CETIS

HEAR

TechnicalScott Wilson

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3 key areas for success

• Standards

• Vendor engagement and commitment

• Community support

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1. Standards

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Deliverables

• Business cases and business models

• Architecture options for sharing and verifying the HEAR

• Information model and XML schema

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Coordination with europe

• Converging HEAR with European standards for Diploma Supplement and ECTS– CEN/ISSS TC 353– Work Item “Learner Mobility Model”– Engagement by CEDEFOP, CETIS,

vendors

• Groundwork already laid: MLO standard

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Coordination with suppliers

• Working with Digitary on identifying architecture options for use of Advanced Electronic Signatures and tamper-evident records

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Coordination with other UK agencies

• MIAP– Mapping HEAR specifications to MIAP

Learner Record

• HESA– Mapping HEAR specifications to HESA

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• ISB – Coordination with PLOT SIG at ISB

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What you can do for us

• Tell us what you want to achieve with the HEAR

• Show us examples of the reports you want to create

• Tell us about your business models and partnerships for the HEAR

• Tell us which systems and suppliers you are working with

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2. Suppliers

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Supplier engagement and commitment

• RS3G is an existing community in Europe for suppliers of HE student systems interested in standards

• CETIS has been involved with RS3G since its inception

• RS3G has already indicated that graduate documents are a key area

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What’s next

• RS3G working meeting in December focused on technical standards for Diploma Supplement

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What you can do for us

• Tell us who your suppliers are and we’ll work on getting them into this network– Oracle/Peoplesoft, Aggresso already active

members

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3. Community

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Where are the technical experts?

• Most of them already work in your institutions– Registry– MIS– IT Services

• Others are working for your suppliers– MIS, SRS, HR…

• A few work for us ;-)

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Our approach

• Provide opportunities for community self-support

• Connecting communities with standards bodies, external agencies, vendor consortia

• Strategic interventions: publications, events