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 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 | End 2017 |
| 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 | End 2017 |
| 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 | Ongoing |
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