GÉANT Special Interest Groups (SIGs) are established under the auspices of GÉANT in order to create an open forum where experts from its community exchange information, knowledge, ideas and best practices about specific technical or other areas of business relevant to the research and education networking community.
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: |
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To provide a forum for gathering and exchanging experiences, ideas and knowledge on supporting transnational education nationally |
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To identify and address common challenges in supporting TNE, such as the development of sustainable business models, overseas licensing and communication issues |
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To identify and develop services and service packages to support TNE globally |
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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 |
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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 Third year
| Planned achievements | KPIs | Due Date |
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| Increase visibility of the SIG and support outreach to different regions | Organise 3 meetings / workshops in different parts of the world (at APAN47, TNC19 & Internet2 TechX2019) Publish meeting reports & blogs | December 2019 |
| Promote and pursue the TNE SIG work plan and 4 working groups based on the main areas of work | Promote and pursue the work plan Get the SIG members to sign up for one of the 4 areas of work | September 2019 |
| Support the working groups in prioritising their activities for 2019 | Schedule meetings of all 4 workstreams (VC) Set the priorities and responsibilities | End 2019 |
| 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 second year
| Planned achievements | KPIs | Due Date |
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| 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 Summit) 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 |
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| 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 |
End 2017 |
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Facts
This is the first third year of SIG-TNE.First year
: February 2017 - February 2018Started in February 2017 and was closed in October 2020.
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 Jisc (Chair)
- William Wan, CERNET
- Urszula Chomicka, Internet2
- Alexander van den Hil, SURFnet
- Bella Gao, CERNET
- Xiaodong Fu, CERNET
- John Chapman, Internet2
- Claudio Allocchio, GARR
- Angus Griffin, AARnet
- Gyöngyi Horváth, GÉANT (Coordinator)
- Dragana Kupres, CARNet (CoordinatorSigita Jurkynaitė, GÉANT (Secretary)
Next Events
The next event will take place at the Internet2 Global Summit in Washington DC, USA.
Defining the Challenges of International Education workshop will be dedicated for defining the key challenges for four specific audiences, from the perspectives of 'sending' NRENs, recipient NRENs, emerging NRENs and University staff.
During this meeting, the community will prepare for the first SIG-TNE meeting, to take place in May 2017.
The first SIG-TNE meeting will take place on 31 May 2017 during the TNC17 conference.
During this meeting the challenges, identified at the previous workshop will be addressed. The aim of the meeting will also to identify more NRENs that would benefit from a collaborative approach and guidance from the wider NREN community.
2019
- APAN47 (Thursday, 21 February 09:00-10:30 in Room 102) Daejeon, South Korea
https://apan.net/meetings/apan47/activity.php?id=49#sn1 - TNC19 (Wednesday, 19 June 2019 18:00-20:00) Tallinn, Estonia https://tnc19.geant.org/events/#s125