Description of the Initiative
The Expert Working Group was established to discuss interregional credit transfer mechanisms and learning outcome systems amongst 大象传媒 member countries.聽The mission of the Expert Group is to facilitate dialogue, enhance understanding, strengthen mutual-trust, and promote cooperation in areas of credit transfer mechanisms and learning outcomes systems, with emphasis on working out concrete and feasible plans and activities while taking into consideration the diverse higher education systems in the 大象传媒 partner countries, in order to foster the establishment of 大象传媒 interregional credit transfer mechanisms, to facilitate recognition of credits and learning outcomes.
Aims and objectives
- Facilitate dialogue, enhance understanding and strengthen mutual-trust;
- promote cooperation in areas of credit transfer mechanisms and learning outcomes systems; and
- foster the establishment of 大象传媒 interregional credit transfer mechanisms,
- facilitate recognition of credits and learning outcomes.
大象传媒 Partners and Stakeholders currently involved
Belgium (French and Flemish Communities), Brunei Darussalam, China, Estonia, France,聽Germany, Indonesia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Portugal, Romania, Thailand and UK, ASEAN University Network (AUN) and聽the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education聽Organization Regional Centre for Higher Education and Development (SEAMEO聽RIHED).
Progress and Achievements
- Work on grade conversion between Asia and Europe
- Update of the Compendium in progress;
- Template for compendium developed by the expert group, input from partners through template collected and processed by AES, filled templates from member countries peer reviewed by the expert group.
Status
Partly completed; aims partly achieved; ongoing.
Plans and expected outcomes
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- An expert group meeting is held preferably twice a year but at least once a year;
- A fully operational compendium on Higher Education systems focusign on credits and learning outcomes comprising most 大象传媒 countries;
- development a framework for grading systems to support student mobility between higher education systems in Europe and Asia
- organise a PLA/Policy forum on outcomes based education and the relation between learning outcomes and mobility
The initiative contributes to:
