Tnc21: Combining waves of innovation. A superposition for student mobility.
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- 1. COMBINING WAVES OF INNOVATION. A SUPERPOSITION FOR STUDENT MOBILITY A SURF project to facilitate and stimulate student mobility using technology for enhanced flexibility and the powers of an NREN. Jocelyn Manderveld Frans Ward 21 June 2021
- 2. What is the problem?
- 3. Increasing focus to enhance flexibility for students
- 5. To solve The student wants an overview of courses from all institutions in one place. The student wants all information such as timetables, progress in one place. The student wants to log in and register easily and securely with one identity at each educational institution. The student wants proof of achieved learning outcomes with digital certificates.
- 7. WHAT IS THE OOAPI? Photo by Caleb Woods on Unsplash
- 8. 9 Open Education API: an open standard to make educational data available "Making education data accessible in a standardised, secure and user-friendly way." Project Open Educational API (OOAPI) Since 2014 Objective:
- 9. 10 What do we mean by ”Education Data"? Metadata about educational institute or Open Educational Resources (OER) or Administrative data that is released by educational systems OOAPI https://www.flickr.com/photos/patrick_dockens/12058032686
- 10. It is an Open standard: OpenAPI specification & documentation on Github V4 available - in line with development of IMS EDUAPI
- 12. 13 To Summarize: OOAPI: the standard for exchanging educational data V4 available - in line with development of IMS EDUAPI V4: https://open-education- api.github.io/specification/v4/docs.html
- 13. WHAT IS THE OOAPI-GATEWAY? Photo by Chinh Le Duc on Unsplash
- 14. • The OOAPI-Gateway can aggregate educational data that is released by institutions using the OOAPI standard.
- 15. • The OOAPI-Gateway is the data source for an OOAPI client. This data is originating from educational institutions using the OOAPI standard. • An OOAPI client is an application, such as the education catalogue, that requests data from the gateway. OOAPI client I.e. Site with all the educational offerings
- 16. • Students can use their eduID to sign in at the guest institution to enrol for a course. • Students give their consent to transfer the necessary data from the home institution to the guest institution. Site with all the educational offerings Login Home Institution Data Transfer Guest Institution • Sign in at guest institution • Consent to data transfer Control
- 19. 20 To Summarize: The OOAPI-Gateway ensures that educational data can be be exchanged. The OOAPI-Gateway enables cross-institutional exchange of educational data. The OOAPI-Gateway is a central point where data accessed via the OOAPI can be provided uniformly and securely from the institution to various data users.
- 20. WHAT IS eduID? Photo by Alex Iby on Unsplash
- 21. Characteristics of the eduID • Identity for students • Life long usable • Under the control of the user • Respects privacy • Increase level of assurance • Enriched with attributes from external sources
- 22. a number, the ”ID” an identity based on attributes an account based on identities a login service unlocking accounts Possible interpretations of the eduID Set of rules & regulations
- 23. 25 To Summarize: • eduID: one identity that students can use at any educational institution: before, during and after their studies. • Personalised. • In control by the individual. • Usable for life, also after graduation. • Privacy-friendly.
- 25. WHAT ARE EDUBADGES? Photo by Honey Yanibel Minaya Cruz on Unsplash
- 26. Edubadges was developed with and for Dutch (higher) education. We are working together in order to issue digital certificates in a standardized way using the Open Badges standard. So that edubadges become comparable, interchangeable and stackable.
- 27. How does edubadges work? 29 Institution set up their issuers and badgeclasses. Student fulfils criteria to earn an edubadge and requests edubadge through platform using their eduID. The teacher or the administration checks the request and grants (or refuses) the request or award the edubadge directly. Student receives edubadge in their backpack and can share it digitally from there. External party can view and validate the shared edubadge.
- 28. Added 10 Metadata Extensions Adding European centric metadata extensions and aligning with Bologna tools like the Diploma Supplement ISSUER • InstitutionNameExtension • InstitutionIdentifierExtension • GradingTableExtension BADGECLASS • LanguageExtension (Language of instruction) • ECTSExtension (Number of European Credit Transfer Points) • StudyLoadExtension (Study load in hours) • TimeInvestmentExtension (Time invested in hours) • EQFExtension (European Qualifications Framework) • LearningOutcomeExtension • EducationProgramIdentifierExtension YES! I’m number one! Not. yet… Should weexplain him our country’s grading system?! https://wiki.surfnet.nl/display/edubadges/metadata+extensions
- 30. The catalogue is publicly available. So is the badge class metadata.
- 31. • The backpack of the student is the ‘wallet’ of all earned edubadges. • An edubadge can be made sharable enabling viewers to verify it.
- 32. To Summarize: SURF edubadges: a platform for awarding digital certificates. As of 1 October 2020 offered as a SURF service. For both formal and informal (extracurricular) education. Transparent, stackable, exchangeable and open source. 35
- 33. Photo by Caleb Woods on Unsplash OOAPI, OOAPI-Gateway, eduID and Edubadges will provide a more flexible and transparent approach to curriculum and grading for all learners
- 34. Only for Dutch institutes?
- 35. COMBINING WAVES OF INNOVATION. A SUPERPOSITION FOR STUDENT MOBILITY 39 Jocelyn Manderveld, Frans Ward E-mail: jocelyn.manderveld@surf.nl frans.ward@surf.nl www.surf.nl Driving innovation together @SURF_NL
Editor's Notes
- So let’s begin on our journey. A journey what it is all about. A journey to support students! In the last couple of years we see, in Dutch Higher Education, a stronger demand from students that they want to follow courses at other institutes. They want more flexible curricula; they want to be more in control of their own learning journey.
- With this in mind we see at a strategic level, that there is an increasing focus to enhance flexibility for students. On a national level we even have a nation wide plan to accelerate the adoption of more flexible learning journeys for students. But how do you organize this flexibility? And what does this mean for the necessary infrastructure for institutes and on a national level? This is the part where SURF comes in. One of the main themes in different stretegic plans and programmes. Increasing attention for and efforts in organising more flexibility in HE for students. Ambition ministry of education: More flexible, customised higher education will meet the needs of a diverse student population including working adults and benefit some of the young people coming from secondary education too. Digitalisation in particular presents many opportunities for this
- SURF is executing a large project to facilitate and stimulate student mobility using technology for enhanced flexibility. Three years ago, we started with this project by interviewing students. With simple questions like: "if you want to subscribe to a course from an another institution then your home institution, what are the steps you should undertake and did that work for you?" We learned that a big percentage of students start enthusiast to find courses at other institutes which suites them, but the actual number of students who really actually follows this course at another institute is really low. Why? There are too many steps, exchange of data is still done by hand. Yes, students need to travel between institutes, no clear overview on courses to follow etc. And if you look at the emotions in the picture there are not much smiling emoticons.
- Students said: We need to solve these problems The student wants an overview of courses from all institutions in one place The student wants all information such as timetables, progress in one place. The student wants to log in and register easily and securely with one identity at each educational institution The student wants proof of achieved learning outcomes with digital certificates.
- Therefore SURF is developing new technology for enhanced flexibility in education, which consists of 4 components: The Open Education API Standard The OOAPI Gateway eduID EDUbadges Let’s take a moment to take a closer look to these 4.
- What is the Open Education API?
- Well, to summarize: The Open Education API is an open standard to make educational data available. So, why is this important? Well, Educational data is traditionally locked up in 'silos’. Exchanging this data and making it interchangeable is generally not something that the source systems that provide this data are good at. The aim of the Open Education API specification is to standardize the information exchange from institutions using this API. This will allow application builders to work with a well defined endpoints that makes it easier to create apps that consume this educational data.
- Think of educational data source systems such as an SIS, a timetable application, etc. Actors in this process are educational institutions, students, potential aggregators of information, information systems within the institutions. For example these usecases: Provide a student rostering information on a mobile Provide a students their grade in a portal Provide course information in a course catalog to a student
- The OOAPI-Gateway ensures that educational data can be be exchanged. It is important for institutions to be able to access data easily and uniformly. The OOAPI-Gateway makes it possible for the associated institutions to securely make educational data available to data consumers via the open education api.
- By linking up to the OOAPI-Gateway, an educational institution only needs to open up its educational data once and it can then be passed on to various facilities. One example of such a facility is an education catalogue that offers courses from a number of educational institutions. The OOAPI-Gateway ensures that data is delivered uniformly and reliably to the purchasing facility and that access to the data from each educational institution is secure.
- The next step is for students to use their identity (eduID) to sign in at the guest institution to enroll for a course. Students give their consent to transfer the necessary data from the home institution to the guest institution.
- An eduID is a life long usable identity for learners, that is fully under the control of the user. It respects GDPR and it can be enriched with attributes from, for instance, your educational institution.
- Another SURF project that contributes to more flexible education is edubadges. Edubadges are digital certificates which show that the owner has acquired certain skills or knowledge. Edubadges can be issued for both accredited education and for extracurricular activities. The Edubadges service is the digital certificates platform, using the open badge standard, that enables all Dutch higher education institutions to award students or workers with evidence of knowledge and skills they have acquired. Students expect convenience and freedom of choice to study what they want, where they want, in their own time and at their own pace. Not just during their studies, but afterwards too. By issuing Edubadges we offer them the flexibility they are looking for.
- There are several stakeholders involved in the process of using edubadges: The institution, the student and the external party, like a future employer.
- This is due to the fact that the institutions that we serve, have different use-cases and are differently organized. They also would like to be in control of the structure and permissions of their users, without our interaction. So we added an additional structure layer: the issuer group and added a more granular roles and permissions model.
- We have added a lot of improvements and functionalities to the edubadges platform, but one important addition I would like to point out: we added 10 metadata extension to the issuer and badgeclass metadata to comply with the Bologna tools like the diploma supplement.
- The Open Education API, the OOAPI-Gateway, eduID and Edubadges will provide a more flexible and transparent approach to curriculum and grading for all learners.
- With the European Committee we also urge for a stronger focus on studentmobility. Not only within their Erasmus programme, but also in their European Universities ambition. Within these networks of universities the ambition is that students can easily follow courses from other European Universities, without the hassle of administration, and all the paper work. Several European Universities Consortia contacted SURF if they could use (parts) of our infrastructure. At this moment we are researching if and how we can to this. But we see that our level of playing field is expanding! So lets combine the waves and support students in their learning journey across the nation and Europe. Question: Offering more flexibility to students, is that something which you see happening in your country