1. The document discusses quality challenges in higher education in the context of increasing digitalization, including innovation and employability, access and inclusion, individualization and diversity, and flexibilization. 2. It presents a thought experiment about how a student's education pathway might change from 2016 to 2033 with increasing permeability between educational institutions and recognition of online and informal learning. 3. The document outlines an agenda for higher education that addresses these quality challenges, with a focus on developing student competencies, adapting to changing models of educational provision and recognition of learning.

1. Prof. Dr. Ulf-Daniel Ehlers
Baden-Wurttemberg Cooperative State University
European Association for Institutes of Higher Education
Global Quality Challenges
for Quality in Open Online
Learning
EDEN Network
of Academic Professionals
Webinar

3. Pixabay.com

4. Learning
Society
Digitali-
sation
Disassociation
Selforganisation
Lifelong
Learning
Permeability
Sequentiality
Individualisation/
Diversity
Higher-
Edu-
cation

5. Will the digital turn be a technical or an
eductaional revolution?

6. How to deal with openess?

7. How to create a suitable blend of
institutional forms?

8. How to achieve permeability?

9. A Thought Experiment...
A school beginner in September 2016...
• ... finishes 2020 primary school
• ... gradutaes from high school in 2028
• ... receives his bachelor degree in 2031
• ... and his Master in 2033
• ...starts to work...
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10. An Agenda of
Quality Challenges in Higher Education
1. Innovation & Employability
(The Competence Quest)
2. Access & Inclusion
3. Individualisation & Diversity
4. Flexibilisation
5. Digitalisation

11. Higher Education
Competence describe the ability to act self-organised, successfully in
an unknown, complex future.
Knowing-in-Action
Reflection-in-Action
Reflection on Reflection-in-Action
Higher Education as Reflection-Laboratory
(Schön 1983, 1986)
Implicit Action-Knowledge
Ad-Hoc Strategies
Development of ind. Action Theories
Professionality
Competence Responsibility
Action Adequacy
Abilities Will
Knowledge Apply
Information Connect (Wildt 2006)
(Erpenbeck 2005)

12. Teaching Strategies
Transfer Tutor/in Coach
Facts
(„know-that“)
Procedures
(„know-how“)
Social Practices
(„knowing-in-action“)
Transmission Dialogue Interaction
Knowledge, Remenbering Doing, Problemsolving Reflective Action, innovation
Teaching I Teaching II Teaching III
Steering Enabling
(Baumgartner 2004)
(Reinmann 2005)

13. An Agenda of
Quality Challenges in Higher Education
1. Innovation & Employability
(The Competence Quest)
2. Access & Inclusion
3. Individualisation & Diversity
4. Flexibilisation
5. Digitalisation

14. Anno 1088
http://isdsbologna2013.org/blog/location/bologna/#!prettyPhoto-205/0/
Exclusively
for the chosen few...

15. Anno 1965
http://www.rd.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/imperia/md/images/rd/plasma/news/luftbild_rub_s__dwest.jpg
Industrialisation,
Massification,
Standardisation

16. Anno 2004
http://web.mit.edu/jsaa/www/photos/stata.jpg
Postmodern,
Individualised,
Disaggregated

17. The career of an idea in higher
Education ...
Where does that leave us?
• The traditional model: Exclusively for few
chosen.
• The modern (massification) model: Standard
model for masses.
• The post-modern model: Individualised and
diversified HE (Rip and Mix Approach/
Patchwork)

18. An Agenda of
Quality Challenges in Higher Education
1. Innovation & Employability
(The Competence Quest)
2. Access & Inclusion
3. Individualisation & Diversity
4. Flexibilisation
5. Digitalisation

19. 1. Individualized Learning:
Drivers and Larger Context
Modernization of the World of Work
Flexibilisation of the World of Education
Lifelong Learning

20. 2. Permeability:
Higher Education Blend
Post-Secondary Education STRUCTURE
• Vocational Education and Training
• Higher Education
• Lifelong Learning
• Formal
• Informal

21. 3. Extended Recognition Practice
Recognition of Programs of HEIs
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22. Provision
Learning
Resources
Assessment
Certification
of LO
«Traditional» Educational Provision

23. Provision
Learning
Resources
Assessment
Certification
of LO
Unbundled Educational Provision
«Unbundled»
edX + PearsonUnis Unis

24. 28
Recognition of Open Learning?

25. Brandnew Initiatives...
Microdegrees
Nanodegrees
(MicroHE & OEPass)

26. An Agenda of
Quality Challenges in Higher Education
1. Innovation & Employability
(The Competence Quest)
2. Access & Inclusion
3. Individualisation & Diversity
4. Flexibilisation
5. Digitalisation

27. (Digital) Import of Curriculum
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28. Flexible Pathways/ Curricula
32

29. An Agenda of
Quality Challenges in Higher Education
1. Innovation & Employability
(The Competence Quest)
2. Access & Inclusion
3. Individualisation & Diversity
4. Flexibilisation
5. Digitalisation

30. Digital
What is a convincing digital agenda for eductaional institutions?
http://images.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http://www.dhbw-
vs.de/fileadmin/content/101_HEADER_BILDER/02_Header_Bilder_Unterseiten/

31. Everywhere
What do we do in the classroom?
http://images.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http://www.dhbw-
vs.de/fileadmin/content/101_HEADER_BILDER/02_Header_Bilder_Unterseiten/

32. Learning Community

33. Learner generated

34. Open

35. The Digital Myth
With E-Learning and
availability of
(OE)resources
learning will improve!

36. Open Education Practice

37. Learning
Society
Digitali-
sation
Disassociation
Selforganisation
Lifelong
Learning
Permeability
Sequentiality
Individualisation/
Diversity
Higher-
Edu-
cation

38. Videos, Papers, Writing:
www.ulf-ehlers.net

39. ehlers@dhbw-karlsruhe.de
Baden-Wurttemberg Cooperative State University
European Association for Institutes of higher
Education
www.ulf-ehlers.net
Thank you for your attention!