PESC | BEST PRACTICES | ANNUAL COMPETITION

TAICEP Digital Credential Providers Hub Awarded 1st Place in PESC 23rd Annual Best Practices for Credential Evaluation

24th ANNUAL

BEST PRACTICES COMPETITION

PESC's 24th Annual Best Practices Competition recognizes, highlights and promotes innovation and ingenuity in the application and implementation of interoperable data standards for business needs.

The 1st Best Practices Competition, held in 1999, was awarded to the Ontario Universities' Application Centre (OUAC) for its submission, "Model of an Electronic Standardization Initiative: Ontario Universities Electronic Transcript (OUETS) System."

The Annual Best Practices Competition is open to institutions (colleges, universities, systems), associations, organizations, government agencies and departments, districts, consortia, non-profit and commercial service providers and their education stakeholders that have collaborated to design and/or adopt an electronic standardization initiative (e.g. published articles, white papers, pilots, demonstrations and implementations).

The PESC 24th Annual Best Practices Competition is open for submissions through March 31, 2023.

Submissions can/may include documentation, artifacts and descriptions of the scope of a project, participants and partners, types of standards employed, relevant dates and project milestones, copies of articles (if an article submission), outline of mission or objectives and any related statistics (# of transactions transmitted, estimated cost savings, etc.).

DEVELOP

Collaborative, Real Solutions

MAXIMIZE

Automated, Reusable &

Sustainable Technologies

IMPROVE

Institutional Performance,

Student & Service Delivery,

Overall Connectivity

Between Stakeholders

The 24th Annual Best Practices Competition for 2022/2023 is open.

All entries and submissions should be submitted by March 31, 2023 to Michael.Sessa@PESC.org or at: Michael Sessa, President & CEO, PESC, 1250 Connecticut Avenue, NW Suite 700 Washington, DC 20036.

All entries will be judged by the PESC Board of Directors. First place and those receiving special recognition will be notified immediately by PESC, an official public announcement will be made immediately before PESC’s April Meeting, and the award ceremony will be made during the General Session.

ABOUT EXPANDED BEST PRACTICES

1) Three separate categories of Best Practices are open for submissions (by region, by role, by technology).

2) Awards may be made each year for each of the three separate categories; and multiple awards may be made each year under each category.

3) The PESC Board Review Committee may determine that no award be made in a given year under one or more categories.

Hallmarks of Best Practices

While innovation and meeting customer needs will continue to ensure the rapid evolution of systems, applications, networks, products and services, those PESC recognizes as 'Best Practice' all share the use and inclusion of:

- Common Data Standards

- Unique Identifiers &

Standardized Code Sets

- Quality Control Measures

- Controlled Access & Security

- Comprehensive Management Support

- Flexibility & Scalability

- Student/Learner-Centric

- Formal Data Governance

ANNUAL AWARD WINNERS

23rd 1st Place Winners 2021 2022

TAICEP
Digital Credential Providers Hub
for Credential Evaluation

A4L/Student Data Privacy Consortium
SDPC Resource Registry
for Operational Privacy