General Information

The workshop was held on Monday, January 29th, 2001 (the day before the LearnTEC 2001) at the Centre for Distance and Open Learning (FSZ) University Karlsruhe (TH) More details on the Workshop can be found in the Report on Deliverable D8.6.

Goal

Working out a general approach of mutual recognition of courses based on the ECTS scheme

One of the goals of the EU-IST project CUBER is to support the mutual recognition of courses among European universities. It will propose methods and mechanisms that go beyond the present day credit transfer systems that are based on individual agreements for each individual student.

But the knowledge about credit point systems (CPS), in particular the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS), is often not jet sufficiently advanced.

This workshop did promote

• a deeper understanding of ECTS and CPS in general,
• CPS issues and problems relating to the CUBER project in particular,
• to enable use and exploitation of this knowledge within and outside the CUBER consortium.

Programme

Chair: Prof. Jörg Keller (CUBER project WP9 / FernUniversität Hagen)

Morning session, 10 am to 1 pm: For CUBER partners only

• Introduction to CPS and ECTS
• Efficiency of ECTS
• Which facts have to be checked for acknowledgement of a course?
• Formation of a common position within the CUBER project: Which consequences have to be drawn for the metadata model and the (semi-) automatic acknowledgement of courses?

Afternoon session, 2 pm to 6 pm: CUBER meets representatives of other projects and institutions

• Experiences using the ECTS in different countries and contexts
• Requirements to integrate the ECTS into the CUBER system and further development
• Discussion