Margaret Wenger

Margaret Wenger has worked at Educational Credential Evaluators, Inc., a non-profit credential evaluation agency located in the US, since 1990, currently holding the position of Senior Director of Evaluation. As SDE, Meg leads evaluation policy development, new evaluator training, and coordinates quality assurance efforts. She is the author of ECE Presents: The Educational System of Tunisia and The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Its Educational System and Methods of Evaluation, as well as contributing to the NAFSA Guide to Educational Systems Around the World (1998 and 2009) and other publications. She has given workshops at number of international conferences including NAFSA, NAGAP, CGS, and EAIE. She chairs TAICEP’s (The Association for International Credential Evaluation Professionals) task force on Digital Student Data and serves on the board of directors of the Groningen Declaration Network.


Sessions

12-01
11:15
30min
Credential evaluation and its role in the student data ecosystem
Margaret Wenger

Credential evaluators both send and receive student data. We have to be able to accommodate paper and digital documents in various formats. We play a key role in learner mobility and provide a way for educational achievements to be recognized across borders. The presenter will discuss the challenges and opportunities presented by the work of credential evaluators and our impact on learner mobility.

Digital Credentials and Trust Networks Track
Stage 1, Leibniz-Saal, BBAW
12-01
12:30
60min
Urgent policy questions to advance flexible and alternative learning pathways
Kathleen Clancy, Margaret Wenger, Thomas Weko, Udbhav Tiwari, Koen Nomden, Rolf Reinhardt

How can globally interoperable digital credentials in education be achieved and which policy actions are necessary to achieve international standards and recognition?

Digital Credentials and Trust Networks Track
Stage 1, Leibniz-Saal, BBAW