Interoperability
To give students more flexibility when studying, including outside their institutions, products, systems and organisations must be able to cooperate and exchange information without restrictions. They must be 'interoperable'. This is often not yet the case. That is why SURF, at home and abroad, works together to increase interoperability.
The transformation to a learner-centred education system requires a redesign of the education ecosystem, with interoperability as an important prerequisite.
Practice / projects interoperability in education
What is SURF doing about interoperability?
- We focus on promoting cooperation on international standards, with pilots such as EduXS;
- We are collaborating within the European Digital Education Hub (EDEH) on the development of a European framework for international interoperability in higher education and the design of an associated reference architecture.
- For networking, we are active in organisations and initiatives such as Géant, EUNIS, 1EdTech and Erasmus Without Papers (EWP).
- With Npuls, we are working on the project Visual Language for interoperability, to support conversations on digitisation of education.