Policy perspectives on Open Educational Resources: The world has got a new educational policy – a global shift. The Incheon Declaration. The Qingdao Declaration. Two major Global Challenges for Higher Education towards 2030: average education and economic growth, enrolment in higher education. Drivers for Opening up for Knowledge: Open, Technology, Costs, Demographics and Learners. Policy for Less used Languages - a policy brief for governments. What about Norden? End

1. Policy perspectives on Open
Educational Resources
Scaling up the use of Open Educational Resources in the Nordic countries
Gard Titlestad, Secretary General
International Council For Open and Distance Education
Copenhagen, Denmark, 18 June 2015
Nordic OER

2. Outline
• ICDE and the topic
• A new educational policy – a global shift
• The Global Challenge – Higher Education
• Drivers for Opening up for Knowledge
• Policy for Less used Languages
• What about Norden?
• End

3. • 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 ICDE?
Partner with
UNESCO
50 years

4. Professor Alan TaitDirector,
International Development
and Teacher Education,
Open University, UK
represented ICDE in
Incheon together with the
ICDE Secretary General.
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0023/0023
31/233137e.pdf

5. Here, the ministers sign the Qingdao
declaration. ICDE was represented by
the Secretary General
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0023
/002333/233352E.pdf

6. Open Educational Resources and Open
Solutions – the Qingdao declaration:
”Open Educational Resources (OERs) provide
education stakeholders with opportunities to improve
the quality of, and expand access to, textbooks and
other forms of learning content, to catalyze the
innovative use of content, and to foster knowledge
creation. We commit to developing sector-wide
strategies and capacity building programmes to fully
realize the potential of OERs to expand access to
lifelong learning opportunities and achieve quality
education.”

7. Education
Average years of education
The world Africa south of SaharaYears of education West-Europe
This is our
Challenge
Source: Aftenposten/OECD. How Was Life?
Shows long-term progress in key areas of well-being

8. 20442030
320
400
2007 - 2030
Mill. students
EU/OECD projections
the need for HE
by 2030: 410 mill.
This is our
Challenge
Cannot be solved by
bricks and mortar
Combine Bricks and Clicks

9. • Increasing quality of
education and
enrolment in higher
education is key
issues for the African
economy – now.

10. The future hot
spots for higher
education
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Credit: A. Raftery / UW
World population stabilization unlikely this century.
Science, 18 September 2014

11. Open
knowledge
Societal needs
Technology
Students needs
and
expectations
OERCost
Trends, within
the framwork of globalisation
and internationalisation
HE needs – 1 U a week
Demographics
Globalisation
Enabling economic growth
Access
Open Access
eInfrastructures
eScience
Automation
Robots Sensors
2020 – 80% connected
Internet of things Open Research
Open Data
Open Innovation
US quadruppling
Southern Europe….
Developing economies
ICT Habitus
Flexibility
Employability
Lifelong
Open up
for
knowledge

12. 3 recommendations
12 languages

15. 9 – 11 JUNE 2015, UNESCO HEADQUARTERS, PARIS, FRANCE.
BE PART OF A DIFFERENT FUTURE FOR HIGHER
EDUCATION.
GLOBAL HIGH LEVEL POLICY FORUM:
ONLINE, OPEN AND FLEXIBLE HIGHER
EDUCATION
FOR THE FUTURE WE WANT
FROM STATEMENTS TO ACTION: EQUITY, ACCESS, AND QUALITY
LEARNING OUTCOMES

16. Online, Open, and Flexible Higher Education
for the Future We Want: Policy Challenges
A Background Report Prepared by the
International Council of Open and Distance
Education (ICDE) for the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO)
June 2015

17. SURVEY RESULTS
What We Heard – Perspectives and
Experiences from 105 Educational
Leaders from 53 Countries
The findings verify the policy
recommendations!

19. E-Learning in Higher Education in Latin
America
Rec. 1: For
Governments to Adopt
national policies in
support of Open
Educational Resources
in less used languages.

21. Rec 2: For Governments to
Facilitate in partnership with
private, public and the
educational sector, market
places and collaborative
arenas for quality OER.

22. • The USAID led
initiative works on
the same as policy
recommendation
no 3:
– Frameworks and
standards

23. Rec 3: For Governments to
Take the leadership in
facilitating the development
of open frameworks and
standards to ease the ability
of OER repositories and
systems to work together
(provide and accept
educational content,
compatible applications and
contextualised services).

24. Creating momentum
through policy fora:
2 done, 1 to come
20 November 2014: Open Education
Key issues in policy for higher education
High Level Policy Forum 17 October 2015,
Pretoria, South Africa:
“Higher education for the sustainable future we
want. The way ahead for Online, Open and Flexible
learning: Opportunities and Actions.”
ICDE in partership with UNESCO, CoL and OEC
Interventions, from UNESCO, ICDE and
key experts and senior management:
The Bali Message
Global High Level Forum in Paris
9 – 11 JUNE 2015:
Online, open and flexible higher
education for the future we want
UNESCO – in partnership with ICDE

25. ?
A great point of departure
And a wake up call

27. Where the Digital
Economy Is Moving the
Fastest
Bhaskar Chakravorti
Christopher Tunnard Ravi
Shankar Chaturvedi
FEBRUARY 19, 2015
Now
Used to
be

28. Should Nordic higher education
policies be revised?
Mainstream the Open Approach
- and:
- Collaboration is key

29. 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
Innovation in education – open innovation
Innovate the learning system – flip the classroom
Knowledge supply for innovation
High quality education
Research based education
Resource based education
Open education

30. Sunset or Sunrise for
businesses?
• Position your
business for the
sunrise and the
open landscape
• Avoid fighting for
your last turf in
the sunset

31. “It is not only having equal access that
leads to equity; it is having equal access to
success, regardless of learning difficulties,
social backgrounds, and other barriers.”
20 November 2014: Open Educa on
Key issues in policy for higher educa on
Interven ons, from UNESCO, ICDE and
key experts and senior management:
The Bali Message

32. Thank you
titlestad@icde.org
www.icde.org