Following up on the Qingdao declaration in the International Forum on ICT and Education 2030 Qingdao, China, July 10, 2017,Three candidate actions was suggested based on their possible impact for digital innovations in education.

1. Promoting Digital Innovations for SDG 4: Global Partnership
To Be the Global Facilitator for Inclusive, Flexible,
Quality Learning and Teaching in the Digital Age
International Forum on ICT and Education 2030
Qingdao, China, July 10, 2017
Gard Titlestad, Secretary General
International Council for Open and Distance Education
Member of the Governing Board
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2. Outline
• Introduction and ICDE
• The policies that should lead to significant
actions and digital innovations
• Trends and selected examples on ICDE actions
• Three candidates for global partnership for
digital innovation

3. Open, Transparent,
Accountable and focus
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To be the global facilitator for inclusive, flexible, quality learning and teaching in the digital age.
ICDE

4. To be the global facilitator for inclusive, flexible, quality learning and teaching in the digital age.
ICDE membership
164 institutional members – all world regions
15 international associations
9 networks/national associations
50 individual members
163 doctoral students

5. Events
ICDE International Conference
Lifelong Learning,
Lillehammer February 11. – 13. 2019
1.Emerging Pedagogies and Designs for
Online Learning
2.Expanding Access, Openness and
Flexibility
3.Changing Models of Assessment
4.New Delivery Tools and Resources for
Learning
5.Re-designed Institutional Business
Models

6. May2015

7. UNESCO HEADQUARTERS, PARIS, FRANCE.
ONLINE, OPEN AND FLEXIBLE HIGHER EDUCATION
FOR THE FUTURE WE WANT
FROM STATEMENTS TO ACTION: EQUITY, ACCESS, AND QUALITY LEARNING OUTCOMES
ORGANISED BY UNESCO AND ICDE
The Paris Message
June 2015
We call on Governments and Intergovernmental Organisations to:
1. Undertake continuous monitoring and evaluation, including uptake and outcomes of
Online, Open and Flexible systems.
2. Promote North-South-South collaboration in Online, Open, Flexible Higher Education
to support development in the developing and least developed countries. Financial
support will be needed for seed money to engage in collaborative initiatives.
3. Give consideration to:
 Initiatives for quality summits setting policy directions in the world regions.
 Promotion of doctoral student programmes to create opportunities for
collaboration, networking and support for participation and visibility in events,
networks and projects.
 Strengthening global collaboration on R&D relevant to online, open and flexible
higher education.

8. Target 3, point 43.:
A well-established, properly-
regulated tertiary education system
supported by technology, Open
Educational Resources (OERs) and
distance education modalities can
increase access, equity, quality and
relevance, and narrow the gap
between what is taught at tertiary
education institutions and what
economies and societies demand.
The provision of tertiary education
should be progressively free, in line
with existing international
agreements.
November 2015

9. The vision is that for the first time
in human history it is possible to
achieve inclusive and quality
education for all.
(Sustainable Development Goal 4)

10. Enabled by Open and
Digitalisation
Creative Commons

11. In the findings
“Open education providers are also gaining ground.
Gross enrolment rates in Turkey grew from 30% in 2004
to 86% in 2014 in part due to distance education
enrolments. Over 1.7 million undergraduate students
enrolled at Anadolu University in 2014, almost a third of
all higher education enrolments in the country (Tekneci,
2016).”
April 2017
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First policy paper on HE since 2015:
ICT in the
word pICTure

12. will not be met unless stakeholders, drawing on humanistic
values, collaborate to lead the digital transformation of higher
education - making online, open, flexible, and technology
enhanced learning a part of the solution.
May 2017

13. Higher Education
Trends in the digital era

14. 8 key trends
• Online and open goes mainstream
• Digitalisation tests relevance of educational providers
• Open E and Learning Analytics fuel innovation in education
• Shift to personalised learning and assessment
• Convergence of education, cognitive and neuroscience
• Lack of funding and lack of understanding of the concept of
online, open and flexible education – create hurdles
• Skills and lifelong learning a new global trend, with learners
in the centre: the new paradigm of lifelong learning
• Quality first!

15. • Awareness, advocacy, analysis related to digital, flexible and open
• Quality
– Global quality network
– Partner with UNESCO for Quality in Higher Education
– Global Doctoral Consortium
– Map models for online, open and technology enhanced education
• Knowledge exchange – clustering
– Learning analytics
– Collaborative online international learning COIL
– Blended learning
• OER and open initiatives
– ICDE OER Chairs
– Global Open Library? Connecting OER repositories
• Aim for North-South-South Initiatives, partnering with UNESCO
• Events, conferences and webinars
ICDE actions

16. UNESCO INITIATIVE FOR HIGHER EDUCATION
Regional
conferences on
quality
assurance
International
conference on
quality
assurance
Global
convention on
recognition of
qualifications
Global Congress
on higher
education
2017 2018 2019 2020
Core partners Quality: ICDE, CoL and INQAAHE
PARTNERS AND INTERACTS
WITH UNESCO AND OTHERS
2nd OER World Congress September 2017

17. UNESCO Regional conferences on quality
assurance
• Global Doctoral Consortium
• Models for technology enhanced education
• Global Quality Network
Analysis
Reports
Insight briefs
Actions, events and
communities
ICDE Quality initiative

18. To be the global facilitator for inclusive, flexible, quality learning and teaching in the digital age.
ICDE Global Quality Network
• Observe and analyse
• Contribute to UNESCO events and reports
• Suggest policies and actions
• Contribute to state of the art quality online, open, flexible
and technology enhanced learning

19. ICDE Global Doctoral Consortium
To be the global facilitator for inclusive, flexible, quality learning and teaching in the digital age.
Africa 50
Asia 30
Arab 7
Europe 46
North Am. 16
Oceania 4
South Am. 10

21. First action for global partnership
for digital innovation
A sustained, global doctoral consortium
for online, open, flexible and
technology enhanced Education 2030

22. Project in the pipeline:
Connecting Quality OER
Repositories
Feasibility study for a Global Online and Open Library

23. • The vision for this initiative is through a collaborative effort
inspired by, and within the framework of the SDG 4
Education 2030: to design, test, establish, scale up and
sustain a global open and online library.
• The core pillars of the initiative are quality labelled
repositories, were the initiative provide a platform.
Therefore we call the initiative Global Open and Online
Libraries - GOOLs.
• While the pillars are the repositories, the focus is on the
use and usability of the repositories as a networked cluster.
• Tertiary and upper secondary education is within the scope
of the initiative.
The vision

24. Second action for global partnership
for digital innovation
Global Online and Open Libraries
(networking quality OER
repositories)

27. Third action for global partnership
for digital innovation
Initiate an inclusive, collaborative open
platform for teachers, for teachers
education and training of teachers
trainers – innovate education now!

28. • A sustained, global doctoral consortium for online,
open, flexible and technology enhanced Education
2030
• Global Online and Open Libraries (networking quality
OER repositories)
• Initiate an inclusive, collaborative open platform for
teachers, for teachers education and training of
teachers trainers – innovate education now!
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transformation
Three suggestions for action for global
partnership for digital innovation
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29. ”TOWARDS INCLUSIVE AND EQUITABLE
QUALITY EDUCATION AND LIFELONG
LEARNING FOR ALL”
Sustainable Development Goal 4: Education 2030
THANK YOU!
titlestad@icde.org
www.icde.org
Seize digital opportunities,
lead education
transformation