contents are
in Spanish or in other local community languages
(catalán, euskera, gallego, valenciano).
The majority of websites are in Spanish language
(and without English translation possibility), and
this situation is unfavourable for the information
exchange at international level.
4th EISTA '06 July 20-23, 2006 – Orlando, Florida, USA.
Level of difficulty for accessing to the EHEA contents
0
20
40
60
80
100
easy average difficult
%
4th EISTA '06 July 20-23, 2006 – Orlando, Florida, USA.
Percentage of websites with valuation of quality and quantity information level of EHEA contents (from 5 = high level to 0 = nothing)
0
20
40
60
80
100
5 4 3 2 1 0
%
4th EISTA '06 July 20-23, 2006 – Orlando, Florida, USA.
The 62.5% of the websites is very good documented in EHEA topics, but only the 33.9% has high level of information at both national and European levels.
Only the 33% of the analyzed websites contain activities related to research networks on higher education or provide information about innovation activity with European projection.
4th EISTA '06 July 20-23, 2006 – Orlando, Florida, USA.
The visibility of EHEA on websites shows indirectly the achievements of the Spanish universities and identifies remaining obstacles and weaknesses to the advances in the harmonization of the educative systems and the construction of the European Higher Education Area
4th EISTA '06 July 20-23, 2006 – Orlando, Florida, USA.
It is necessary a major visibility of the interactions
and transparency of information for the different
stakeholders.
Further efficiency gains could be reaped from
networking national and regional initiatives, sharing
information and experience and learning from each
other.
The improvement of high levels of connectivity into
the universities networks may have a significant
impact to materialize the Bologna objectives.
4th EISTA '06 July 20-23, 2006 – Orlando, Florida, USA.
Thanks!
http://www.eees.ua.es/
http://www.uab.es/servlet/Satellite?cid=1096479900713&pagename=UAB%2FPage%2FTemplatePlanaModel1
http://www.uniovi.es/EEES/
4th EISTA '06 July 20-23, 2006 – Orlando, Florida, USA.