Academic History Web Service Collaboration

Added by Steve Wheat, last edited by Steve Wheat on Jul 31, 2010  (view change)

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What's New

Background

There is a mounting discrepancy between the number of jobs requiring postsecondary degrees and the number of United States students successfully completing degrees.  Increasing access to postsecondary programs and increasing student success in these programs are critically important to address the projected shortfall of workers with postsecondary degrees.  A key strategy to increasing student success in degree programs is matching students to optimal programs at appropriate institutions when students transfer between institutions.  The more prior coursework that transfers into a degree program, the closer the student is to completion and the more likely the program and institution is a good fit for the student.

Online course transfer, degree audit, and other advising services have emerged to facilitate this process by modeling transfer scenarios for students.  These services are useful, but their effectiveness and reach is impeded, because students' prior coursework is not available through a programmatic interface that allows students to import their data into these services.  Students must enter their prior coursework manually before it can be used to model transfer scenarios for degree programs.  This manual entry is both time consuming and prone to error.  Many students do not complete this process and do not receive the benefit of these new online services.  If academic institutions deploy academic history web services, students will be able to import their data immediately and accurately.  This service improvement will increase the effectiveness and student adoption of online course transfer applications.  More students will receive better course transfer analysis more quickly to help them transfer into the best degree program.

Read more about the need for the project and the significance of the project.

Deployments

Deployments of the Academic History Web Service are registered in the PESC EdUnify web service registry for higher education.  A listing of all web services annoted with "Academic History" is availble here.  At this time of this writing, there are eight known deployments of the service.  The project attempts to keep this listing up to date, but the PESC EdUnify registry should be considered the authoritative index of deployments.

  1. Central Carolina Technical College (planned August 2010)
  2. Horry Georgetown Technical College
  3. Midlands Technical College
  4. OpenEAI Software Foundation
  5. Piedmont Technical College
  6. Tri-County Technical College
  7. Trident Technical College
  8. University of South Carolina

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