Creating seamless learner experiences: Towards achieving interoperability in European University Alliances

11 pages•Published: January 13, 2025

Bettina Benzinger, Jorge Canellas Lardies, Javier Lapuente and Alexander Knoth

Abstract

To address the technological, semantical, organisational and legal challenges that currently disrupt a seamless digital teaching and learning experience in Higher Education institutions (HEIs) in Europe, incentivised through the European Commission and embedded in the European Digital Education Hub (EDEH), HE experts have come together in a community of practice to jointly develop an interoperability framework for European University Alliances (EU-A). Access to and participation in manifold digital learning opportunities is a key element of the “Virtual Campus” that is currently under development at each EU-A. The paper has four parts. Firstly, the scene will be set to shed light on interoperability challenges at EU-A. Secondly, the collaborative development approach is explained to underline the importance of an iterative methodology with a high level of community engagement that ideally develops into a sustainable community of practice. Thirdly, a view into the architects’ office illustrates the status quo of the framework development and gives an outlook on the steps to be taken until the end of the project. Finally, lessons learned are reflecting on the so far achievements and practical hurdles that need to be overcome.

Keyphrases: european university alliance, framework, higher education institution, interoperability, use cases

In: Raimund Vogl, Laurence Desnos, Jean-François Desnos, Spiros Bolis, Lazaros Merakos, Gill Ferrell, Effie Tsili and Manos Roumeliotis (editors). Proceedings of EUNIS 2024 annual congress in Athens, vol 105, pages 221-231.

Links:	https://easychair.org/publications/paper/bJKT
	https://doi.org/10.29007/c4kt

BibTeX entry

@inproceedings{EUNIS2024:Creating_seamless_learner_experiences,
  author    = {Bettina Benzinger and Jorge Canellas Lardies and Javier Lapuente and Alexander Knoth},
  title     = {Creating seamless learner experiences: Towards achieving interoperability in European University Alliances},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of EUNIS 2024 annual congress in Athens},
  editor    = {Raimund Vogl and Laurence Desnos and Jean-François Desnos and Spiros Bolis and Lazaros Merakos and Gill Ferrell and Effie Tsili and Manos Roumeliotis},
  series    = {EPiC Series in Computing},
  volume    = {105},
  publisher = {EasyChair},
  bibsource = {EasyChair, https://easychair.org},
  issn      = {2398-7340},
  url       = {/publications/paper/bJKT},
  doi       = {10.29007/c4kt},
  pages     = {221-231},
  year      = {2025}}

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