Synergy Effect of the TeSLA Project in Management of Engineering Higher Education

The goal of the TeSLA project is to create mutual trust between learners, teachers and an institution, which provides distance learning. It is achieved through the incorporation and widespread use of innovative information and communication technologies (ICT) tools for the purpose of assessment activities in the educational process at higher education institutions and its transformation into e-assessment. In this ambitious project five technological tools (face recognition, voice recognition, writing style analysis, typing rhythm, plagiarism analysis) have been developed and piloted at seven universities. Their role for mutually trusted assessment in the educational process is discussed. Assessment activities in typical engineering subjects are shown. It is pointed out that assessment functions are management functions with a key decision making role. Pilot studies within the TeSLA project have shown additional effects leading to the expansion of its application areas. This synergy effect is shown to appear in increasing the degree of automation and improving the quality of the overall learning process, integration with other subject areas in the context of interoperability, achieving higher degree of security and protection of personal data.