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Proposal for a New International Master program

Proposal for a New International Master program. Karen Anderson. Broad aims. Mid Sweden University and University College London began to discuss a joint Master program in January 2007 European partnership Using Erasmus within the Lifelong Learning Programme Totally online delivery.

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Proposal for a New International Master program

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  1. Proposal for a New International Master program Karen Anderson

  2. Broad aims • Mid Sweden University and University College London began to discuss a joint Master program in January 2007 • European partnership • Using Erasmus within the Lifelong Learning Programme • Totally online delivery

  3. Program aims and content:Master of Information Infrastructure (?) • Provide a new pool of graduates to provide recordkeeping expertise that must underpin e-services • Interest a new group of students in our discipline • Bring together our expertise in • Records management • Archival management • Systems planning and evaluation • Information architecture • Enterprise architecture • Compliance requirements for legislation and standards

  4. Why do it? • Opens new cooperation between our programmes • Individually we are small programs • Too small to offer options to our students • Extends our discipline – a new pool of courses • Attracts a new group of students • We can draw on our special strengths and expertise WITHOUT • Competing with our existing Master degrees • Overtaxing the limited resources of each partner • We learn from each other

  5. What we need • At least one more partner: • Willing to actively participate in planning • Willing to develop and deliver online courses in English • Able to sign EU Erasmus agreements • Programme proposal must be completed in October 2008 to commence Autumn 2009 • Progressively introduce courses 2009-2010

  6. Possible model

  7. Advantages of the model • Spreads the teaching load; • Shares the student income; • Ensures students don’t concentrate on the cheapest option; • Maintains contact by all partners with students in each study period; • Helps to ensure that students consider all partners as: • potential Master thesis supervisors • potential PhD supervisors

  8. Problems and needs • Sweden cannot issue a joint degree: • must be a double/triple degree • Short initial planning proposal time for 2009 introduction • Ability to work together electronically • Agreement on meeting dates • Agreement on programme • Aims • Title • Structure • Content • Practicum / Internship • Agreement on delivery platform, eg Web CT

  9. EU funding for planning & development • Curriculum development meetings (deadline Feb) • TS:Teaching staff mobility (must be at least 1 night overnight stay) • ST: Staff training – must be 5 days’ stay: 800 Euros • Transnational developments to teach in each others’ courses

  10. EU funding for students • OM: Organisation of mobility – 2-3 days’ discussion about student meetings • Student mobility – 3 months’ minimum: SEK5000 (900 Euros?) per month to the student • For a course • For an internship • Intensive workshops: students meet for 2 weeks • From different universities • May be from different disciplines

  11. First steps • Mid Sweden University and University College London are jointly developing an online course at Master level: • Standards for Digital Recordkeeping to be taught at • Miun in Autumn 2008 • UCL in Spring 2009 • Programme to be cooperatively planned by partners

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