Make the difference: ICDE Featured session at the Annual Online Learning Consortium International Conference
- 1. Make the difference! Global Trends in Open, Distance and e-Learning Gard Titlestad, Secretary General International Council For Open and Distance Education
- 2. • To be the leading global network for making quality learning accessible throughout the world using open, distance, flexible and online education. • To connect institutions, organisations and professionals from across the globe so that they can share ideas, resources and best practices, partner on major projects and advocate together. • To be the official partner of UNESCO, that shares that agency’s key aim – the attainment of quality education for all • ICDE believes that in pursuing education as a universal right, the needs of the learner must be central. • To organize members in all regions of the world 25 Years Support From Norway Why is ICDE here?
- 3. Issues: • Future policies for ODL • Quality oversight and the road ahead • Student Success • Global research agenda on ODL • Academic quality
- 4. Two policy forum planned, input factors on the issues: 20 November 2014: Open Education Key issues in policy for governments and senior management in higher education Interventions, from UNESCO, ICDE and stakeholders from organisations, public and private sector High Level Policy Forum 17 October 2015: Open Education: Key issues and policy advices for governments and senior management in higher education
- 5. Initiatives to forward oriented discussions, example: • Support Open Education 2.0 – why, what, where, when – To be discussed at Online EDUCA – http://www.online-educa.com/programme
- 6. Ongoing Global Dialogue Other events in the near future International Conference Moscow, 14-15 October New Challenges for Pedagogy and Quality Education: MOOCs, Clouds and Mobiles Participation and keynote, followed by governing board Participation, keynote and panel on international associations ICDE Featured Session and Participation. Partner meetings.
- 7. Partnership and collaboration To make a difference through open education!
- 8. Why?
- 9. Education: Power to transform 2 Skills transform lives and drive economies literacy skills (scoring at PIAAC Level 4/5 compared with those scoring at Level 1 or below) 3,0 2,5 2,0 1,5 1,0 Increased likelihood of positive outcomes for adults with higher Being Employed High wages Good to excellent health Participation in volunteer activities High levels of political efficacy High levels of trust Odds ratio Andreas Schleicher, OECD, Wellington, 28 March 2014
- 11. Education Average years of education Years of education West-Europe The world Africa south of Sahara This is our Challenge Source: Aftenposten/OECD. How Was Life? Shows long-term progress in key areas of well-being
- 12. Not possible without open and distance eduction.
- 14. The BIG picture • The growth in higher education is massive
- 15. 2030 2044 400 320 2007 - 2030 Mill. students EU/OECD projections the need for HE by 2030: 410 mill. This is our Challenge
- 16. Not possible without open and distance eduction.
- 17. The future hot spots - - Credit: A. Raftery / UW World population stabilization unlikely this century. Science, 18 September 2014
- 18. Not only volume • The changes in higher education is dramatic
- 19. Opening up the road to knowledge
- 20. Opening up?
- 21. Automation Robots Sensors 2020 – 80% connected Internet of things Open Research Cost OER eScience Open knowledge Globalisation Societal needs Technology Flexibility Students needs and expectations Trends, within the framwork of globalisation and internationalisation HE needs – 1 U a week Enabling economic growth Demographics Access Open Access eInfrastructures Open Data Open Innovation US quadruppling Southern Europe…. Developing economies Employability ICT Habitus Lifelong Open knowledge
- 22. 8 Things You Should Know About MOOCs By Jonah Newman and Soo Oh, June 13, 2014 (Harvard and MIT data) http://chronicle.com/article/8-Things-You-Should-Know-About/146901/ • 1. The overwhelming majority of MOOC students are male • 2. MOOCs attract students who already have college degrees • 3. The median age of MOOC participants is 24 • 4. One-third of MOOC participants are from North America • 5. Nearly half of registrants never engage with any of the content • 6. Europeans view the most course content • 7. Students with a doctorate viewed more course material • 8. Serial students are the most engaged
- 23. The Open University Catalunia Innovate from within, put faculty in the lead 2014 2011 The Innovative University: What College Presidents Think About Change in American Higher Education, Chronicle
- 24. Trends
- 25. The BIG Picture • Open, Online and Distance Education is steadily increasing all over the world India Sweden Russia South America The US Africa Australia China
- 26. January 2014
- 27. 1200000 1000000 800000 600000 400000 200000 0 Total Público Privado Alunos de graduação a distancia no Brasil 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Carlos Bielschowsky President of Aiesad and Fundação CECIERJ
- 28. The BIG picture • Online, Distance (ODL) and on Campus Learning are converging => Blended ODL Blended Campus • And as a result – an even more diverse higher education landscape……
- 29. Kavli Science Forum: "Higher Education in the 21st Century - The Technological Revolution in Open Education: The Death of a Traditional System or the Next Wave of Democracy?" http://www.kavliprize.org/events-and-features/2014-kavli-prize-science-forum
- 30. The BIG picture • Three streams work in parallel: – Online becomes mature – and Internet/mobile: freedom from distance, mobile broadband: freedom from location – New methodologies, content and pedagogy – new opportunities for student supportive teaching – New knowledge about the brain and learning, new knowledge in neurosciences
- 31. BIG The Governments move…..
- 32. IOMS (IT Operations Management system) “Cloud-based” technology support model ISMS (Information security management system) Software & Education resource Services （ Open, shared, quality and massive education resources …… and e-learning software （ Platform Services （ Portal, CAS, Teaching, Managing, Support service, Research, etc.（ Infrastructure Services （ IDC, Computing and storage pools, high-speed network （ … … … … Mobile Internet Satellite Network VPN Internet Cloud Networks Terminals OUC Pad Cloud Desktop Cloud TV Cloud Phone Cloud Classroom Ref. Yang Zhijian, president Open University of China, ICDE world Conference, Tianjin, China October 2013
- 33. “Promote open educational resources, to help teachers and students everywhere.” http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/09/24/celebrating-open-government-around-globe
- 34. Open and Online Moves into the political agenda
- 35. Round table discussion, State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation “On-line and e-learning, open educational resources, MOOCs, smart-education and other e-technologies and e-resources: Legislative and regulatory support for their development and application in national educational systems. Russian and foreign experience” Moscow, 24 September 2014 Gard Titlestad, Secretary General International Council For Open and Distance Education
- 37. The Small Governments move…..
- 38. • The Norwegian MOOC Commission was appointed by Royal Decree on 21 June 2013. • Final report, green paper, June 2014. • Now on broad consultation • A white paper on structures and financial regulations foreseen in 2015. http://www.regjeringen.no/mobil/nb/dep/kd/dok/nouer/2014/NOU-2014-51.html?id=766892
- 39. The Regions move….. http://www.faberface.com/
- 40. The European Commission's Opening up Education initiative in a nutshell ”The main goal of this initiative is to stimulate ways of learning and teaching through ICT and digital content, mainly through the development and availability of OER.” http://www.openeducationeuropa.eu/en/initiative
- 44. OER and Open and Distance Learning can increase the impact of investments in knowledge OER & ODL Open Access – open science Research based OER Research based teaching High quality education Research based education Resource based education Open education Innovation in education – open innovation Innovate the learning system – flip the classroom Knowledge supply for innovation
- 45. 2012 Paris OER Declaration 1. Foster awareness and use of OER 2. Facilitate enabling environments for use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) 3. Reinforce the development of strategies and policies on OER 4. Promote the understanding and use of open licensing frameworks 5. Support capacity building for the sustainable development of quality learning materials 6. Foster strategic alliances for OER 7. Encourage the development and adaptation of OER in a variety of languages/cultural contexts 8. Encourage research on OER 9. Facilitate finding, retrieving and sharing of OER 10.Encourage the open licensing of educational materials produced with public funds
- 47. THE STATE OF HIGHER EDUCATION: Selected key findings and rec. • Findings • The public and individuals benefit from higher education, HE, in financial and non financial ways. – HE generates positive returns to the public in general, as well as to the people who obtain degrees. • HE without a degree does not boost earnings. – Although there are some benefits to HEparticipation, even if no degree is earned, drop-outs do not usually enjoy the same financial returns that degree holders can expect.
- 48. Better integration of education and vaulue chains needed http://www.africaneconomicoutlook.org/en/
- 50. The BIG picture • We are in the beginning (of the beginning) – example: mobile technology
- 51. Image: O3b Networks Google's Project Loon uses big networked air balloons to fill internet black holes Google to launch 180 satellites in $1bn plan to cover the unwired Several initiatives for covering the unwired underway
- 52. African Undersea Cables Picture updated May 2014 We are in the beginning of the beginning http://manypossibilities.net/african-undersea-cables/
- 54. The way ahead
- 55. • Senior management in education needs to innovate from within, put faculty in lead, to open up education. • Governments must take firm decision on holistic policies for open and distance education. • Stakeholders should team up meeting the two grand challenges through open education and technology enhanced learning.
- 57. Two policy forum planned, Future directions for ODL: 20 November 2014: Open Education Key issues in policy for governments and senior management in higher education Interventions, from UNESCO, ICDE and stakeholders from organisations, public and private sector High Level Policy Forum 17 October 2015: Open Education: Key issues and policy advices for governments and senior management in higher education
- 58. an old African proverb "If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."
- 59. Thank you [email protected] www.icde.org