ERAMIS Tempus Project

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

ERAMIS Tempus Project Final Conference – Voronezh, June 2013

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"


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


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


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


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


• 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


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


• 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


Training sessions in European Universities


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)


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.


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


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


Process of tests production and students’ assessment


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


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


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


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


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


Employability of the graduates


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


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


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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