Flexible education
Service portfolio
A learner-centred education system
Together, we can enable flexible education, now and in the future. SURF’s solutions help you organise flexibility for learners properly from the start. We work collaboratively to ensure seamless information exchange across systems and institutions, without limitations.
The added value of SURF
Education, open and digital
Digital solutions for accessible educational provision.
Enabling flexible study options
Students can broadly orientate and register for courses and minors, and institutions can provide feedback on achieved results.
Ownership of learning outcomes
Learners can digitally collect and share their achievements and experiences.
What we offer on flexible education
Sharing data
Share data with other institutions and market players:
Orientation and registration
Orientation to and enrolment in education at home and other institutions:
Making results visible
Collect and share achieved results and experiences:
Collaborating on an ecosystem for flexible education
Students want more freedom in completing their learning pathway, including outside their own institution and internationally. This flexibility requires a transformation towards a learner-centred education system. Interoperability is an important prerequisite for this: organisations and their systems must be able to cooperate and exchange information without restrictions.
Within SURF, institutions work together on this education ecosystem. We develop technical building blocks, applications, platforms and universal standards (such as APIs). We are now working on solutions to:
- make data on educational offers accessible
- enable learners to broadly orientate and register for courses and minors, and enable institutions to provide feedback on achieved results
- enable digital collection and sharing of results and experience.
Flexible education in practice
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Four education services now structurally available for mbo, hbo and wo
An important step for higher education: the SURF services edubadges, SURFeduhub, edusources and SURFsharekit are now structurally available via the sector service packages for senior secondary…Case study
Investing in what is truly valuable with microcredentials
To respond faster to technological developments and the great need for specialised IT staff, the Hogeschool van Amsterdam is setting an example with Make IT Work. A retraining programme in which students obtain microcredentials. "In this way, you make talent permanently employable," he says.