Transnational Education (TNE) is an area of significant growth across the globe, providing education developed in one country and delivered in another. Whilst the principles and reasons for engaging in TNE tend to be relatively consistent, the area presents many challenges including variance of national education systems and the changing political climate, the diverse models of TNE delivery and fundamentally, the technology to support and access such education systems between both sending and receiving countries.
The main aims of the SIG-TNE:
To provide a forum for gathering and exchanging experiences, ideas and knowledge on supporting transnational education nationally;
- To identify and address common challenges in supporting TNE, such as the development of sustainable business models, overseas licensing and communication issues;
- To identify and develop services and service packages to support TNE globally;
- To develop a best practice guide which helps all participants in TNE from the perspectives of the host country, the ‘sending’ country, the developing NREN and the host academic institution (university, college etc)
- To provide a persuasive body of evidence for those NRENs developing support for their country to enable decision makers to resource technological support effectively; and
- To harmonise country approaches (e.g. policy for connectivity) and NREN collaboration to ‘ease’ the delivery of TNE globally.
The achievements and KPIs for the second year
| Planned achievements | KPIs | Due Date |
|---|---|---|
| Increase visibility of the SIG and support outreach to different regions | Organise 3 meetings / workshops in different parts of the world (at APAN, TNC & Internet2 Global Summitt) Publish meeting reports & blogs | August 2017 |
| Publish the TNE SIG work plan and 4 working groups based on the main areas of work | Publish the work plan Get the SIG members to sign up for one of the 4 areas of work | September 2017 |
| Support the working groups in prioritising their activities for 2018 | Schedule meetings of all 4 workstreams (VC) Set the priorities and responsibilities | End 2018 |
| Promote the SIG on a national and international level | Regular blogs and articles in national NREN communications + GÉANT communications | Ongoing |
The achievements and KPIs for the first year
| Planned achievements | KPIs | Due Date |
|---|---|---|
| TNE SIG developed critical mass and NRENs aware of presence with focus and objectives communicated | 15 NRENs ‘signed up’ to participate in SIG | July 2017 |
| Prioritised TNE SIG work plan and resource commitment for 2017-19 | Work plan with NREN leads identified | July 2017 |
| Understand national TNE data and gaps, and national policies for connection | ‘Mapping’ of country data more clearly understood enabling NREN-NREN collaboration in supporting TNE Consideration of development of a global connectivity policy to support TNE National NRENs enabled and equipped to develop better data collection within country | moved to 2018 - this work will be taken by working group 1 |
| Produce ‘global tech toolkit’ for NRENs and support development of national toolkits, including connectivity map (based on #3 above and the Jisc TNE Tech Toolkit) | Toolkit for NRENs globally, whether sending, receiving or developing, jointly developed from national in-country knowledge | moved to 2018 - this work will be taken by working group 4 |
| Joint communications activities to promote GÉANT TNE work | Case studies to demonstrate different types of TNE support Articles in GÉANT communications and national NREN communications | End 2017 |
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Facts
This is the second year of SIG-TNE.
First year: February 2017 - February 2018
The charter of the SIG-TNE was approved on 24 February 2017 by the GCC.
The SIG-TNE is jointly led by its Steering Committee
- Esther Wilkinson, Jisc (Chair)
- William Wan, CERNET
- Urszula Chomicka, Internet2
- Alexander van den Hil, SURFnet
- Claudio Allocchio, GARR
- Sigita Jurkynaitė, GÉANT (Secretary)
Next Events
SIG-TNE meeting in 2018:
APAN45, 25-29 March, Singapore (meeting)Transnational Education: GÉANT Special Interest Group meeting, 09.00-10.30, Wednesday 28 March 2018, https://apan.net/meetings/apan45/session.php?id=36
meetings in 2018:
- Internet2 Global Summit, 2-9 May, San Diego, USA (workshop)
Transnational Education Special Interest Group, Tuesday 8 May 2018, 16.30-18.00, https://meetings.internet2.edu/2018-global-summit/detail/10005053/
- TNC18, 10-14 June, Trondheim, Norway (meeting)
SIG-TNE | Cool edges of global education, 09.00-12.30, Thursday 4 June, https://tnc18.geant.org/core/event/53
