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.

1. Higher education globalization:
issues and opportunities
14 December 2017, Paris, France
Gard Titlestad, Secretary General
International Council for Open and Distance Education
Member of the Governing Board
Ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur,
de la Recherche et de l'Innovation.

2. Open, Transparent,
Accountable and focus
on Good Governance
Support
From
Norway
29 years
UNESCO
Partner
>50 years
SINCE 1938
To be the global facilitator for inclusive, flexible, quality learning and teaching in the digital age.
ICDE

3. The Future is Now

4. ec.europa.eu/research/pdf/publications/knowledge_future_2050.pdf
December 2015

5. Open
• Principle 1: An open
knowledge system in Europe
Inno
• Principle 2: Flexibility and
experimentation in innovation
Coop
• Principle 3: European-level
cooperation
ec.europa.eu/research/pdf/publications/knowledge_future_2050.pdf

6. The Knowledge
Triangle and Open
Open
Policy
Open Science –
Open Access
Open innovation
Open education -
OER

7. ICDE ad hoc
observations,
trends and
analysis
+ +
Simplified version
An Education 2030 foresight

8. 2015 2030+2030
Globalisation
Demography
Technology
Megatrends
SDG4 Education 2030
Incheon-declaration
Qingdao-declaration
Framework for Action
Option A:
The world´s
Success
Option B:
The world
misses out

9. • Option A: The world´s
Success
• Competitive regions –clusters of HEI flourishing.
• Education is ‘in’. New efficiencies: course modules
shared within university clusters, online and
artificial intelligence-based teaching, specialisation
within institutions public and private.
• Educational games, at which regional designers
excel, are a vast market segment.
• In business, open innovation is now the dominant
mode. The Globe´s mega-cities, are a focus for
innovation; ‘Paris original’ – or Qingdao or Nairobi
are global brands.
• Automation and data-intensive science have
changed the nature of doing research. We have
moved from open science to radical open access:
all kinds of new actors are rushing into the
research game, especially in astronomy, ecology,
climate and other fields that attract strong public
interest. Regions are competing in taking the lead
in producing the world’s ideas, creativity is
flourishing.
• So are also industries anchored in regions, often
building on healthy SMEs. The region´s universities
are strong, its citizens fulfilled – and its core
values, such as equality, openness, social inclusion
and environmental responsibility, are upheld.
• Option B: The world
misses out
• The Globe is a victim of megatrends beyond its
control. Automation and globalisation have
triggered mass unemployment, social exclusion,
discontent.
• What’s left for the humans to do? Inequality is
higher than ever; new creative jobs are
constantly evolving from new technologies, but
they are only for the skilled few.
• Politically, regions have fragmented into a
coalition of rich and poor sub-regions with
minimal coordination. Multinational companies,
and wealthy individuals, use global markets and
digital technologies to avoid tax.
• A few great universities dominate; many weaker,
regional universities have closed or merged.
Automation has also swept across the
educational system, with online certifications
normal and augmented cognition technologies
starting to appear – and finding favour with big
companies wanting fast, cheap graduates.
• Top cited scientists are in hot demand – often
hired by multinationals in a kind of perpetual
‘consultancy without borders. Mobility is
diminished. Innovation is without borders;
supply chains form and dissemble rapidly –
making long-term regional development more
difficult than ever.
• Regions look inward, fear the future, and see
their values gradually discredited.
• Flourishing regions – a much
more balanced world
• Education core value from
cradle to grave
• Open innovation – Smart cities
leading developments
• Automation for human
expansion and a sustainable
world
• Regional creative knowledge
clusters
• Equality, openness, social
inclusion and environmental
responsibility
• The Globe victim for
megatrends beyond human
control. Automation
triggered massive
discontent.
• Inequality, creative jobs for
the few
• Coalitions of rich and poor.
Low regional coordination
• A few universities dominate.
Online has become the way
to satisfy big companies
need for cheap graduates
• Innovation without borders –
regional growth disintegrate
• Regions fear the future

10. Option A:
The world´s
Success
2015 2030+2030
Globalisation
Demography
Technology
Education
2030
Megatrends
Option B:
The world
misses out
SDG4 Education 2030
Incheon-declaration
Qingdao-declaration
Framework for Action
Openess
Collaboration
Flexibility and innovation
Megapolicies

11. ”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
Ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur,
de la Recherche et de l'Innovation.