SIG Teaching: International/Nordic Master´s Programme

Feasibility Study and some NMP Application issues

This is a collaborative Feasibility Study. All interested partners are asked to add comments, questions and all data that they think relevant to the proposed International/Nordic Master's Programme in Language Technology.

Motivation

• Why do we want to create the programme? What are the benefits?
• What are the risks?

Resources

• Does the teaching offered by the partners overlap?
• Does teaching in English require additional resources?
• Does the teaching depend on the individuals or the department?
• Which partner will coordinate the cooperation?

Studies

• Do we want shared core courses or additional value by bigger selection of other studies?
• How stable is the selection of courses over time?
• Who are the future students of the programme? Why would they want to take the Master's Programme courses? Would they have other options?

Means

• Do we have the technology required for web based teaching?
• How experienced we have on running courses in the net?
• Can we finance student mobility? How? Is student mobility needed?

NMP application issues

• the Nordic Council of Ministers aims at attracting students from other countries to the Nordic universities and also at offering competitive programmes to keep the Nordic students in the Nordic countries
• the existing cooperation through NordForsk, the networks of GENST-NET and NGSLT offer a solid base for cooperation
• strengthening the Nordic higher education strengthens the Nordic countries as a region
• selecting the expertise from each partner makes the master's programme attractive to both Nordic and international students
• the Master's Programme offers such higher education that is not possible for the countries to offer on their own
• the Master's Programme will develop new models and practices for cooperation and to spread good practices
• the Master's Programme will create new form of expertise in areas where such is required
• multidisciplinary programmes are welcomed
• concrete requirements for the cooperation need to be defined, such as virtual learning environments and how they will be created
• joint study programmes: having completed the programme, the students will receive either one diploma or two national diplomas
• the role of the consortium with respect to the legislation of the states involved needs to be clarified
• post-graduate studies need to be available for the students who have completed the Master's Programme
• the members of the consortium are expected to stand for the costs of the programme in the future
• budget for the funds to be included in the application

Evaluation criteria

• Aims and excellence emph. 3
• Academic quality and increase in value for the Nordic community emph. 3
• Long-term quality of the Master's Programme and means of assuring the quality emph. 3
• Research orientation emph. 3
• Good practices emph. 2
• Multidisciplinarity emph. 1
• Innovativeness emph. 2
• Potential to recruite international students emph. 2

• Mechanisms of cooperation (active roles of the parters, and definition of these, institutionalization, decision making and meetings etc.) emph. 3
• Integration and ability to implement the programme emph. 3
• Organization, transparency emph. 2
• Mechanisms for recruiting students from other than the Nordic countries emph. 2

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Attachments:

• norf_master.doc: The letter send by Pavel Skrelin to Eirikur Rögnvaldsson and Kimmo Koskenniemi (18 Jan 2007) with some suggestions about NE master program on Language and Speech Technology