1. 5 th Annual Conference on Technology & Standards April 28 – 30, 2008 Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill www.PESC.org European Initiatives and Impacts on the U.S. James Farmer, Georgetown University Randy Timmons, Sigma Systems Inc.

2. 5 th Annual Conference on Technology & Standards An opinion The emerging software from European software suppliers supporting higher education academic processes will dominate the American—U.S. and Canada—market beginning in 2012. And this software will be based on developments originally from the U.S.

3. 5 th Annual Conference on Technology & Standards R3SG Rome Student Systems and Standards Group A close collaboration of emerging European software suppliers that will transform the academic processes of colleges and universities in support of the Bologna process and concurrent innovations.

4. 5 th Annual Conference on Technology & Standards The Bologna Process A demand from students to be able to transfer from one university to another retaining credit for previous work. Mobility: The Bologna Process assumes a student will take a course at another institution and return. There is pre-agreement between the two faculties. Transfer: The Bologna Process supports articulation by getting a guaranty of transferability.

5. 5 th Annual Conference on Technology & Standards The companies unisolutions from Germany (with U.S. clients) Kion from Italy (with a U.S. educated executive) Digitary from Dublin (PKI that works) Hochschul Information Systems GmbH (dominant in the Germany market) and JISC (UK) funded XCRI projects

6. 5 th Annual Conference on Technology & Standards The CEN standard European Committee for Standardization Standards often mandated by the European Commission –National standardization efforts must terminate –Products and services must comply with the standard Likely in “modules” beginning in 2010, but implemented beginning in 2008

7. 5 th Annual Conference on Technology & Standards CDM Principles The standard must: –Support prioritized needed functionality –Be consistent with existing standards, especially HR-XML –Be modular so that implementation can begin immediately. Be collaboratively developed with software suppliers to achieve benefits for universities and profitability for suppliers.

8. 5 th Annual Conference on Technology & Standards PESC interests Interoperability Transformable (by XSLT) between EU and PESC standards ? Support real-time data exchanges between universities and colleges (e.g. EA2 recommendations)

9. 5 th Annual Conference on Technology & Standards Acronyms AACRAO – American Assocation of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers NACE – National Association of Colleges and Employers NAFSA – Association of International Educators (National Association of Foreign Student Advisors)

10. 5 th Annual Conference on Technology & Standards Acronyms EU – “The European Union (EU) is a political and economic community of twenty-seven member states, located primarily in Europe. (Wikipedia) EHEA – European Higher Education Area consists of 46 countries agreeing on common academic processes. ECTS - European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS) is a standard for comparing the study attainment and performance of students of higher education across the European Union and other collaborating European countries. (Wikipedia)

11. 5 th Annual Conference on Technology & Standards U.S. Interests NAFSA/AACRAO –U.S. students taking courses in the European Higher Education Area –Foreign students taking courses in the U.S. for transfer credit NACE/U.S. Department of Labor –Students seeking employment (HR-XML)

12. 5 th Annual Conference on Technology & Standards THE END Jim Farmer - jxf at immagic.com