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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.

The GÉANT SIG–TNE is a forum for interchanging knowledge and experiences on Transnational Education (TNE).

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 Third 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 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
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

Facts

This is the third year of SIG-TNE.

Started in February 2017.

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)
Bella Gao, CERNET
Xiaodong Fu, CERNET
John Chapman, Internet2
Claudio Allocchio, GARR
Gyöngyi Horváth, GÉANT (Coordinator)
Dragana Kupres, CARNet (Coordinator)

Next Events

2019