The annual ICDE Standing Conference of Presidents (SCOP) meeting included the ICDE Policy Forum, co-organized with UNESCO. On the theme of "Directions and challenges for government and institutions when post-secondary education moves into the MOOC territory: public policies and institutional strategies in the digital learning age", the Policy Forum included organizations and key stakeholders including UNESCO, OECD, the European Commission, Open Courseware Consortium and International Association of Universities.

1. ICDE Standing Conference of
Presidents
Policy Forum
Lisboa 29 November 2013
Gard Titlestad
Secretary General
International Council For Open and Distance
Education, ICDE

2. The Policy Forum
• To shred light on the current situation and its
development, identify which issues that need
to be solved, which issues need to be
examined further. To come up with possible
recommendations for solving or approaching
the issues – what to do. Furthermore, the
“owners” of the issues and actions need to be
identified and addressed – and what could we
do together.

4. 400
Mill. students
2007 - 2030
EU/OECD projections
the need for HE
by 2030: 400 mill.
320
2030
2044

5. 1970
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2030
Ivory tower
Elite
Leaders public and private sector
Local
Contribute to the nation
Physical
Classroom approach
Chained, place, time, people, pace
One institutional army
Stability
Excellence
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Diverse Higher Ed System
Mass (some elite)
Knowledge infrastructure
Global
Meet global challenges
Virtual
Personalisation
Open
Team and collaboration
Change
And much more - unimagable
Excellence

6. Five mega-trends will transform
the higher education sector

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

8. OER and Open and
Distance Learning can
increase the impact of
investments in knowledge
High quality education
Research based education
Resource based education
Open education
Open Access – open science
Research based OER
Research based teaching
OER &
ODL
Innovation in education – open innovation
Innovate the learning system – flip the classroom
Knowledge supply for innovation

9. 2012 (Babson survey)

10. 2013 (ECAR)

11. Wie bieden ze aan?
Coursera ”Learning Hubs”

12. Marci Powell │ Polycom, Global Director for Education
USDLA Chair Emerita and Past President
MOOC-Mania!
You Are
Here
Gartner Group’s Hype Cycle methodology

13. MOOC or MOC
Are MOOCs Really Open? MOOC or MOC?
No, all rights reserved.
Partial, CC BY-NC on some
No, non-OER license.
Yes, CC BY or CC BY-SA
No, all rights reserved.
Note: some institutions using CC anyway.
Most MOOCs are open only in the sense of free enrollment.
Paul Stacey, Associate Director of Global Learning, Creative Commons, Oktober 2013

14. IT application strategy
The Chinese government has put forward the
following strategies
Industrial moderniza on
Industrializa on
IT applica on
Agricultural moderniza on
IT applica on(digi za on)
Na onal defense moderniza on
Urbaniza on
na onal development
Sci-tech moderniza on
Agricultural moderniza on
strategy
original“four moderniza ons”
new“four moderniza ons”
Ref. Yang Zhijian, president Open
University of China, ICDE world
Conference, Tianjin, Kina 2013
(digi za on) is a

15. “Cloud-based” technology support model
（ Open, shared, quality and massive education resources
and e-learning software （
Platform Services
（ Portal, CAS, Teaching, Managing, Support service, Research, etc.（
Infrastructure Services
（ IDC, Computing and storage pools, high-speed network （
VPN
Internet
ISMS (Information security
management system)
IOMS (IT Operations
Management system)
Cloud
Software & Education resource Services
Mobile Internet
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Networks
Satellite Network
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Terminals
OUC Pad Cloud Desktop Cloud TV
Cloud Phone Cloud Classroom

16. Think tank 20 October 2013, Open
University of China, Beijing, China
Mind to MOOCs
Overview, reflections and brainstorming in whitening water
To be reported to the ICDE Standing Conference of Presidents meeting and
Policy Forum

17. ICDE: “Mind to MOOCs”– draft issues and
recommendations
Innovation. Recommendations regarding innovation and research related aspects.
· Improve and innovate on pedagogical aspects: methodologies, content formats, and
assessment.
· Promote research about MOOCs. Innovation and new practices such as MOOCs can be
improved with research. Suggested topics are learning analytics, sustainability issues,
support services, assessment and credentialing/accreditation improvements, quality
framework.
· Re-locate innovation in the context of community and shared ownership and the creation
of a participative and democratic learning environment, where values have equal
importance with rates of profitable extraction.
· Promote the generation of strategies to empower local human resources to develop
innovations and quality standards at local levels.
· Analyse funding and sustainability issues, considering different financing options and
funding models.
· Analyse recognition of credit possibilities. It requires previous work on guaranteeing
authenticity (learner's identity) during the learning and assessment processes. Consider the
inclusion of MOOCs into existing practices for PLAR (Prior Learning Assessment and
Recognition).
· Analyse the impact of MOOCs completion badges or certificates of employment, on the
business of institution/corporate partnerships and on MOOC financing.
Quality: Recommendations about improving MOOCs considering pedagogical and managerial
related aspects.
· Develop and integrate ICT into the learning process according to pedagogical
recommendations. Implement learning analytics as a tool for improving courses. Connect
the learning process and research for new knowledge and improvements.
· Keep moving towards quality. Beyond quantity of MOOCs and users, the focus on quality is
essential for sustainability.
· Work on standards related to MOOCs: quality standards, technical standards and licensing
standards.
· Be aware of content and interoperability, the option and possibility for communication
between platforms and moving content across platforms.
Equity. Recommendations about MOOCs and their relationship to inclusion, social justice and
social mission of open education.
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Consider this disruptive initiative as an opportunity to rethink our role as universities. Both
open and conventional higher education institutions should reflect on the influence of
MOOCs in the re-appraisal of their roles.
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Place equity as a foundation for renewed emphasis on rights and pro-active access to the
potential goods (intellectual, economic and cultural) that education and MOOCs can

18. MOOC in an international perspective:
New global agenda for innovation
in higher education
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1) Goverment should provide a holistic, favorable framework for open and online
learning and in line with the values of UNESCO. Intesive should be established for wanted
direction. Dialogue with stakeholders, in particular HEI. Specific goals to be set. OER in
line with the UNESCO declaration a part of the framework.
2) Support and facilitation of Leadership for change to a more open and online
education. Competencies to be build.
3) Incentives and support for faculty and teachers change processes, competencies and
working environment to acheive a more open and online education.
4) Framework and methodologies that put the learner in the centre.
5) Cooperation across institutions, and countries on content and platforms for a more
open and online education, hereunder MOOC.
6) Interoperability between solutions.
7) Common global outlook, statistics and understanding of fundamental concepts
8) Concrete goals and plans for research and innovation within the field, well anchored
at the institutions concerned..

19. Buzz groups
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Buzz Groups:
Definition of buzzing:
excitement if a group of people or a place is buzzing, there is a lot of activity or
excitement
thoughts if your head or mind is buzzing with thoughts, ideas etc, you cannot stop
thinking about them
Definition of a buzz group:
Buzz groups are simply small groups of two or three persons formed to discuss a
topic for a short period. A buzz group involves every member of a larger group,
directly in a discussion process.
Each group appoints a spokesperson to report the results of the discussion to the
larger group. Buzz groups are a form of brainstorming.
Uses:
To help expand thoughts and opinions about a controversial topic; or to gather
potential solutions to a problem.

20. Step 1
• 7 min: Open Courseware Consortium: Larry
Cooperman, President
• 7 min: Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development – OECD: Patricia
Mangeol, Policy Analyst
• 7 min: International Association of
Universities: Isabelle Turmaine, Director
• Buzz groups for 5 minutes: Issues and
recommendations for institutions.

21. Step 2
• 5 min: The European Commission: Ricardo
Ferreira, Policy Officer
• 5 min: African Council for Distance Education –
(ACDE): Tolly Mbwette, President of Executive
Board
• 5 min: European Association of Distance Teaching
Universities (EADTU): Will Swan, President
• 5 min: SLOAN Consortium: Meg Benke, President
• Buzz groups for 5 minutes: Issues and
recommendations for Governments

22. Step 3
• 5 min: European Distance and E-Learning Network
(EDEN): António Teixeira, President
• 5 min: Middle East e-Learning Association (MEeA):
Mansoor Al Awar, Chairman
• 5 min: Brazilian Association for Distance Education
(ABED): Fred Litto, President
• 5 min: European Foundation for Quality in e-Learning
(EFQUEL): Ingeborg Bø, member of Board of Directors
• Buzz groups for 5 minutes: Issues and
recommendations for research and infrastructure

23. Step 4
• 5 min: United States Distance Learning
Association (USDLA): Don Olcott, member of
Board of Directors
• 5 min: Asian Association of Open Universities
(AAOU): Li Kam Cheong, Secretary General 2014
• UNESCO
• ICDE
• Buzz groups for 5 minutes: Issues and
recommendations for a possible joint agenda

24. Step 5
• Summary of a possible joint agenda for
change.

25. • The Policy Forum will be dedicated to the
theme
• "Directions and challenges for government
and institutions when post-secondary
education moves into the MOOC territory:
public policies and institutional strategies in
the digital learning age".

26. Thank you!
titlestad@icde.org
www.icde.org