HE ADMINISTRATION
Lightning talks
Harald Gilch, HIS-HE
- Student mobility in Germany in general is really high, but there are challenges between German universities
- Fully digital administration is a shared goal in Germany.
- International examples of execution from UNIT in Norway (contribution to EMREX), DUO in the Netherlands and Estonia. National initiatives identified as highly important.
- Xhochschule in Germany (XHIEIE)
- There is no standardized data model for student information in Germany
Guido Bacharach
IT-based continuos innovation and research in German university admissions
- There is ongoing work on Edu-API
- European data model for achieved learning outcomes => Europass Learning Model (ELM)
- ELM available at https://github.com/european-commission-europass/Europass-Learning-Model
- ELM, digital credentials, is part of the European Data Strategy
- ELM has also been adopted by European Blockchain Partneship, a joint partnership between all EU Member States and European Commission (It’s the Data Model adopted in the Europan Blockchain Service Infrastcruture - EBSI, Diploma Use Case)
- Do we need a national point for student records to build a European network or we can do it by connecting individual Universities?
9:30 am - 10:00 am
PARTNER PLENARY 2: INNOVATING IN EXTREME CIRCUMSTANCES – HOW ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY RESPONDED TO THE COVID CRISIS
Rachel Wright
- At the start of the pandemic student support contacted the students daily, twice a week or weekly, depending what the student wanted.
- Also new teams formed for residential services, catering, compliance, international support...
- Real-time situational information on how many at campus, how many self-isolated, how many had covid. Form created for students to inform if they were unwell
10:00 am - 10:30 am
INVITED SPEAKER 3: SMALL THINGS THAT MAKE BIG DIFFERENCES: COVID-19 RESPONSE THROUGH STUDENT EYES
Robert Allison
Matt Youngs
10:30 am - 10:45 am
BREAK/CHANGEOVER TIME
10:45 am - 11:00 am
PARTNER SPOTLIGHT 3: LEARNING, TEACHING AND THE POWER OF A CONNECTED STUDENT EXPERIENCE
Eva Kohl
11:00 am - 11:45 am
INVITED SPEAKER 4: RESEARCH AND EDUCATION NETWORKS SUPPORTING HE DURING THE PANDEMIC
Gyöngyi Horváth
- GEANT Innovation Programme: https://www.geant.org/Innovation/Pages/Innovation-Programme.aspx
- Wiki page for Educational Services Task Force: https://wiki.geant.org/x/qzpwBg
- Free event by Géant: Thursday, 17 June our annual TF-EDU event, addressing issues of how NRENs can support education for universities and the future vision of education with keynote speaker Jet de Ranitz from SURF (The Netherlands): https://events.geant.org/event/653/
Krzysztof Kurowski, Pionier (NREN in Poland)
- PSNC, in addition to being an NREN, is also a supercomputing center in Poland
- PSNC also provides labs as core services, such as cloud service laboratory, regional "living labs", etc.
Dragana Kupres, Carnet, Croatia
- All services are covered by national funding; no fees for the institutions
- More than 70 services. For HEIs the largest service is a Moodle based platform, others include connectivity services etc.
Victoriano Giralt
- User perspective on NRENs
- Universities were in a good position to respond to the changes required by the pandemic.
- Eduroam essential
The University IT departments know better what educational services (beyond connectivity) are needed and the specific requirements and information systems for such services. In several European countries, additional services are designed and implemented by the Universities themselves and/or University Associations established for designing and developing such additional services by the "University/Users" themselves, since they know their own needs best! In such cases, should the NREN focus on providing the basic services (e.g.,connectivity and computing infrastructure) and leave educational services to Universities/University Associations?
Should NRENs provide the services, or Universities?
- Depends on the case. NRENs rarely decide on their own, but in collaboration with the universities. Connectivity services are a niche, that require collaboration.
- Europe is very varied in terms of what NRENs are offering in their countries and also how they support their educational institutions. In most cases they are in very close contact with the university IT departments to ensure that there is collaboration on what their NREN should work on and what they should provide as support.
- NRENs and universities can be seen as a continuum
11:45 am - 12:15 pm
INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSES TO THE PANDEMIC
Aigars Zupa, Riga Stradins University
Covid-19 as an Accelerator for Digital Transformation at Riga Stradins University (#37) Abstract
- There were many paper based processes, and not all were skilled at using Moodle, ZOOM, etc.
Vasiliki Kalfa, IT Center – Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Coping with the COVID-19 challenges in a comprehensive university: learning tools and procedures adopted by Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (#44) Abstract
Konstantinos Tsibanis, Pantelis Balaouras, University of Athens, Greece
Emergency Remote Teaching and Online Exams at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens during the COVID-19 Pandemic (#53) Abstract
Lessons learned?
- Distance learning study programmes came to stay.
- Pedagogical methodologies have developed.
- ZOOM-Moodle collaboration for a more user friendly experience for the users
- Teaching methods have changed, but this change is slow
- Digital readiness was there, but difficulties came about due to lack of skills
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm
PARTNER SPOTLIGHT 4: DMS – UNITRON SIS
John Tsialtas
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
MARKETPLACE AND TAVERNA
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm
ID MANAGEMENT
Francisco José Aragó-Monzonís, Gumbau Mezquita Universitat Jaume I
SEAL Project: enabling identity reconciliation and self-sovereign data management (#10) Abstract
- Partnering institutions from Spain and Portugal
- Goal to propose a framework for in person verification service interaction
- User creates a virtual single identity
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
INTEROPERABILITY ACROSS THE EU
Hermann Strack, Harz University of Applied Sciences & Ramona-Denisa Steiper, Georg-August Universität Göttingen
Progress on Digitization of Higher Education Processes towards Standards EU & DE (#15) Abstract
Janina Mincer-Daszkiewicz, University of Warsaw
Erasmus Without Paper Network getting ready for the new Erasmus+ Programme (#22) Abstract
Tor Fridell, The Ladok Consortium, The EMREX-network – how to achieve both horizontal and vertical growth (#33) Abstract
Ola Ljungkrona, The Ladok Consortium
A fish in your ear: making sense of European higher education with Edu-API (#40) Abstract
Tallenne: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9LibkVb05E&feature=youtu.be
- Edu-API use in LADOK.
- Integration infrastructure
- EduAPI will be the core information exchange model in the future
- Would this still require cementing the semantics behind the data even if the format is the same?
- Semantic versioning being discussed? → yes.
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm
IT CULTURE & VALUE
Thomas Eifert
Anne Thoring
4:15 pm - 4:45 p
PARTNER PLENARY 3: DEMYSTIFYING DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION – THE BUSINESS IMPACT OF HAVING A UNIFIED STUDENT EXPERIENCE
Julio Villalobos
Patrik Maltusch
Marcelle Porteous
- Salesforce Customer Stories - https://sfdc.co/HdGZO
- Maltusch: Business and Dynamic Change - The Arrival of Business Architecture - https://bit.ly/2R8SAz4
From Andy Holohan to Everyone: 05:47 PM
Find an Education Consulting Partner - International - https://sfdc.co/chlFc1 How to Choose a Salesforce Consulting Partner - https://sfdc.co/bdhBjp Check a Potential Partner’s Certifications - AppExchange Consultant Listings - https://sfdc.co/bllSMt Successfully Implement with Salesforce Partners - https://sfdc.co/cfxIEY Trailhead - Find Success with Your Implementation Partner - https://sfdc.co/btGyAO
16.6.2021 Salesforce Education Summit, http://sfdc.co/summit-21 (https://www.salesforce.org/events/education-summit-2021/)
Join Education Summit, June 16, 2021 - https://sfdc.co/nHPTD IDC Report - The Future of Higher Education - https://sfdc.co/bAtahm 5 Things Universities Can Do Now to Digitally Transform - https://sfdc.co/cjvU6N Salesforce Education Cloud - Unlock the Education Cloud - https://sfdc.co/ber4qs
5:00 pm - 5:30 pm DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION 3
James Clay, JISC
Malte Dreyer
More info here https://www.jisc.ac.uk/higher-education
Kuvat: https://www.eunis.org/eunis2021/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2021/06/10_17.00-Digital-Transformation3-13-Clay.pdf ja https://www.eunis.org/eunis2021/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2021/06/10_17.00-Digital-Transformation3-19-DreyerBierwirth.pdf
5:30 pm - 6:00 pm
INVITED SPEAKER 5: THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE OF US INSTITUTIONS FOLLOWING COVID 19
Michael Zastrocky
6:00 pm - 6:30 pm
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION 4
Michael Zastrocky
James Clay
Pekka Kähkipuro
Malte Dreyer
Paula Nottingham
Marit Barstad
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EUNIS AWARDS AND SOCIAL
Best paper award for: Suvi Valsta, Tuija Marstio , Virve Pekkarinen , Anssi Mattila from Laurea
