Quality

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Quality

• University of GenevaContinuing Education

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Quality Developement

• Two Quality tools

• Oracle Continuing Education Database
• Practical Guide

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University of Geneva

• 1559 Academy of Geneva, Jean Calvin
• 1873 University of Geneva
• 2006 7 faculties, 1 School, 2 Institutes
• Sciences, Medecine, Law, Theology, Psychology
  and Education Sciences, Social and economical
  Sciences, Humanities, Translation and
  Interpretation, Architecture, European Studies

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University of Geneva
7742 students
14685 students
Doctorate
Continuing Education Programmes
Master - 3 years
Bachelor - 2 years
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University of GenevaContinuing Education

• Master of Advanced Studies min 60 ECTS
• Diploma of Advanced Studies min 30 ECTS
• Certificates of Advanced Studies min 10 ECTS
• Sessions
• Days
• Conferences

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2005

• 7742 students and 197 programmes
• 4 Master of Advanced Studies
• 18 Diplomas of Advanced Studies
• 84 Certificates of Advanced Studies
• 91 Sessions, Days, Conferences

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Master of Advanced Studiesin Humanitarian Action

• Audience Experienced professionals with high
  education
• 60 ECTS 720 hours of contact 720 hours of
  personal work
• Partnership, multifaculty, national and
  international
• Teaching staff
• Pedagogy
• Evaluation by modules and final paper, possible

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Certificate of Advanced Studiesin Biosecurity

• Answer to the job market
• 15 ECTS
• State partnership
• Scientific and technical, but also legal,
  institutionnal, socio-economic and ethic aspects

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Evolution of programmes
Source Database Oracle Formation continue
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Database Oracle Continuing Education

• A managing informatic tool

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Basis of the request Initial Situation

• Number of students and programmes increasing
• Mixte management Centralised AND delocalised
• Multiple local informatic solutions in use

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Basis of the request Aims

• For the people in charge of programmes
• Integrated in the University / Specific for
  Continuing Education
• Management tool Centralised / Delocalised
• Future statistics
• Lifelong Learning

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Basis of the request Functionnalities

• Registration different from regular students /
  common database
• Use of existing data
• Administrative Management
• Financial Management
• Titles editing

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Gains, in terms of information

• Visibility
• Professionalism
• Integration of the existing
• ECTS curricula

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Gains, in terms of system

• Standardisation of procedures
• Reduction of data acquisition
• Possible evolution
• Web accessibility
• Confidentiality

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Oracle Continuing Education

• Programmes catalogue
• Participants registration and follow up
• Mailing advertising and teachers/speakers
• Finances bills and recalls
• Official documents implemented bills, recalls,
  lists, letters, attestations

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View of the tool

• Two examples
• Management of Participants
• Management of Programmes

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Pros and contras

• Full complexity
• One only tool for many actions
• Professionnal models
• Integrated in University system
• Highly dependent on computer experts
• Static environnement
• Expensive

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In movement

• Evaluation
• Team work
• Future developments
• - individualised pathways
• - student access to their files

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• Comments?
• Questions?

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Practical Guide

• A tool for creation and management of continuing
  education programmes

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Continuing Education - UniGE

• Continuing education Commision (COFO)
• Council for coordinating and developing
  continuing education (CCD)
• Continuing education Center (SFC)

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Quality criteria

• Relevance
• Partnership
• Interdisciplinarity
• Collaboration
• Pedagogy
• Validation
• Evaluation

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Rectorate thesis

• Linked to faculties
• CE Center role of logistic and intellectual
  support
• Coordination intra university needed
• Place for Global Strategy
• Development of collaboratives spaces
• Impulse function, complementary from faculties

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Missions of the CE Center

• Information and marketing
• Guidance and counselling to professors in
  promoting and developing continuing education
  programmes
• Coordination with national and international
  networks
• Prospection, Public relations with professionnals
• Administrative management and titles editing
• Statistics

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Guidance and counselling

• About 70 teams
• Team management commitee, director,
  coordinator, secretary, speakers

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Guidance and counselling

• Themes- Information about the institution
  UniGE- Pedagogy- Management - Marketing

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Practical guide

• Where to find all information needed
• as first aid
• in all steps of creation or management of a
  continuing education programme.

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New Concept

• Will be available in June 2006
• Created by CE Center
• Born from the experience of the staff
• Designed for the programmes teams
• To ensure quality of its services
• Contains information, documents, references,
  procedures, expertise and good practice

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5 steps

• Planify
• Realise
• Finance
• Manage
• Animate
• Consolidate

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Legal aspects
MAS in Humanitarian Action

• What ? Why ? How ? Who ? When ?

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MAS in Humanitarian Action
Models of regulation
ECTS
Official procedure
Links to interlocutors
Link to us for help!
Regulation??
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Advertising / Communication
Certificate in Biosecurity

• Need to announce a new programme ?

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Certificate in Biosecurity
Objectives
Brochures
Price and budget
Advertising models
Communication
Mailing adresses
Link to us for help!
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Gains

• Creativity
• Autonomy
• Recalls of adult pedagogy basics
• Web and protected access
• All references at one only place
• Professionnal models
• Direct web links
• Interactive
• Personalized

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What next?

• Maintenance
• Evaluation

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• Comments? Questions?