This session consists of four presentations.
Featured Speakers
Nadža Milanović, University of Zagreb:
Building an Information System for Higher Education Register in Croatia #14
Higher education in Croatia lacks a register of students, teachers and diplomas that would enable accurate and easy reporting, data analysis and tracking of developments and trends. The register should also enable other informed decision-making and the creation of policies and measures based on the evidence. Building such a register started in the middle of 2022 and should last for three and a half years. In this paper, we describe the objectives that drive the project, list major information systems recognised as the primary data sources for the Register, and provide basic concepts covered during the system design.
Download the presentation
Anne Kathrine Haugen, Sikt
Geir Vangen, Sikt:
Building a national education registry in Norway #22
Norway has currently no digital solution for verifying accreditation. This is a challenge as most higher education institutions in Norway are self-accredited rather than being accredited by a central authority. The aim of a new national education register is to provide a platform for generating and assigning unique identity to education and tamper-proof storage of educational information and the formal accreditation of the education. It shall contribute to quality assurance that education offered is accredited, and facilitate the use of data for analysis, management, research, and statistical preparation.
Download the presentation
Alexander Knoth, Deloitte
Kathleen Clancy, DAAD
Ulricke Lucke, University of Potsdam:
A Distributed Infrastructure for Secure Diplomas: Proof of Concept and First Experiences #32
Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are being confronted with a growing number of student applications. This is associated with the verification of documents, which in the case of university entrance qualifications is becoming increasingly complex and error-prone in view of the diversifying education system. Various solutions to this problem have already been proposed, but due to technical, organisational, legal or financial problems, they have not yet found widespread use. Against this background, this article presents an approach that integrates existing methods and services for digital signatures into a national infrastructure for education and connects them to existing information systems in schools to issue digital diplomas and verify them in HEI application processes. The article describes a technical solution and experiences from a proof-of-concept. First recommendations are given and an outlook illustrates how the upcoming broad field test will be conducted.
Download the presentation – coming soon
Xavi Aracil, 1EdTech
What’s next for Open Badges and Digital Credentials?
Open Badges have gained momentum in the last years for displaying learner’s achievements. A recent study has revealed an increase of 172% in the number of available Open Badges and 211% in issued badges in the last four years. Find out how the new version of Open Badges 3.0, as well as Comprehensive Learner Record 2.0, fits in the current digital credential ecosystem, allowing learners to collect and share their credentials in a machine readable, privacy respecting and tamper evident way.
Download the presentation
