Credit transfer information systems in higher education are not well studied. This article demonstrates the prototype development of a cross-institutional credit transfer information system (CICIS) for community college transfer (i.e., vertical transfer) students in an Asian educational context. It exhibits credit transfer guidelines and past credit transfer records to enhance the transparency and sustainability of credit transfer information and to facilitate the transfer process of prospective community college transfer students. It also ensures the sustainability of credit transfer information and its application. The four-phase life cycle of the prototyping model was adopted to guide the study. In this paper, we report the first three phases of this development: (1) Users’ needs assessment and pre-prototyping groundwork, (2) prototype development, and (3) unforeseen circumstances and expert review. Challenges and difficulties throughout the whole process are documented and discussed. Based on this prototype development experience, a solid foundation of strategies for future engineering and enhancement of credit transfer information systems can be developed.
We called the global creative community for contributions by summer 2020 in an attempt to map practices for generating and sharing alternative knowledges across a variety of creative methods and forms. Our call accepts that there may be an infinite number of equally valid, but possibly less accessible – or merely accessible by certain communities – knowledge systems, much like concurrent physics is considering the existence of a multiverse of parallel universes. If this were indeed our view, then obviously it would be a futile exercise articulating a comprehensive overview of all existing/possible systems. Instead, all we may attempt is articulating potential frameworks to qualitatively and/or quantitatively describe such systems.
In 1999, the small, but rather well-known German town of Weimar was to become the Cultural Capital of Europe. In preparation for this major international event, as far back as 1996 the BauhausUniversity Weimar -one of the leading local cultural institutions -had set up a student agency, Ideenwerkstatt '99 (Ideas Workshop '99) to initiate, coordinate and realise pilot projects leading up to the climactic festival program in 1999.From its establishment, the Ideenwerkstatt '99 was located in a fairly large hall of a university-owned condemned building, managed by a young administrative officer assigned by the university, who supervised a core group of eight part-time student freelancers and an unaccounted number of projectrelated student helpers. Other than the administrative officer's salary, the office space and some initial office equipment, the university didn't allocate much further funding to the operation of the project; the Ideenwerkstatt essentially needed to compete for internal and/or external funding and/or grants, or otherwise produce its own income.When the Ideenwerkstatt closed down at the end of the summer of 1999 it had co-produced: -An international architectural competition including an international preparatory workshop for a town-planning project called neues bauen am horn (1996) -The architecture exhibition, KulturStadtBauen, which toured Europe for two years as a promotional warm-up to the Cultural Capital year -A full-scale TV studio for the broadcasting of the 100-day festival TV program, worldhausTV (1999) -A series of international symposia called campus 99 (1999) -A number of smaller exhibitions of student projects and similar events in local venues .As a side-project for income-generation, the Ideenwerkstatt also became very involved with the university's general visual communications, and at some point it was effectively the institutional communications bureau. Of the eight core student members of the Ideenwerkstatt, all but one became creative entrepreneurs immediately after their graduation from university; five are still successful design entrepreneurs today, two proceeded to become university professors.I am one of the latter. SOCIOPOLITICAL CONTEXT IN hONg kONgBased on my own rather beneficial experience as a student member of a student design agency in the 1990s in Germany, it came quite naturally to me to suggest setting up a university-related student RESEARCh BACkgROUNDThe situation in Hong Kong indicates that there is demand from the student side for professional on-job experience as well as for development of entrepreneurial skills and 'spirit', while at the same time there is demand from businesses and industry for the In the contemporary educational landscape where students are bound by term schedules and study plans, courses are built around specific program and course-level Intended Learning Outcomes and programs need to account for their learning outcomes to Quality Assurance Committees. Continuous and recurring integration -that is, beyond the one-off colla...
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