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Architecture & standards

As an organisation, you want to support your members as effectively as possible. To do so, your information management must be well organised. Architecture and standards help with this: architecture supports the information strategy, and standards make information exchange between organisations easier.
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Governance on architecture

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Working under architecture is the approach for digital transformation in context. This does require making and keeping agreements. This requires governance. "Not everything is clear yet, but you are talking to each other."

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Open Education API broadens educational horizons

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Imagine this: a student is taking a course at another faculty, institution or abroad. The results are automatically transferred, without any manual work, minimising the risk of errors. More and more institutions in vocational education (MBO), higher professional education (HBO) and university education (WO) are using the Open Education API (OEAPI) for this purpose. This standard makes collaboration between different systems easier.

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"The OOAPI is basically a common language, allowing institutions to collaborate"

Future-proof progress: 4 questions on the Open Education API

Version 6 of the Open Education API (OOAPI) is out! What this means, and why it is especially important for institutions right now, is explained by three members of the new steering group that oversees this shared standard. “OOAPI ultimately saves you a lot of work.”
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The foundation of digital transformation: architecture

The digital transformation is thundering forward and triggering major changes. Also in education and research, both within institutions, nationally and increasingly at European level. How do we keep direction? We talk to three experts about this. "I think we live in a great time," says one.
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What you need to know about... APIs

How can we help students switch effortlessly between subjects, modules and even educational institutions? How do we make studying more accessible, without technical obstacles getting in the way? The solution lies in OOAPI: the Open Education Application Programming Interface.

Whitepapers

Three white papers have been published on working with architecture. The focus of these whitepapers is on working with architecture within higher education in a multimodal environment: