Title: FINDING THE BALANCE - the role of NRENs to support education
The intention of this meeting is to collectively and individually reflect on the role of NRENs in supporting education, taking into account:
- our experiences related to lockdown and online transitioning to working and studying from home and
- looking at the immediate future (3-6 months from now) and deciding on the next steps.
The aim of the mini-conference is to create the space for collective and self reflection, learning from the past few months while looking at the future, hopefully finding the balance between newly discovered solutions and obsolete practices. In doing that we will look for:
- newly discovered processes, goals, tools and needs that we value and want to take with us in to the future;
- the obsolete or obstacle-creating practices that we are willing to let go
- looking at the long term impact on NRENs supporting remote education
IMPORTANT: We are inviting you to co-create of the agenda, by proposing:
- Lightning talks (5 min, 1-2 slides)
- Open topics for conversations that you would love to host (20 min)
You can submit your topics / lightning talks no later than 5th of June, noon, by adding your proposal to: https://wiki.geant.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=148080408
If you have some technical issues, please send your submission to tf-edu-sc@lists.geant.org
Requirement for submission:
All submission should be in line of the area of educational activities, services and technologies.
Submitters should be prepared to present / host during the virtual mini conference: facilitate discussions, prepare to summarize it (E.g. some notes as conclusions, outcomes and / or follow up points).
VC details
Registration
https://eventr.geant.org/events/3323
Agenda
Tuesday, 9 June 2020
Timing (CEST) | Topic / Talk | Description | ||
Session title: Lobby and plenary | ||||
10:30 - 11:00 (20’) | Lobby: Preparation, come and meet the organisers over a cup of coffee and test your audio and video | |||
11:00-11:10 (‘10) | Short introduction and welcome Host: Gyongyi Horvath I. Announce the agenda II. Set the rules and introductions III. Announce - Expected outcomes and conclusions | Setting the expectations - workshop and agenda description. | ||
11:10-11:55 (‘45) | “Plenary”: Role of NRENs for education Welcome: Erik Huizer, CEO, GÉANT World Bank UNESCO Survey results from NRENs educational activities and services | Presentation and discussion. | ||
| 11:55-12:05 ('10) | Really short break | |||
| Session title: Community sessions | ||||
12:05-12:15 ('10) | Announce the community sessions and the rules | |||
| 12:15-13:00 ('45) | Session 1: Trust and Identity Questions to explore:
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| 13:00-14:00 ('60) | Lunch break | |||
| 14:00-14:10 ('10) | Welcome back. Introduction to the 2nd part of the conference. Announce the parallel sessions and the rules Outcomes: overview of the services, tools for services, how are they procured/licences, timing (short-term, long-term) | |||
| 14:10-14:55 ('45) | Session 1: Tools (SIG-MM host) | Session 2: What’s in it for me? (Procurement / licenses / NREN services). Hosted by members of SIG-Managing Service Portfolios. This interactive session will describe the existing frameworks and solutions in place (both Commercial and Community based). We will also share common challenges and interest areas with the objective of finding some concrete next steps to be followed towards how we procure and use collaboration tools, LMS, video conferencing in the future to support our Education community. Relevant community experts will be in attendance to answer all your questions….at the very least your “What’s in it for me?” question! Session agenda
| Session 3: | Session 4: Online and blended learning (e.g. Digital assessment) (TF-EDU host Nathalie Roth) Bernard Cerutti, UNIGE: Examples of exam formats and contents switching paradigm at the University of Geneva Urgent public health requirements measures taken by the national and local Swiss authorities in response to the Coid-19 pandemic have significantly impacted the organisation of the exams at the University of Geneva. While the general setting has been defined by the chancellor, the different faculties were quite independent regarding the changes to be implemented. Some practical situations will be presented. Jon Eliot Stromme, UNIT: Cooperation as key to successful Corona-time exams In Norway, university exam administrators took in stride the massive relocation of exams from central locations to students' homes. Cooperation and mutual support between institutions were key to the success. Several factors enabled the cooperation. A large part of the exams was already digitised. Universities and students had the necessary digital experience. Private and public universities and colleges had been working with digital exams on a national level for years - active working groups and forums already existed. UNIT, acting as national coordinator, chose to concentrate on generic risk assessment and a very simple common information exchange. This mode of work was effective within the strained resources of the universities and colleges, adding to the existing optimism, a "we can do it" attitude, and a lot of answers to large and small questions being found rapidly. Open discussion and questions |
| 14ø55-15:05 ('10) | Really short break | |||
| Session title: Summary and wrap up | ||||
| 15:05-15:25 ('20) | Sessions’ summary 5’ each = 20 Session hosts | |||
| 15:25-16:00 ('35) | Outcomes and conclusions (wrap up): What are we taking with us in to the future (document link) | |||