Madrid (@EAIE) 16/09/09
Empowering student mobility: digital student data portability Wednesday 16 September 09.00–17.00
RS3G is taking up on the offer by EAIE to chair a workshop on "Digital Student Data Portability" in occasion of the EAIE Conference 2009 to be held in Madrid on September 16-19th 2009.
Abstract:
Students are increasingly more mobile. Along with them travel data about themselves , their educational results and their compentences. This information flows in many directions and formats , and can be stored in different repositories. Mobility today means much more than the traditional student exchange between home and host institution; the advent of ever more powerful and comprehensive student data systems , and the proliferation of different student data stakeholders create the “supply” and “demand” sides of a new global market for Digital Student Data Portability. Technologically speaking, it is nowadays possible to think of exchanging digital student data in much more reliable, structured and efficient ways. This workshop will explore the many-faceted dimensions of Digital Student Data Portability in a truly international showcase of experiences that are already in place today in the EU, the USA, South Africa and APAC : Data definition, data flows, and data storage discussions will be overlayed with insights on available tools, known technical issues and possible future solutions. The workshop also aims at eliciting further inputs for future focus areas, and calls out for active participation in one of the already established international workgroups, such as the Rome Student Systems and Standards Group(RS3G), among others.
Chair: Simone Ravaioli, KION SpA (RS3G), Italy
Speaker: Yvonne Shapiro, South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA), South Africa
Speaker: Thomas Black, Stanford University, USA
Speaker: Elizabeth Jones, QualSearch, Australia
