EduCom Minutes 2018-07-03

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Notes of Kick-Off TCon for the Education Committee / Professional Certification Jul 3, 2018:

Participants

• Jürgen Brandstätter
• Stefan Sauermann
• Charles Parisot

Schedule / Milestone dates

o Priority is the creation and start of the first exam

• Accreditation of training providers will be done after the first exam is online (in 2019)

o Draft schedule:

• Startup of education committee by end of Aug / early Sep
• Biweekly TCons for the first 3 months
• First pilot exam Nov/Dec
• First trial of the pilot exams with selected persons Dec/Jan (e.g. IHE Services consultants, fellows from Development Domains, known IHE experts, …)

Including start of marketing

 Final exam being ready at CAT-US and/or EU 2019  Goal: Students of universities shall be prepared for sitting the exam at end of summer term 2019

Education Committee

o Interim Chair: Jürgen o Wiki  Current Wiki page: http://wiki.ihe.net/index.php/Education_Workgroup  A new Education Committee wiki page will be created  Current Education Workgroup page will be retained as „history“ (referred to as link) • A link to the new page will be added  Contains the usual “committee” text blocks, e.g. TCon schedule/agenda/minutes, etc.  Important points of the current page will be take over into the new page  Jamie will be asked to create the new page as structure and draft (Jürgen) • Stefan will contribute text blocks (starting early Aug) o Google  Current google group: https://groups.google.com/a/ihe.net/forum/#!forum/ihe-icp  Current google group will be renamed to “Education Committee” with new link https://groups.google.com/a/ihe.net/forum/#!forum/ihe-edu  Current members will be kept and communication of the group operated on this google group  Changes already done during the TCon  Jamie has been invited to the group and is asked to join to become manager of the group (Jürgen) o FTP  Current FTP place: ftp://ftp.ihe.net/GDC/EducationWG/  A new FTP place will be created: ftp://ftp.ihe.net/EducationCommittee • Old data will be moved there and old site deprecated  Jürgen does the start and Stefan fills with material (starting early Aug)

Next steps

o Wiki/GoogleGroup/FTP shall be ready at end of July o Stefan and Werner will create material:  Final schedule and milestone dates  Draft for scheme according to the contract: • Professional certification: Syllabus, Exam, Processes, certification marks, etc. • Accreditation rules for training providers: accreditation criteria, processes, certification marks, etc. o In August the following communication will take place: 1. Selected persons will be invited on a personal basis to join the google group (Jürgen) 2. Jürgen sends a message to the google group with the invitation to the first TCon according to final schedule 3. At first TCon, the material prepared will be shown and discussion starts