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1 Erasmus Without Papers Systems support for Student Mobility Geir Magne Vangen USIT, University of Oslo 1

3 To Manage Student Mobility What kind of challenges are we talking about? How do we meet these challenges? Effective process

4 More efficient processes Many central processes have been improved during the last 20 years Admission, Registration, Exam etc. 4

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6 To Manage Student Mobility Local processes Need for common procedures System support Common procedures across institutions Common procedures across borders? Nobody shall tell me how to manage my work Or should they?

7 Student Information Systems Where does SIS come into the picture? Student mobility concerns every part of student administration SIS have to be a central part in developing system support for mobility Not necessarily a part of SIS, but at least integrated with SIS

8 Students? Where do students come into the picture?

9 Work done in Norway Two national expert groups Recognition Student exchange Common processes System support

10 Example student exchange Incoming student Nomination Student nominated by home institution through a web application Mail sent to nominated student with instructions for how to complete the application Home institution can follow up the admission process via this tool Application for study Done by student via Søknadsweb (FS-tool for handling applications) Admission Managed within FS like other types of applications Mobility module

11 Nomination

12 Nomination

13 Example student exchange Outgoing student Application for nomination Done by student via Søknadsweb Admission Managed within FS like other types of applications Mobility module 13

14 Example Recognition Described common procedures for recognition Changed FS-module for recognition External results: ELM-ready Plans for Apply for recognition via new Studentweb Common system for handling communication and process flow / case management / documents Include integration with archive system 14

15 A couple of procedures Agreements Establish new agreements Renewal of existing agreements Terminate agreements Inform about agreements Arrange for admission Students on organized exchange Students find a tempting offer for student exchange Students apply for admission at home institution Home institution nominate students Nominate student applies for admission at partner institution Partner institution admit students Recognition of learning agreement / individual study plan Students study and take exams Students return to home institution Final recognition process individual study plan Students continue study at home institution 15

16 Standardization Standardization National European (CEN) Global (ISO) Committees Standardization of student information CEN TC 353 CEN WS-LT ISO SC36 16

17 Standardization MLO and ELM Metadata for Learning Opportunities European Learner Mobility European Norms in 2011 MLO Advertising EN15982 EuroLM Achievement Information EN

18 Exchanging results? Use of ELM and MLO for exchanging results We need more than data models Formats for exchanging results XML schema for ELM/MLO Support admission and recognition process / Diploma => ELMO And support in Student information systems for this data exchange

19 European projects RS3G Mobility Project Expand id-federation

20 Nordic projects Nordforum Exchange of student achievements

21 Norwegian projects Exchange of student achievements General acceptance from the student Automatic exchange based on events Manual exchange

22 Publish results

23 Description Need for description of qualifications, programs, courses Learning outcome Learning content Work opportunities Student information system Keep track of versions of descriptions

24 Summary Common procedures Inside the university Across the universities Across borders System support for these procedures Standardize interfaces Things Take Time

25 Thank you

EMREX Supporting Student Mobility

EMREX Supporting Student Mobility CIMO 28.5.2015 Agenda Introduction to Emrex Technical solution Field trial in 2016 Field trial on the impact of enabling easy mobility on recognition of external studies