Challenges for policies, strategies and leadership in an increasingly more open and online world. Distance and e-Learning Policy and Strategy, EDEN Annual Conference 2012, Porto, 7 June 2012. Gard Titlestad, Secretary General, ICDE
Education and learning is probably that single phenomenon that has the greatest impact on humans and societies, in particular in a long-term perspective (OECD 2014).
Grand challenge number one is to breach the trend preventing developing countries, in particular South of Everyone aspiring for higher education should have the right to affordable access. This is grand challenge number two. And it cannot be met without open education and technology enhanced learning.Sahara, taking part in the global knowledge revolution.
Three messages:
• Senior management in education needs to innovate from within 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.
Keynote held at the International ICDE-MESI conference "Connecting the World through Open, Distance and e-Learning" in Moscow, Russia, 25 September 2014. The conference had about 200 participants from about 40 countries.
What can higher education contribute to developing skills for the knowledge economy?Strategies for higher education in a more open and online world: the role of open and distance learning.
Make the difference: ICDE Featured session at the Annual Online Learning Cons...icdeslides
While education is more popular than ever, huge gaps have to be tackled to achieve quality education for all, Trends and cases in different parts of the world will be highlighted. What is the impact of Open Education Resources, OER, and ODE? And how ICDE can contribute to a future oriented, collaborative platform for global educational achievements? MOOCs is discussed as a possible enabler for a new pedagogy.
Education and learning is probably that single phenomenon that has the greatest impact on humans and societies, in particular in a long-term perspective (OECD 2014).
Grand challenge number one is to breach the trend preventing developing countries, in particular South of Sahara, taking part in the global knowledge revolution. Everyone aspiring for higher education should have the right to affordable access. This is grand challenge number two. And it cannot be met without open education and technology enhanced learning.
Three messages:
• Senior management in education needs to innovate from within 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.
My presentation at OEB21 Shaping the Future of Learning
Diverse. Collaborative. Transformative
on The New Normal is about Resilience, Sustainability, and the Social Contract
Challenges for policies, strategies and leadership in an increasingly more open and online world. Distance and e-Learning Policy and Strategy, EDEN Annual Conference 2012, Porto, 7 June 2012. Gard Titlestad, Secretary General, ICDE
Education and learning is probably that single phenomenon that has the greatest impact on humans and societies, in particular in a long-term perspective (OECD 2014).
Grand challenge number one is to breach the trend preventing developing countries, in particular South of Everyone aspiring for higher education should have the right to affordable access. This is grand challenge number two. And it cannot be met without open education and technology enhanced learning.Sahara, taking part in the global knowledge revolution.
Three messages:
• Senior management in education needs to innovate from within 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.
Keynote held at the International ICDE-MESI conference "Connecting the World through Open, Distance and e-Learning" in Moscow, Russia, 25 September 2014. The conference had about 200 participants from about 40 countries.
What can higher education contribute to developing skills for the knowledge economy?Strategies for higher education in a more open and online world: the role of open and distance learning.
Make the difference: ICDE Featured session at the Annual Online Learning Cons...icdeslides
While education is more popular than ever, huge gaps have to be tackled to achieve quality education for all, Trends and cases in different parts of the world will be highlighted. What is the impact of Open Education Resources, OER, and ODE? And how ICDE can contribute to a future oriented, collaborative platform for global educational achievements? MOOCs is discussed as a possible enabler for a new pedagogy.
Education and learning is probably that single phenomenon that has the greatest impact on humans and societies, in particular in a long-term perspective (OECD 2014).
Grand challenge number one is to breach the trend preventing developing countries, in particular South of Sahara, taking part in the global knowledge revolution. Everyone aspiring for higher education should have the right to affordable access. This is grand challenge number two. And it cannot be met without open education and technology enhanced learning.
Three messages:
• Senior management in education needs to innovate from within 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.
My presentation at OEB21 Shaping the Future of Learning
Diverse. Collaborative. Transformative
on The New Normal is about Resilience, Sustainability, and the Social Contract
The Value of Distance Education: Burden or Blessing?Mark Brown
Presentation at the Graduate Employment Conference: The Economic Value of Higher Education. Commonwealth Association of Universities, Auckland, 12th July, 2013.
How education system suddenly changes due to COVID-19. It's problem and solution faced by both teachers and students and how it's going to effect on future generation.
The findings, drawn from a larger study, are based on interviews with students. They were a mix of ages and most were working.
Most students said they took online courses because of the flexible schedule, and some older students said they preferred a virtual classroom because they didn’t have to interact with their younger classmates.
But most said they missed the personal back-and-forth of the classroom.
Presentation at University of Nicosia (Academics) Current global trends and challenges ahead for quality assurance in the field of open online learning and eLearning
ReimaginED 2015: Trends in K12 EducationDavid Havens
We’re living in a time of tremendous technological change. In the next five years, another billion people will gain access to the internet. By 2020, 80% of the adults on Earth will have a smartphone, double what it is today.
We started the Seed Fund to seek out those places where technological change might be leveraged to improve education, and there is much to improve about our current system. One of the most troubling trends of the last decade is the decrease in educational mobility. As a country, we are doing worse than most at educating our neediest kids which now account for just over half of public school children.
For our neediest children, the problems are cumulative. A series of school failures and missed opportunities add up to an education of accumulated disadvantage, a reverse Matthew Effect of sorts. Our team is focused on how technology can be used to reduce and even eliminate these obstacles so that our school system is an escalator to opportunity for all.
We’ve invested in over 40 teams scaling ideas to improve our education system by empowering students, educators and families with the best tools technology has to offer. Through this lens, we share our second ReImaginED deck. Inspired by KPCB’s Mary Meeker’s widely shared Internet Trends deck, we set out to expose data about our K-12 education system and highlight some of the innovations in education technology. The goal of this deck is to draw out high level trends so it doesn’t include the human stories on the other side of these numbers and charts, see here for some of those.
In ReimaginED 2015 (building off the original published over a year ago), we review the latest systemic challenges, landscape shifts, and emerging innovations that are helping to solve these problems.
Let us know about other innovation trends you are seeing in the comments below or by sharing this on twitter, #ReimaginED2015.
(Cross-post from www.newschools.org/blog/reimagined2015, original post by Jennifer Carolan and David Havens)
NDLW International Power Point Wimba Wednesdayvideoreg
International: Collaborative Learning Globally
Sponsored & Hosted by: Wimba, Inc. (http://www.wimba.com/)
This webinar will explore a broad range of issues related to collaborative learning globally. Specific areas of interest may focus on what various countries are doing in regards to distance/open learning, distribution, policy, mobile and providing overall accesses to learning globally.
Online learning innovation for higher educationicdeslides
This keynote at the International Forum for Partnerships on the Qingdao Declaration, Qingdao, China, discusses new policies for online, open and flexible learning in relation to the new Sustainable Development Goal 4: Education 2030. A simple foresight for Education 2030 post secondary education is presented. Three principles for implementing Education 2030 (megapolicies: Innovation, Openness and Collaboration ) are illustrated with actual cases.
Online Teaching during Crises and Its Possible Impacts on Higher EducationQingjiang (Q. J.) Yao
Online teaching has been an auxiliary method in higher education for years, and its quality in comparison with traditional face-to-face teaching has been a long-time topic of scholarly examination and debate. This study aims at accessing the extent research about the comparison in qualities of online and face-to-face teachings, their practices in the ongoing pandemic period, and the possible impacts of the large-scale practice of online teaching during this COVID pandemic on higher education in the long run.
The Future of Higher Education, the Future of Learningicdeslides
Presentation given at Higher Education Leadership Forum
Dubai, 12 – 13 November 2013 by Gard Titlestad, Secretary General, International Council For Open and Distance Education, ICDE
Promoting public policies and multinational organizations for distance educat...icdeslides
Theme
The theme chosen for the Conference is “Mobilizing Distance Education for Social Justice and Innovation”, that is to say, contributing to mobilize Distance Education in its many modalities and forms, to build and transfer knowledge aimed at achieving valuable goals for societies that defend innovation and social justice.
The conference thus addresses one of the current priorities of international bodies such as the UNESCO’s “Education for All”, the OEI’s “Educational Goals XXI” and the European Union’s “Horizon Program 2020”, all of them geared to innovating to achieve intelligent, safe and inclusive societies.
The Value of Distance Education: Burden or Blessing?Mark Brown
Presentation at the Graduate Employment Conference: The Economic Value of Higher Education. Commonwealth Association of Universities, Auckland, 12th July, 2013.
How education system suddenly changes due to COVID-19. It's problem and solution faced by both teachers and students and how it's going to effect on future generation.
The findings, drawn from a larger study, are based on interviews with students. They were a mix of ages and most were working.
Most students said they took online courses because of the flexible schedule, and some older students said they preferred a virtual classroom because they didn’t have to interact with their younger classmates.
But most said they missed the personal back-and-forth of the classroom.
Presentation at University of Nicosia (Academics) Current global trends and challenges ahead for quality assurance in the field of open online learning and eLearning
ReimaginED 2015: Trends in K12 EducationDavid Havens
We’re living in a time of tremendous technological change. In the next five years, another billion people will gain access to the internet. By 2020, 80% of the adults on Earth will have a smartphone, double what it is today.
We started the Seed Fund to seek out those places where technological change might be leveraged to improve education, and there is much to improve about our current system. One of the most troubling trends of the last decade is the decrease in educational mobility. As a country, we are doing worse than most at educating our neediest kids which now account for just over half of public school children.
For our neediest children, the problems are cumulative. A series of school failures and missed opportunities add up to an education of accumulated disadvantage, a reverse Matthew Effect of sorts. Our team is focused on how technology can be used to reduce and even eliminate these obstacles so that our school system is an escalator to opportunity for all.
We’ve invested in over 40 teams scaling ideas to improve our education system by empowering students, educators and families with the best tools technology has to offer. Through this lens, we share our second ReImaginED deck. Inspired by KPCB’s Mary Meeker’s widely shared Internet Trends deck, we set out to expose data about our K-12 education system and highlight some of the innovations in education technology. The goal of this deck is to draw out high level trends so it doesn’t include the human stories on the other side of these numbers and charts, see here for some of those.
In ReimaginED 2015 (building off the original published over a year ago), we review the latest systemic challenges, landscape shifts, and emerging innovations that are helping to solve these problems.
Let us know about other innovation trends you are seeing in the comments below or by sharing this on twitter, #ReimaginED2015.
(Cross-post from www.newschools.org/blog/reimagined2015, original post by Jennifer Carolan and David Havens)
NDLW International Power Point Wimba Wednesdayvideoreg
International: Collaborative Learning Globally
Sponsored & Hosted by: Wimba, Inc. (http://www.wimba.com/)
This webinar will explore a broad range of issues related to collaborative learning globally. Specific areas of interest may focus on what various countries are doing in regards to distance/open learning, distribution, policy, mobile and providing overall accesses to learning globally.
Online learning innovation for higher educationicdeslides
This keynote at the International Forum for Partnerships on the Qingdao Declaration, Qingdao, China, discusses new policies for online, open and flexible learning in relation to the new Sustainable Development Goal 4: Education 2030. A simple foresight for Education 2030 post secondary education is presented. Three principles for implementing Education 2030 (megapolicies: Innovation, Openness and Collaboration ) are illustrated with actual cases.
Online Teaching during Crises and Its Possible Impacts on Higher EducationQingjiang (Q. J.) Yao
Online teaching has been an auxiliary method in higher education for years, and its quality in comparison with traditional face-to-face teaching has been a long-time topic of scholarly examination and debate. This study aims at accessing the extent research about the comparison in qualities of online and face-to-face teachings, their practices in the ongoing pandemic period, and the possible impacts of the large-scale practice of online teaching during this COVID pandemic on higher education in the long run.
The Future of Higher Education, the Future of Learningicdeslides
Presentation given at Higher Education Leadership Forum
Dubai, 12 – 13 November 2013 by Gard Titlestad, Secretary General, International Council For Open and Distance Education, ICDE
Promoting public policies and multinational organizations for distance educat...icdeslides
Theme
The theme chosen for the Conference is “Mobilizing Distance Education for Social Justice and Innovation”, that is to say, contributing to mobilize Distance Education in its many modalities and forms, to build and transfer knowledge aimed at achieving valuable goals for societies that defend innovation and social justice.
The conference thus addresses one of the current priorities of international bodies such as the UNESCO’s “Education for All”, the OEI’s “Educational Goals XXI” and the European Union’s “Horizon Program 2020”, all of them geared to innovating to achieve intelligent, safe and inclusive societies.
Make the difference - at the UNESCO IITE Conference 2014icdeslides
Education and learning is probably that single phenomenon that has the greatest impact on humans and societies, in particular in a long-term perspective (OECD 2014).
Grand challenge number one is to breach the trend preventing developing countries, in particular South of Sahara, taking part in the global knowledge revolution. Everyone aspiring for higher education should have the right to affordable access. This is grand challenge number two. And it cannot be met without open education and technology enhanced learning.
Three messages:
• Senior management in education needs to innovate from within 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.
The potential of #MOOC for learning at scale in the Global South. Diana Lauri...eraser Juan José Calderón
The potential of #MOOC for learning at scale in the Global South. Diana Laurillard y Eileen Kennedy. Centre for Global Higher Education working paper series. @ResearchCGHE
The big gaps in education, the trends in online, open and flexible education and the drivers for open creates the background for benchmarking the Nordic countries towards the globe. Competitiveness and innovation, Human capital, Network and technology readiness are benchmarks. So what: What are key concept to approach to go digital? Online, Open and Analytics are game changers - but not without leadership for change.
With a focus on Sweden and Scandinavian countries, the position for expanding and developing EdTech, is analyzed with in light of the rapid update of Online and Open education - and use of licensed educational resources, OER. The education sector has it's "Internet time" - how well is Sweden positioned?
Quality in online, open and flexible education - a global perspectiveicdeslides
A presentation from International Council for Open and Distance Education - ICDE at the VI Cread Andes Convention and VI Virtual Educa Ecuador Conference in Ecuador, 29 May - 1 June 2018
Higher education globalization: issues and opportunities - a foresighticdeslides
Celebrating the the 30th anniversary of the Inter-university Federation of Distance Learning, this panel discussed Higher education globalization: issues and opportunities. Open makes progress. Open access, open date, open science, open innovation , open education resources and open education have all made significant achievements the last years. However, this also leads to harder resistance and counter campaigns, in particular against OER from those defending their own market interests. This simple foresight discuss the role of mega policies as open, flexible innovation and cooperation to support achieving the sustainable developments goals.
Transform and innovate Higher Education for sustainable developmenticdeslides
This presentation given at the 20 years anniversary of the Hellenic Open University discusses Why transform Education? Why and what it means to transform and innovate for the future and how education can be transformed trough online, open, flexible and technology enhanced means.
Keynote at the EDEN initiative for an International conference "Open Professional Collaboration for Open Classroom", Organised by Vytautas Magnus University, Innovative Studies Institute
Transformation of Education in the Era of Openness and Flexibility is the title of this presentation, ambitious and complex to respond on - I choose to raise three question - Why transform, how to transform and transform for what?
Lifelong learning and distance educationicdeslides
This presentation was given at the 5th World Forum for Lifelong Learning in Madrid 27 September 2017, in a panel/roundtable on lifelong learning and distance education, chaired by Alejandro Tiana Ferrer, rector for UNED and host for the Forum.
After having listened to my co-presenters and in the plenary before our roundtable plus material from my own presentation, I suggested the following input to the conclusions from the Forum:
1. We, believers in Lifelong Learning should mobilise for inclusive integrated lifelong learning in a digitalised world
2. We should suggest the direction to be, within the framework of Education 2030 SDG 4, inclusion and education as a public good, social justice as a point of departure.
3. Collaboration among all stakeholder, and this is also the lifeblood for having success for Education 2030.
The Role of Teachers, Students and Institutions on OERicdeslides
On 19 September, ICDE was invited to take part in a panel plenary session, discussing the role of Teachers, Students and Institutions on OER. The scope for the discussion was to give recommendations for actions to mainstream OER in education systems worldwide from the perspective of the key stakeholder groups in education.
Challenges for OER in non-English-speaking countriesicdeslides
This presentation was for a panel discussion on “Challenges for OER in non-English-speaking countries”, organised by the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education. It organized a special session on OER in non-English-speaking countries as a satellite event of the 2nd OER World Congress.
Global open libraries - GOL A feasibility studyicdeslides
At the 2nd OER World Congress on 19 September, the idea of a network, Global Open Libraries, GOL, was presented, both at a well visited special event and at the plenary session later on the day and even on a satellite event discussing OER in non-English languages..
The presentation in the special session is this one.
You can comment on the report at icde@icde.org at the blog. Your comments can either be added directly to the blog post, or emailed to icde@icde.org by Wednesday 11 October 2017. Then the report will be finalised and the partners will decide if an initiative for GOL will be taken, and if so – the next steps.
The report asks, is this feasible:
“Based on existing quality OER repositories, educational needs, teachers and learners demands, a possible initiative intends to spark the uptake of OER and Open education in Higher Education and Upper Secondary Education, and provide the basis for a future networked global cooperation between quality OER repositories. The main outcome of a possible initiative will be a dynamic global network of OER repositories, well connected to key stakeholders and the user community.”
Innovation and transforming education for a sustainable worldicdeslides
Keynote at I Conferência Internacional de Inovação Tecnológica em Saúde,21 - 23 August 2017, Natal, Brazil. Video here:
https://www.facebook.com/LAIS.HUOL/videos/1418008181588370/
After setting the scene, including risks and sustainability discussed, Brazil is benchmarked by using official analyses and indicators. The need and field for innovation is discussed, in particular related to the learning process. Brazil, a land of hope and innovation.
Introduction
ICDE
The learners
Innovation, why ?
Risks, change, the globe and the SDGs
Brazil
Brazil, state of play, change and challenges
Brazil, the future
Innovate and transform
Online, open, flexible, and technology enhanced learning – transforming education
Innovation in the learning process
What next?
It is not simple to predict, and in particulate predict the future (and hype is always there). After having outlined state of play in ICT enabled pedagogy, using the US as an example, OER is presented as an opportunity for innovation in education - and a learning process facilitating innovation is presented. What is next? Exiting opportunities are knocking on our door: VR, AR, AI and more to come - take care, the learner is in the core.
To Be the Global Facilitator for Inclusive, Flexible, Quality Learning and Te...icdeslides
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.
Enhancement of Cultural and Linguistic Diversity through OERicdeslides
Global Expert Meeting Multilingualism in Cyberspace for Inclusive Sustainable Development Khanty-Mansiysk, Russian Federation, 6–9 June, 2017. This brief presentation provides a helicopter view on OER in the perspective of lesser used languages and multilingualism, when digitalisation is penetrating education – and suggest policies and actions for enhancement of cultural and linguistic diversity through OER.
Slide-stack: https://www.slideshare.net/icdeslides/digital-learning-in-a-borderless-world
This is the presentation text for the slide-stack.
Keynote 4 May 2017 at the International Congress on Education for the 21st Century (ICE2017), hosted by the Ministry of Education, Thailand and the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO).
Through this brief presentation, I will provide a helicopter view on the World and South East Asia, SEA, when digitalisation is penetrating education. And raise the question: Could ambitious benchmarks be established for the 11 SEA countries and the cooperation among them?
Keynote 4 May 2017 at the International Congress on Education for the 21st Century (ICE2017), hosted by the Ministry of Education, Thailand and the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO).
Open Education and Digitalized Society - Digital Learning in a Borderless World. Or:
A helicopter view on South East Asia when digitalisation is penetrating education. Could ambitious benchmarks comparing with Nordic countries be established for the 11 countries and the cooperation among them?
The era of digitalisation sets a new agenda for learning and teaching. While globalisation, technology and demography are major trends influencing all sectors of society, including higher education – ICDE observes more specific trends setting the agenda:
• Online and open goes mainstream
• OER and MOOCs fuel innovation in education
• Shift to personalised learning and assessment
• Convergence of education, cognitive psychology 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, we enter the new paradigm of lifelong learning.
• Quality first
Without direction digitalisation, education can go good or bad. The message is discussed: Put the learners first, lead digital transformation – and lead transformation of education. Go open, innovative and collaborative for inclusive and equitable quality education and lifelong learning for all.
Flexible learning: transforming education, labour market and societyicdeslides
International outlook on learning and digitalisationICDE These are the slides from the inspiration seminar ICDE conducted in Oslo, Norway, on April 26, 2017.
This presentation, shows how flexible learning has the capacity to transform education, labour market and society, based on the societal needs and the agreed sustainable development goals. Initiatives and networks facilitated by ICDE create a vital force in the internationalisation of the ICDE member institutions and often in collaboration with important partners as the international ICDE member associations and governmental organisations as UNESCO and Commonwealth of Learning.
More than ever a transparent, accountable and democratic global organisation as ICDE is needed for the case of the learners, the educational institutions and stakeholders working to make online, open and flexible education a part of the solution for future education.
The offerings for networking, events and initiatives for sharing good practice and new knowledge are many, made possible by the members of ICDE, like the conference organised by Symbiosis Centre for Distance Learning: “Reaching the Unreached”, the two events in France starting 22 – 23 May in Nancy, hosted by UNIT at the University Lorraine, in partnership with EDEN and EADTU, with the 2017 ICDE Leadership Summit, “Leadership: when transforming education through learning analytics and adaptive learning” and continuing the 24 May in Paris, hosted by UNESCO, “Visionary Leadership for Digital Transformation for the Sustainable World We Want”, in partnership with UNESCO and the project D-Transform, the great 27 ICDE World Conference in Toronto 16-19 October, hosted by Contact North: “Teaching in a Digital Age —Re-thinking Teaching & Learning” and the International Lifelong Learning conference in February 2019, Lillehammer, Norway organised and hosted by Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences - INN University.
The Global Doctoral Consortium has developed very well with 3 times more members than anticipated, now focusing on the first Doctoral Consortium as a track at the ICDE World Conference in Toronto. The GDC also collaborate with the Global OER Graduate Network http://go-gn.net
The Global Quality Network has been established, and is focusing on possible global quality guidelines for online, open and flexible education as the first task.
The new ICDE Chairs in OER , are already very active and visible, with for example the MOOCQ initiative and both presenting at the World Learning Summit in Kristiansand.
The study “Online, Open, Flexible and Technology-Enhanced (OOFAT) Models for Education” is developing very well, led by Dominic Orr, Forschungsinstitut für Bildungs- und Sozialökonomie (FIBS) together with the OpenEducation Research Hub (OER Hub).
More: https://www.icde.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=786:international-outlook-on-learning-and-digitalisation&catid=23:news&Itemid=169
Open Education – Impact on Higher Education and Societyicdeslides
This is a background presentation for the participation in a panel at Open Science, 21-22 March 2017, Berlin, Germany: Open Education – Impact on Higher Education and Society.
The panel aims to explore the impact of Open Education on the various “actors” involved: teachers, learners, employers and the society.
A review of the growth of the Israel Genealogy Research Association Database Collection for the last 12 months. Our collection is now passed the 3 million mark and still growing. See which archives have contributed the most. See the different types of records we have, and which years have had records added. You can also see what we have for the future.
A workshop hosted by the South African Journal of Science aimed at postgraduate students and early career researchers with little or no experience in writing and publishing journal articles.
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Exploiting Artificial Intelligence for Empowering Researchers and Faculty, In...Dr. Vinod Kumar Kanvaria
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The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
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It is possible to hide or invisible some fields in odoo. Commonly using “invisible” attribute in the field definition to invisible the fields. This slide will show how to make a field invisible in odoo 17.
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Gard Titlestad. Opportunities from a more open and online world.
1. Opportunities from a more open and
online world
Lecture at China Open University, Beijing
21 February 2012
Gard Titlestad
Secretary General
ICDE
2. Outline
• Introduction
• Global context
• Trends in education
• OER
• Trends in ODL/Online learning
• Convergence
• What is on the ICDE radar?
3. Need for education
- Education For All
• Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO
“Higher education: In less than 40 years,
enrolments have increased fivefold. Globally it
is estimated that demand will expand from
less than 100 million students in 2000 to over
250 million students in 2025.”
Distance and online education can help
4. ”People with
university degrees
have suffered far
fewer job losses
during the global
economic crisis
than those who left
school without
qualifications.”
”Good education and skills are crucial to improving a person’s
economic and social prospects.” OECD 2011
5. Example – global
challenges
Sustainable development and
climate change
Clean Water
Population and resources
Energy
Green growth
Organized crime
Democratization
Global ethics
Rich – poor gap
Health
Peace and conflict
Status of women
IT – global convergence
6. Universities
Universities are increasingly faced with societal
challenges of national, regional and global
nature: Grand challenges
• Universities deliver through their three
funcitons:
– Education
– Research
– Innovation
7. The Knowledge Triangle
need to be strengthened to:
meet with global challenges
promote economic growth, green growht
deliver high quality knowledge supply
Universities
Universities in the center of the knowledge triangel
8. Mobilising the workforce:
Mobication
or Flexication
Education
Welfare Work
An opportunity for flexible and online learning!
9. High Quality education
OECD:International Student Assessment
The Programme for
PISA
(PISA ) is an internationally standardised assessment
15-year-olds in schools.
PISA assesses how far students near the end of compulsory
education have acquired some of the knowledge and skills
that are essential for full participation in society.
In all cycles, the domains of reading, mathematical and
scientific literacy are covered not merely in terms of
mastery of the school curriculum, but in terms of
important knowledge and skills needed in adult life.
10. PISA and China
What do we know?
http://www.oecd.org/document/7/0,3746,en_2649_35845621_49428807_1_1_1_1,00.htm
13. School failure
• Reducing school failure pays off for both
society and individuals. More education
attainment provides better labour market
prospects and contributes to economic
growth and social progress. The highest
performing education systems across OECD
countries are those that combine high quality
and equity.
Overcoming School Failure: Policies that Work
February 2012
14. One of five don´t complete
”Drop outs”
Or ”Push outs” (Hal Plotkin)
Distance and online education can help
15. ”Never Waste a Crisis”
The financial constraints
facing the European
countries should also be
seen as a major
opportunity for ODL.
Morten Flate Paulsen,
President, European Distance
and e-Learning Network.
16. The traditional educational
system is challenged
”many speakers referred worryingly to the
growth of online and for-profit providers—
suggests a growing concern at even the
most elite institutions that the classroom
experience is not all it could be”
Harvard Conference Seeks to Jolt University Teaching, February 2012
17. Traditional lecture:
10% retention after 15 minutes?
Comparison of Learning Results from Traditionally Taught
Courses and Courses Using Research-Based Pedagogy
A Scientific Approach To Science Education - Technology And Institutional Change, By Carl Wieman
18. OER
In its simplest form, the concept of Open
Educational Resources (OER) describes any
educational resources (including curriculum
maps, course materials, textbooks, streaming
videos, multimedia applications, podcasts, and
any other materials that have been designed for
use in teaching and learning) that are openly
available for use by educators and students,
without an accompanying need to pay royalties
or licence fees.
www.ocwconsortium.org/
19. Educational potential
• Increased availability of high quality, relevant learning materials can
contribute to more productive students and educators.
• The principle of allowing adaptation of materials provides one mechanism
amongst many for constructing roles for students as active participants in
educational processes, who learn best by doing and creating, not by
passively reading and absorbing.
• OER has potential to build capacity by providing institutions and
educators access, at low or no cost, to the means of production to develop
their competence in producing educational materials and carrying out the
necessary instructional design to integrate such materials into high quality
programmes of learning.
“A Basic Guide to Open Educational Resources”, (Butcher, Kanwar and Uvalic´-Trumbic´)
20. OER can fuel the
Knowledge Triangle
High quality education Open Access
Research based education Research based OER
Resource based education Research based teaching
OER
Innovation in education
Innovate the learning system and institutions
Knowledge supply for innovation
21. 2012 World OER Congress
20 – 22 June, Paris, France
Should all education resources funded
with public money be OERs?
23. The OEP Guideline
• Step 1: Positioning your Organization in the
OEP Map
• Step 2: Creating a Vision of Openness and a
Strategy for OEP in an Organization
• Step 3: Implementing and Promoting OEP
24. Websites
• A Basic Guide to Open Educational
Resources (OER)
• http://www.col.org/oerBasicGuide
• Guidelines for Open Educational Resources
(OER) in Higher Education
• http://www.col.org/oerGuidelines
• http://www.oer-quality.org/
25. Technology as
facilitator
The rapid development of
information and
communication technology
(ICT) offers tremendous
educational opportunities to
provide new innovative,
accessible and more affordable
ways of learning.
Mansoor Al Awar,
Chairman, Middle East e-
Learning Association.
26.
27.
28. WORLD INTERNET USAGE AND
POPULATION STATISTICS
December 31, 2011
Internet World Stats
29. BEIJING, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- China had
513 million Internet users by the end
of 2011, showing that 38.3 percent of
Chinese people used the Internet, the
country's network information center
said Monday
Since 2006, the proportion of Internet
users to the country's total population
rose by an average of around 6
percentage points annually..
30. "Going the Distance:
Online Education in the United
States, 2011"
• Almost one-third of
enrolments in HE in the
autumn of 2010 in the
USA were online
enrolments, with more
than 30% of the
students taking at least
one course online.
Allen, E. I., Seaman, J. - Sloan Consortium, 2011
31. ”Higher education, is vulnerable
to disruption.”
Clayton M. Christensen, professor of
business administration at the
Harvard Business School.
33. Will elite institutions have to
change or lose in competition
with Online start-ups?
Case: Stanford Professor Gives Up Teaching Position, Hopes to
Reach 500,000 Students at Online Start-Up
”We believe university-level education can be both high quality
and low cost. Using the economics of the Internet, we've
connected some of the greatest teachers to hundreds of
thousands of students all over the world.”
http://www.udacity.com/
Professor David Evans and
Professor Sebastian Thrun
34. Certificates for free online courses –
what impact could that have for HEI?
Case: MIT granting certificates for free online courses.
• Participants will watch five- to 10-minute
video tutorials, read an e-textbook, and
complete homework assignments, virtual
laboratories and two exams. At the end of the
course, they will receive a cumulative grade
and a certificate from MITx.
• http://mitx.mit.edu/
MITx MIT’s new online learning initiative
35. Convergence
Convergence (logic), the notion that a sequence of transformations come to the
same conclusion, no matter what order they are performed in. (Wikipedia)
Conventional, face-to-face universities are increasingly
moving into the delivery of online learning programs.
Many conventional universities have been unable to
adopt or adapt the strategies developed by distance
teaching organizations fast enough to ensure increased
access, quality, and sustainability through the use of
teaching technology.
International Council for Open and Distance Education, Global
Trends in Higher Education, Adult and Distance Learning (2009).
36. Convergence
“The University of
California has launched an
online programme as a
part of its goal to become
the first top-rated
American institution to
award an online
bachelor’s degree.” 2011
37. Convergence
“The Task Force has concluded that online
learning – however blended with on- or off-
campus interactions, whether delivered in the
UK or overseas – provides real opportunity
for UK institutions to develop responsive,
engaging and interactive provision which, if
offered at scale, can deliver quality and cost-
effectiveness and meet student demands for
flexible learning.”
The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) Collaborate to
compete, Seizing the opportunity of online learning for UK higher education, 2011
38. Convergence
• Distance Learning in British Universities – is it
possible?
– Conventional campus-based universities struggle
to build and/ or expand sustainable distance
learning provision.
– The problem rests in an institutional lack of
understanding about distance learning pedagogy
and/ or a lack of capability to make the necessary
institutional changes required to ensure that
distance learning works
Helen Lentell, University of Leicester, 2012
39. Rapid growth in online
education leads to concern
• «To help Education Why GAO Did This Study
strengthen its oversight of
distance education, the
”Distance education—that is, offering
Secretary of Education courses by the Internet, video, or other
should direct FSA to forms outside the classroom— has been
develop a plan on how best a growing force in postsecondary
to use the new IPEDS education and there are questions about
distance education data and quality and adequate oversight”
provide input to NCES on
future IPEDS survey work Research objectives:
with regard to distance
(3) how the quality of distance education
education»
is being assessed,
and (4) how Education monitors distance
• HIGHER EDUCATION: Use of New Data Could Help education in its stewardship of federal
Improve Oversight of Distance Education. Report to
Congressional Requesters. 17 November 2011. GAO-12- student aid funds.
39 United States Government Accountability Office
40. The Future
• College presidents predict substantial growth in
online learning: 15% say most of their current
undergraduate students have taken a class online,
and 50% predict that 10 years from now most of
their students will take classes online.
• Nearly two-thirds of college presidents (62%)
anticipate that 10 years from now, more than half of
the textbooks used by their undergraduate students
will be entirely digital.
• The Digital Revolution and Higher Education. 2011. By Kim Parker, Amanda Lenhart and
Kathleen Moore
41. Teachers
and teachers education
• Teachers – a key target group for attention
• The need for teachers
• The teaching challenge in a more open and online
world
• Teachers and studentoriented teaching
• The need for continued education in new
methodologies
• Teachers and research based education
• Policies and strategies to support teachers meeting
tomorrows opportunities and challenges
• Teachers as the benchmark for quality education
42. What is on the radar
for ICDE?
Studying the regulatory frameworks of open & distance education
Promoting OER in partnership with UNESCO
Developing quality standards for ODL
Digital divide
Revising & improving quality review service for member institutions
Promoting ODL - a global day of ODL in 2013?
Enhancing the role of ODL in teacher education and training
Monitoring trends in ODL and OER - statistics on ODL.
Strengthening research on ODL – have an overview.
ICDE will develop a new strategy for 2013 – 2016 and determine key priorities and
activities – including a possibility to convene a policy event, a meeting place for
ministers and policy makers, to discuss current trends in ODL, opportunities and
challenges in a more open and online world and the need for policies, strategies
and leadership.
Next milestone: The Standing Conference Of Presidents (SCOP) in Dubai, 12 – 15 November
2012, hosted by HBMeU
43. ICDE 25 World Conference
Tianjin, China
16th to 18th October 2013
Host: Tianjin Open University