Be-Twin Project

ECTS Practical examples and

challenges

Be-TWIN: Testing a Joint ECVET-ECTS Implementation, 1st WP 2 Meeting 15

& 16.06.2009, UNICA

Be-Twin Project

A fusion

aims of ECTS

It aims to facilitate planning, delivery, evaluation, recognition and validation of qualifications and units of learning as well as student mobility

Be-Twin Project

ECTS label 2009

ECTS in Austria

Be-Twin Project

ECTS is a learner-centred system for credit accumulation and transfer based on the transparency of learning outcomes and learning processes.

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Transparency • Uncertainty how to address target audience

• Problematic perspective of websites

• Course catalogue strategic hub

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Learning outcomes I

• Designers remain locked in logic of static mediation

• Emancipation of students

• Assessment• coherence

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Learning outcomes II

• Generic skills• Lack of bridges to

qualifications frameworks

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Learning processes

• Dynamics and progression

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• peak of a mountain,

with cross in the back – ECVET

• mid-mountain on track, with different tracks visible - ECTS

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Learning processes

• Dynamics and progression

• Lack of choice and individual pathways

• Triangle of teaching, learning and assessment

• workload

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Curriculum design

• Agreement• Modularisation• interaction

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Recognition and quality assurance

• Evergreen issues

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Higher education instutitions face

• New concepts• New partnerships• Closer interaction• New dialogue

partners• Call for Greater

transparency• Need to keep

focused