The TUNING Process

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The TUNING Process

• ENOTHE Meeting
• Praha, 31 October-1 November 2003

Ann Katherine Isaacs
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What is TUNING?

• TUNING is a Pilot Project, designed and carried
  out by more than 100 European Institutions of
  Higher Education

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in order to create the premises for
comparability, compatibility and transparency in
the structures of European Higher Education.
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with the support of the European Commission
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through the Socrates - Erasmus programme of
the Directorate General for Education and Culture
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• The TUNING Logo

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• Background European Blue
• Tuning fork tuning structures
• University Universal Union
• Open-ended, coordinated, flexible U
• Diverse, multicoloured, dynamic

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• European Economic and Social Context
• Employability
• Mobility
• Life-Long Learning

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• The Higher Education Context
• Bologna-Prague-Berlin Process
• Easily readable and comparable degrees
• Compatible cycles (first, second cycle)
• European Credit Transfer AND Accumulation System
  (ECTS)

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• Bologna-Prague-Berlin Process
• Mobility, Curriculum Development, Integrated
  Programmes
• Quality Assurance

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• Objectives of TUNING
• Develop professional profiles and learning
  outcomes
• Facilitate transparency in educational structures
• Reach high levels of European convergence in a
  number of pilot subject areas
• Identify problems for convergence
• Reach out to other subject areas

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• Participants in TUNING I
• Pilot Groups 78 universities in 5 subject areas
• Synergy Groups Thematic Networks in other,
  identified subjects acting in synchrony with
  TUNING
• Professional bodies European University
  Association (EUA), European Network of Quality
  Agencies (ENQA), National Rectors Conferences,
  Student Associations, etc.
• Other interested parties

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• Pilot Subject Areas
• Business
• Education
• Geology
• History
• Mathematics
• Subsequently two synergy groups (Chemistry and
  Physics Thematic Networks) joined, bringing
  Tuning I subject areas to 7

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• Organisation
• Line 1 Employability and Competences
• Line 2 Knowledge and Contents
• Line 3 ECTS as an accumulation system
• Line 4 Approaches to Teaching/Learning and
  Assessment Quality Assurance

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• Work areas and products
• Line 1 Consultation with graduates, employers
  and academics on the importance for employment of
  30 generic competences and an evaluation of how
  well HE institutions develop them.
• Line 2 Mapping of subject areas and development
  of common reference points and subject specific
  competences for each of the pilot disciplines
• Line 3 Development of ECTS as a tool for
  programme design basis is student workload
  measured in time
• Line 4 Mapping of Approaches to
  Teaching/Learning and Assessment in different
  countries
• Quality Assurance the above has provided the
  basis for the TEEP 2002 Pilot Project on QA,
  carried out by ENQA with 3 TNs

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• Overall outcomes
• A methodology for tuning European Higher
  Education Structures
• Common reference points and learning outcomes for
  7 pilot subject areas
• A methodology for measuring student workload
• A Platform for discussion
• A Final Report based on experience gained (can be
  downloaded from Tuning website)

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• Further developments
• A proposal for
• Tuning-Latin America
• has been presented

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• Further developments
• Tuning 2 is now in progress
• Two new subject areas Nursing and European
  studies
• Greater involvement of central and eastern
  European countries
• Particular attention to Linking competences,
  generic and subject specific, to
  teaching/learning approaches
• Linking assessment methods to competences
• Developing methods for quality assurance and
  quality culture

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• Further developments
• Tuning in Thematic Networks
• The European Commission has invited all Thematic
  Networks to implement Tuning..

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• Who and what are the Thematic Networks?
• A world, a family, a network of networks.the
  interlocutors for supranational HE matters in all
  of Europe.

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• THENUCE Continuing Education
• ETNET Environment and Water
• Bologna Higher Arts Education
• EUPEN Physics Education
• STEDE Science Teacher Education
• TN Languages 2
• USAEE Agricultural Engineering
• ENSHA Heads of Schools of Architecture
• HUMANITARIANNET Humanitarian development
• EEGECS Geodetic Engineering
• ECTN 2 Chemistry

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• EUCEET I Civil Engineering
• EPISTEME II Political Science
• DentEdEvolves Dentistry
• TNPA2 Public Administration
• Una Filosofia per lEuropa Philosophy
• E4 Engineering
• BIOTECHNET Biotechnology
• EUSW Social Work
• ACUME Cultural memory
• CLIOHNET History
• MEDNET 2 Medicine

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• ENOTHE Occupational Therapy
• LE NOTRE Landscape Architecture
• THEIERE Electrical and Information Engineering
• ISEKI-Food Safety and Environment in Food
  Studies
• PHOENIX Health and Social Welfare Policy
• AFANet Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture,
  Enviorment
• GENIE Globalisation and Europeanisation in HE
• Nursing
• H.E.N.R.E Radiography
• HEROdotNet Geography and others

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Thematic NetworksAll in all, some
5000 active and motivated people
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• Tuning in Thematic Networks
• Tuning provides
• A successful methodology for finding common
  reference points and establishing learning
  oucomes for subjects areas
• 7 network-based case studies using a variety of
  approaches
• Materials, models, questionnaires, reports
• Advisers to inform and assist
• A forum for consultation and dialogue
• A platform for visibility

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• ENOTHE is invited to Tune in its own way, at
  its own rhythm..
• The stages Information
• Implementing the Lines
• Line 1 Generic competences
• Line 2 Common reference points and subject
  specific competences
• Line 3 ECTS
• Line 4 Approaches to T/L and Assessment linked
  to competences
• Line 5 Quality

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• Benifits
• Growth in understanding OT in the context of
  European diversity
• Publication of a TUNING-ENOTHE booklet using the
  common format

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• European diversity is reality, it is experience,
  it is strength.
• Networking is the European way of working.
• The European Higher Educational Area is
  student-centered, multicultural, multinational,
  multilingual.
• Tuning and TNs are vital in making it work.

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Websiteshttp//europa.eu.int/comm/education/tunin
g.htmlwww.relint.deusto.es/TuningProjectwww.let.
rug.nl/TuningProject
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isaacs_at_stm.unipi.it
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Welcome to TUNING