1. Specifications vs Standards: the adoption dilemma
"Standards come through adoption”
D. Moldoff, Academy One (Rome workshop, Nov.9th 2007)

2. “all roads lead start from Rome”
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)
Recommendations
Permanent Observatory
Delegation of Experts to CEN
Promote technical subgroups

3. Market attention … new kid on the block Reports
PESC
Academy One
Gartner
CEN (European Committee for Standardization)
MLO (Metadata for Learning Opportunity)
NWI (New Work Item) on European Learner Mobility

4. Actions on the Recommendations
… The Road to Dublin
Actions on the Recommendations
Permanent Observatory
Report on MLO activities
2° workshops
Delegation of experts to CEN
Done – 3 representatives
Bruxelles and Paris meeting
Promote Technical subgroups
Glossary (considered also at MLO level)
Business Cases – to be fed to MLO

5. Standardization authorities i.e. CEN
Dublin Worshop
Sharing Perspectives for the Rapid Development of Standards for Course Description and Curriculum Data
2 “standard” perspectives:
Implementers i.e. R3SG
Standardization authorities i.e. CEN

6. Building momentum European workshop, 25th April 2008 in Dublin
Sharing Perspectives for the Rapid Development of Standards for Course Description and Curriculum Data
37 participants from 11 countries
2 “standard” perspectives – implementers vs. standardization authorities
Business Cases: the need for standardization
Focus Areas
Graduation Documents (Diploma Supplement)
European Learner Mobility (EUROPASS)
Course Unit Description
Course equivalencies

7. The opportunities for standards
Course Description
Academic Offer Validation
Course Advertising
Mediated Application
Course Unit
Curriculum Description
Exchange Mobility
Transfer Mobility
Graduation Documents
Employment
Student Observatory
STUDY PROGRAMMES & COURSE UNITS CATALOGUE
LEARNING AGREEMENT
TRANSCRIPT OF RECORDS
STUDY PROGRAMME DETAILS
DIPLOMA SUPPLEMENT
COURSE UNIT DETAILS
CURRICULUM VITAE

8. Academic Offer Validation
Course Advertising
Mediated Application
Course
Unit
Exchange Mobility
Transfer Mobility
Graduation Documents
Employment
Business Cases Flow
Student Observatory

9. 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

10. Principles agreed by the group
Manage diversity
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
Use pilot implementations and feedback from users to advance standards activity
Publicise the work of the group as possible with keynotes at major conferences
Generally use of pointers is better than transfer of data, where appropriate

11. Destination Stuttgart
“Growing pains” - from group to organization
Visibility and Proliferation of workshop results
EUNIS (RS3G mentioned in 4 presentation)
EAIE 2008 (Antwerp) – RS3G invited to host a workshop on Digital Student Data Portability at EAIE 2009 (Madrid)
CEN experts delegation
Active on MLO (standard in the making)
Expert pool for European Learners Mobiliyt
Adoption “scout” (PLOTEUS)
Euro AFI project (University of Stuttgart)
Liason with Terena, EUNIS, CEN, NEC (National Europass Centers)

12. Specifications vs Standards: the adoption dilemma
"Standards come through adoption”
D. Moldoff, Academy One (Rome workshop)