Seite 27 - General Recommendation for the Award of Credit - JOSEF
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Advanced Training Programme “JOSEF”
The Expert Examiner’s Appraisal
By Matthias Schoof (Dipl.-Ing.)
“Both the assessment of the con-
tent match and the assessment of
the differences between the learning
outcomes of the analysed advanced
training programme and those of the
reference degree programme can be
summarised as follows:
Major differences result from a lack
of comparable contents in the Mas-
ter programme for the JOSEF module
“New Technologies”. The module items
“Benchmarking of New Technologies”
and “Focus Area Mobility – Sustainabi-
lity – Energy and Electro Mobility” have
no comparable content in the Master
programme. Furthermore, the topic “Na-
tional Innovation Systems” which cons-
titutes one of six missions in the JOSEF
module “Innovation Management” and
in which the national innovation sys-
tems of different countries are treated, is
not taken into account in a comparable
manner in the Master programme. Since
the contents of these modules are high-
ly suitable with the Master programme,
they could well find their way into a
module of the elective section. There-
fore, I recommend an award of credit of
the workload despite a missing content
match.
A higher degree of equivalence was
found between the JOSEF modules “In-
novation Management” and “Technolo-
gy Management” and the Master pro-
gramme study modules “Consequences
of Innovation and Social Responsibi-
lity”, “Innovation and Marketing” and
“Innovation and Knowledge Manage-
ment”. The assessment did not identify
any complete content equivalence bet-
ween one particular JOSEF module and
a specific Master programme module.
A content match of about 50 % can be
found between the JOSEF modules “In-
novation Management” and “Technolo-
gy Management” and their comparable
counterparts of the Master programme,
namely “Innovation and Marketing”
and “Innovation and Knowledge Ma-
nagement”, when they are combined
and then compared to the respective
Master modules.
A level comparison of the Master
programme’s study modules that were
selected due to their content match
with the JOSEF modules showed that in
particular the examples of the examina-
tion performance used for the assess-
ment confirm that they have almost the
same academic level.
Based on the self-estimated workload
of 180 hours by a dedicated and am-
bitious participant, the high degree of
content match and the relatively low
difference in academic level, I recom-
mend a general award of credit with 6
CPs. However, I do not recommend the
award of credit for a particular study
module of the Master programme.”
The Expert Examiner
In the person of Mr. Matthias
Schoof, a nonpartisan expert exa-
miner was commissioned for the
equivalence check. Matthias Schoof
holds a diploma in engineering and
is the director of Technology Trans-
fer and the head of the Centre for
Vocational Training at the
Fachhoch-
schule Emden-Leer
(University of Ap-
plied Sciences).
Mr. Schoof holds a diploma in en-
gineering with a specialisation in
mechanical engineering from the
TechnischeUniversitätBraunschweig
(Uni-
versity Braunschweig – Institute of
Technology).
Contact details
matthias.schoof@hs-emden-
leer.de
Fon: +49 (0)4921/ 807-1385
or -1441
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