The European-Russian-central Asian network of
Master's degrees "Informatics as a Second competence"
Jean-Michel AdamPierre Mendès France University, Grenoble, France
ERAMIS Tempus Project
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To set up a network of Master’s degree “Informatics as a Second Competence” among 9 beneficiary universities of Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan and Russia, with the support of 5 European universities.
Main goal of ERAMIS project
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Disciplinary and geographical extension of the existing Masters in Grenoble and in Bishkek (Double Degree in Computer Science and Social Sciences):
to engineering sciences and exact sciences, to Russian, Kazakh and Kyrgyz Universities.
Development of necessary conditions to set up Double Diploma.
National and international professionalization of the Master’s degree: harmonization of concepts between ERAMIS network partners.
Project Goals
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Unusual master: not a specialization of the Bachelor’s domain
Aims to provide an additional professional specialization in computer sciences
Open to students with a Bachelor degree in another field than computer sciences◦ students of exact sciences and engineering science◦ students of human and social sciences
Master’s degree program ISC is created on the basis of two masters:◦ At Université Pierre Mendès France, Grenoble (created in 1985)◦ At Kirghize National University, Bishkek (created in 2007)
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The Master’s degree program "Informatics as a Second Competence"
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European consortium
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Beuth Hochschule fuer Technik Berlin, DE
Lublin University of Technology Lublin, PL
Université Pierre Mendès FranceGrenoble, FR
University of Alicante Alicante, ES
Savonia University of Applied Sciences, Kuopio, FI
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Kyrgyz State Technical University, Bishkek, KG
Kyrgyz State National University, Bishkek, KG
Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, KZ
Innovative University of Eurasia, Pavlodar, KZ
Karagandy State Technical University, Karaganda, KZ
Voronej State University, Voronej, RU
Astrakhan State University, Astrakhan, RU
Kazan Technical University, Kazan, Tatarstan, RU
Saratov State Socio-Economic University, Saratov, RU
Beneficiary universities
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Beneficiary universities
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Sofit - Information Systems, Saratov, RU
SYSTEMOTEKHNIKA, Almaty, KZ
ISP Aknet, Bishkek, KG
External Expert
◦ Pr. Patrick Girard, University of Poitiers, FR
Companies involved in the project
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1. Needs analysis
2. Construction of the syllabuses for the Master’s program of the network
3. Constitution of educational teams for the Master’s degree
4. Accreditation of the Master's in Russia, Kazakhstan and Kirghizstan
5. Training sessions in European Universities and training seminars in beneficiary countries Universities
6. Start up of the Master's first year in Russian, Kazakh and Kirghiz Universities.
7. Development of the educational documents
8. Quality assurance
9. Sharing elective courses
Main activities of the project
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• 2 surveys carried out in every region
• 2383 students (1012 SHS, 1371 sciences & engineering)
• 174 companies
• General results• Depending on the country, the number of interested students vary from 40% to 65%
• Industrial companies need IT/CS specialists. Therefore Informatics as a second competence makes sense.
• Industrial companies need different kinds of IT/CS specialists such as web developers, software engineers, network administrators etc. depending on the geographic location.
• Industrial companies need not only “pure” IT/CS specialists
→ Common modules for generic competences and particular modules for specific competences.
Needs analysis
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Common Syllabus
1st Semester:
Algorithms and Data structures (5 ECTS)
Programming (6 ECTS)
Computers' operating Systems (3 ECTS)
Mathematics for Computer Science (3 ECTS)
Databases (3 ECTS)
Computer English (2 ECTS)
2nd Semester:
Software engineering (5 ECTS)
Project Management (3 ECTS)
Web Development (5 ECTS)
Computer English 2 (2 ECTS)
3rd Semester:
Data mining and Data warehouse (4 ECTS)
Human-computer Interaction (3 ECTS)
Software engineering Project 1 (5 ECTS)
4th Semester:
Software engineering Project 2 (5 ECTS)
Internship (8 weeks minimum, full-time employment)
Construction of the syllabuses for the Master’s degrees program of the network
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• Developed between the European Union teachers and teachers from the beneficiary universities.
• Described in English, according to common standards
• Checked and verified by the independent expert
• Certain elective courses were defined individually by each university on their own
• Some national rules impose to insert specific courses
• At least 20% of the courses presented in English
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• in Europe (2011)•17 different courses organized
• in 5 European universities• about 50 trainees from beneficiary countries•166 certificates
• in beneficiary countries (2012)• about 30 on going mobilities (EU trainers)
Training sessions in European Universities and training seminars in beneficiary countries Universities
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Training sessions in European Universities
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Place Courses Nb. trainees
Beuth University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, Germany
from 02/05/2011 to 13/05/2011
Computer graphics 4 (R)
Data Mining & Data Warehouse 8 (E)
Java Programming 5 (R/E)
Software Architecture 5 (E)
Lublin University of Technology, Lublin, Poland
from 23/05/2011 to 03/06/2011and
from 06/06/2011 to 17/06/2011
Computer system security 7 (E)
Matlab in Engineering 7 (E)
Mobile Systems Development 6 (R)
Object-Oriented Software Engineering
6 (R)
Pierre Mendès France University, Grenoble, France
from 13/06/2011 to 24/06/2011
Artificial Intelligence & Multi-agent Systems
16 (E/I)
Human Machine Interaction 15 (E/I)
Logic programming 15 (E/I)
University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain
from 13/06/2011 to 24/06/2011
Content Management Systems 9 (E)
e-Business & e-Commerce 9 (E)
Semi – structured Documents 9 (E)
Savonia University of Applied Sciences,Kuopio, Finland
from 24/10/2011 to 04/11/2011
Cisco Academy 15 (E)
e-Learning 15 (E)
Information System Management 15 (E)
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University Topic Nr. Hours
Astrakhan State University
Design patterns in Java 10Frameworks in Java 10Spatio-Temporal Representation and Reasoning 10Practice of the Semantic Web 10
Al-Farabi Kazakh National University Almaty Design patterns in Java 10Frameworks in Java 10
Voronezh State UniversityWeb Programming with PHP 15Algorithms and data structures 10Wireless Sensor Networks 10
Kazan Research State Technical UniversityDatabase Design 10Programming in T-SQL on MS SQL Server 2008 20Data Mining and Data Warehousing 20
Kyrgyz Natonal University Bishkek Model Driven Engineering and WebML 10WebML in practice using the WebRatio 10
Kyrgyz State Technical University BishkekWeb Application Programming with Google Maps 15Introduction to XML information system architecture 16
Karaganda State Technical University
Model Driven Engineering and WebML 10WebML in practice using the WebRatio 10Introduction Router networks 10Design Patterns in Web Applications 10
Innovative University of Eurasia Pavlodar
Unified Modeling Language and C++ 20Wireless Sensor Networks 10IPv6 Low power Wireless Personal Area Networks 10Introduction to Web Accessability 15
Saratov State Socio-Economic University Data Mining and Data Warehousing 20Introduction to MATLAB for Computer Science 12
Training sessions in beneficiary countries
Number of students in the first year : 100 enrolled students Russia
◦ Astrakhan 6◦ Kazan 43 (2 Master’s degree programs)◦ Saratov 4◦ Voronej 10
Kazakhstan◦ Almaty 4◦ Karaganda 4◦ Pavlodar 8
Kirghizstan◦ KSTU Bishkek 9◦ KNU Bishkek 12 (7 long life learning students)
Start up of the Master's first year in Russian, Kazakh and Kirghiz Universities.
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Synthesis of the 1st year of the master’s degree programs
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Astrakhan State University
Kazan Technic
al University (C.S.)
Kazan Technica
l University (Eng. & Eco.)
Saratov State Socio-
Economic University
Voronezh
State Univers
ity
Al-Farabi Kazakh National Universi
ty
Karagandy State Technic
al Universit
y
Innovative Univ.
of Earasia Pavlodar
Kyrgyz State
Technical
University
Kyrgyz State
National Universi
ty
ERAMIS
Nr. of Registred students Sept. 2011 6 23 20 4 10 4 4 8 9 12 100
Nr. Long life learning students 2 8 0 0 8 0 1 0 1 7 27
% of long life learning students 33% 35% 0% 0% 80% 0% 25% 0% 11% 58% 27%
Nr. Of students working in parallel 6 23 15 4 10 4 0 8 8 12 90
% of students working in parallel 100% 100% 75% 100% 100% 100% 0% 100% 89% 100% 90%
Nr. Of students from IT/CS 3 1 0 0 0 3 4 6 1 0 18
Nr of students corresponding to the master
3 22 20 4 10 1 0 2 8 12 82
% of students corresponding to the master
50% 96% 100% 100% 100% 25% 0% 25% 89% 100% 82%
Nr. of giving up 0 10 2 0 0 1 0 1 5 5 24% of giving up 0,0% 43,5% 10,0% 0,0% 0,0% 25,0% 0,0% 12,5% 55,6% 41,7% 24%
Nr. Of students expected next year 0 25 20 ? 5 6 8 7 10 15 96
% requested common courses done / year1
89% 100% 100% 100% 114% 100% 86% 51% 100% 100% 94%
% requested common courses done / S1 64% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 73% 23% 100% 100% 86%
% requested common courses done / S2 20% 100% 100% 100% 133% 100% 67% 0% 100% 100% 82%
% courses done in english language 21% 20% 30% 21% 29% 100% 11% 0% 0% 17% 25%
% courses done in english language S1 17% 22% 20% 30% 45% 100% 20% 0% 0% 22% 27%
% courses done in english language S2 27% 18% 42% 10% 12% 100% 0% 0% 0% 11% 22%
Creation of the Monitoring, Evaluation and Improvement Committee of ERAMIS network
Audit of all the beneficiary universities
Assessment of students’ learning: creation of a virtual survey to evaluate and compare the level of the students
Creation of tests in English and in Russian
Tests installed on a Web assessment platform and testing
Evaluation of the results by the independent expert
Quality assurance
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Tests were produced by each beneficiary partner ◦ for all the common courses◦ in English or in Russian
The produced tests were translated in English / Russian
In order to insure the tests will cover the whole syllabuses ◦ the syllabuses were divided in 3, 4 or 5 parts◦ each partner have produced 3 to 5 questions for each part
The tests produced were evaluated by experts (the course leaders)
About 800 test questions were produced
Tests production
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Process of tests production and students’ assessment
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For all the organized trainings and seminars, documents (in English or in local language of the animator) were given to the participants.
For all masters, pedagogic documents were produced in English or in Russian
Some of these documents were uploaded on the ERAMIS project management platform (Grenoble)
All the tests produced are available for all the partners
Production of pedagogic documents
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Proposed course University Lang.Total Nr
of Students
KNU Bishkek
KG
KNRTU Kazan
RU
VSU Voronezh
RU
UPMF Grenoble
FR
KazNU Almaty
KZ
INEU Pavlodar
KZ
Web systems development
KazNU Almaty KZ
E 12 2 4 1 5
Foundation of Information Security
KazNU Almaty KZ
E 7 3 1 1 2
Project ManagementKazNU Almaty
KZE 5 2 1 2
Software Engineering
KazNU Almaty KZ
E 6 3 1 2
LAN and WAN Networks Design
KazNU Almaty KZ
E 2 1 1
Logic ProgrammingUPMF
Grenoble FRE 20 1 4 7 8
Web DevelopmentVSU Voronezh
RUE / R 13 2 5 6
NetworksVSU Voronezh
RUE / R 2 2
Total Nr of registrations
67 7 12 8 24 8 8
Experiment of sharing e-learning elective courses inside the Eramis network
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Proposed shared courses and number of registered students
Many presentation of papers describing different aspects of ERAMIS Project, in international conferences (IEEE EDUCON, ICL, …) or scientific newspapers (International Journal of Engineering Pedagogy, …)
Conference in Bishkek in June 2012 Web site of the project Many web pages speaking about ERAMIS project
Dissemination
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Framework agreements Alicante and Voronezh Lublin and Voronezh Alicante and Lublin Grenoble and Voronezh Grenoble and Almaty Lublin and Almaty KNU and Lublin KNU and KSTU Bishkek
Agreements signed between partners
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Size of the consortium: administrative and accounting tasks underestimated => delays
Difficulties related to Russian and Kazakh standards of higher education
Insufficient level of English of certain teachers and students from the partner Universities
Difficulties due to compatibility constraints among the Masters degree programs of Eramis network
Poor involvement of the companies Difficulties of communication with and between the partners All the students work in parallel of the studies
=> difficulties to do the home work
=> a lack of practical activities
Difficulties
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Employability of the graduates
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Number of graduates
Number of students who found a job
Employability rate at the end
of master
Astrakhan State University, RU 5 5 100%
Kazan Technical University, RU 30 30 100%
Saratov State Socio-Economic University, RU 4 4 100%
Voronezh State University, RU 7 7 100%
Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, KZ 3 2 67%
Karagandy State Technical University, KZ 4 4 100%
Innovative Univ. of Earasia Pavlodar, KZ 7 7 100%
Kyrgyz State Technical University, KG 2 2 100%
Kyrgyz State National University, KG 7 7 100%
ERAMIS 69 68 99%
Double Diploma◦ Double diploma between Almaty and Grenoble in progress◦ First student mobility from Almaty to Grenoble
Evaluation of the students of the network with the assessment platform
Continuation of the network by sharing pedagogic documents, e-learning courses
Sustainability of the network by the PROMIS project
Future activities
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Rich and enjoyable experience Development of the common educational structure
for the 9 ISC Master’s degree programs united in a network
8 masters created, accredited by the national ministries and launched as planned
A real network of masters’ degrees, that really works.
Conclusion
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Contact information ERAMIS Tempus project
Université Pierre Mendès FranceUFR SHS – BP 4738040 Grenoble cedex 9
Project Coordinator: Jean-Michel [email protected]
Project Manager: Anna [email protected]
Web site : http://tempus2.seun.ru/
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Thank you for your Attention. Any Question?
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