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Concurrent Curricula Birds of a Feather Paula
Brower and Rick Burne of SunGard Higher
Education Thursday 10 January - S2.18
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Agenda

• Concurrent Curricula Review
• Contract Registration
• Open Discussion

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What is Concurrent Curricula?

• Concurrent curricula is the project name for a
  set of new data structures and enhanced
  functionality that allows todays learners to
  apply, enroll, and graduate in an unlimited
  number of programs within the same term or across
  academic periods.

How?
SHADEGR
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Client Involvement

• University of Richmond
• Dartmouth College
• Virginia Tech
• Australian Catholic University
• University of Birmingham
• BCIT
• The University of Southampton
• Nottingham Trent University
• University of Oregon
• Middlesex University
• Wellington University

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Concurrent Curricula Project Timeline
8.0
7.4
7.3.1
7.3
7.2
7.1
7.0
2006
2005
2007
2008
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
Q1 Q2
I II III IV MB RU V
Phases of Concurrent Curricula delivery
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Concurrent Curricula Phase V
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Concurrent Curricula Focus Group

• 4 Conference Calls twice a day in Nov-Dec 2006
• 38 Business Requirements
• 34 Institutions participated
• 80 Individuals participated

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Contract Registration

• Purpose
• Record and track separate enrollment status and
  academic standing based on the students
  programme of study
• Issue
• A person may pursue more than one programme of
  study at the same time. The study for each
  programme may not commence simultaneously. Each
  programme should be able to be billed
  independently, and with a different per credit
  hour charge. The student may progress at
  different rates on each programme.

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Sara Student
Programme - FOS
Enrol Status
Acad Standing
Romantic Poets
BA English Literature
Active
Stage 3
Chomsky
Dickens Novels
BS Computer Programming
Stage 1
Active
War Poets
Algorithms
Spoken French
CE MicroSoft Certification
Active
2nd Level
MS Cert CE10
Contract 1 UG BA English Literature
Priority 1 Contract 2 UG BS Computer
Programming Priority 2 Contract 3 CE MS
Certificate Priority 3
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Current Issues

• Enrollment student status and enrollment status
  need to be independently recorded for each
  programme.
• Registration Need ability to record how each
  course applied to each programme.
• Fee Assessment Needs to take into account the
  credit/billing hours associated for each program.
  
• Billing Contracts and Exemptions need to apply
  to the fee raised for a particular programme.
• Grade Roll Needs to respect the application of
  courses to programmes.
• Progress and Academic Standing Data recorded
  needs to be independent of each program of study.
  
• Attributes, Classification, Cohorts and
  Registration Blocks Needs to be recorded for
  each programme.

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Questions

• What term should be used to describe this
  concept?
• How should the contracts affect registration?
• Do you have the concept of Learning
  Communities? Example Incoming 1st time
  students are put into groups that take the same
  set of classes that can span different programs.
• What are the different methods of fee generation?
• How should contracts affect transcript
  production?
• How would you handle holds for contracts?
• Any other topics to discuss?

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Open Discussion and Questions
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