Issues of Policy and Strategy for International Collaboration between European HEIs

Laban, Firas Al; Engel, Katharina; Knoth, Alexander; Lucke, Ulrike

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“…While political demand, as well as educational need and willingness are clearly a given, structural anchoring, effective support and guidance on an institutional level are missing; i.e., there is a pipeline leakage in transformation of (inter)national policies to institutional strategy and regulation, as well as their subsequent implementation. At the same time, policy awareness among HE educators is remarkably low [3]. This is a significant contrast to the very strong policy awareness in the area of teacher education, where both faculty and teachers involved in the training revealed a detailed knowledge of applicable policies and a distinct personal opinion on their possible adjustments.…”

Section: Conclusion Recommendations and Future Workmentioning

confidence: 86%

“…One of the evaluation roles in the OpenU project was to investigate the practices of the national and institutional policies, as well as the administrative solutions for international cooperation, virtual mobility and blended learning in two evaluation cycles. To this end, the results of the second evaluation phase showed the valuable role of policy experimentation in potentially bridging the gap between policy and practice using a bridge of research evidence [3].…”

Section: Investigating the Horizontal And Vertical Policy Gapsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The policy gaps in our research context can be identified as the following: First, there is a vertical gap in the translation of higher-level policies to local strategies and regulations [3]. Second, there is a horizontal gap between educational domains regarding the policy awareness of individual players [4].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Sci. 2022, 12, 930 2 of 22 from implementation to an unfolding at the local level ( [3], p. 6). Generally speaking, there is always a risk of policy gaps in all policy-induced systems / services to society (e.g., [6,7]).…”

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Closing the Policy Gap in the Academic Bridge

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The highly structured nature of the educational sector demands effective policy mechanisms close to the needs of the field. That is why evidence-based policy making, endorsed by the European Commission under Erasmus+ Key Action 3, aims to make an alignment between the domains of policy and practice. Against this background, this article addresses two issues: First, that there is a vertical gap in the translation of higher-level policies to local strategies and regulations. Second, that there is a horizontal gap between educational domains regarding the policy awareness of individual players. This was analyzed in quantitative and qualitative studies with domain experts from the fields of virtual mobility and teacher training. From our findings, we argue that the combination of both gaps puts the academic bridge from secondary to tertiary education at risk, including the associated knowledge proficiency levels. We discuss the role of digitalization in the academic bridge by asking the question: which value does the involved stakeholders expect from educational policies? As a theoretical basis, we rely on the model of value co-creation for and by stakeholders. We describe the used instruments along with the obtained results and proposed benefits. Moreover, we reflect on the methodology applied, and we finally derive recommendations for future academic bridge policies.

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Section: Conclusion Recommendations and Future Workmentioning

confidence: 86%

Section: Investigating the Horizontal And Vertical Policy Gapsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Governance principles and regulatory needs for a national digital education platform

Gleiß,

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Knoth

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Public Policy and Administration

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The educational sector currently faces a massive digital transformation with various digital offerings entering the market. To provide some orientation in this transforming space, a national digital education platform (NDEP) is under development in Germany as part of a nationwide flagship project. On the one hand, in efficiently connecting the relevant stakeholders to each other and to value-adding education-related offerings, various benefits emerge. On the other hand, monopolising the educational sector and influencing the respective market through a state-controlled platform bears potential regulatory risks from misuse of power by the platform to malpractice by the users. Against this background, we aim to identify and systematise these potential drawbacks prior to the platform’s actual development and implementation. We pursue a qualitative, interpretivist approach for policy analysis, based on ten elite interviews and two workshops. Our results are threefold: (1) We capture the consolidated NDEP architecture; (2) We categorise the range of relevant functions and value propositions of the NDEP; (3) We derive 23 regulatory areas of conflict across the three building blocks that result from the potential ecosystem and function scope configurations of the NDEP. As a contribution to research, we shed new interdisciplinary light on the governance and infrastructure of public-private platforms that enable innovation and collaboration while integrating respective market segments. As a contribution to practice, we provide clear guidance for policy-makers in strategizing the development and governance of and through national digital platforms in education.

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Issues of Policy and Strategy for International Collaboration between European HEIs

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Closing the Policy Gap in the Academic Bridge

Closing the Policy Gap in the Academic Bridge

Governance principles and regulatory needs for a national digital education platform

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