Keynote The Arkansas Distance Learning Association (ARDLA), 10 October 2012.
Introduction on ICDE an main paradox regarding ODL
Higher education – a goldmine
Global context, need for HE, need for jobs
Opportunities, trends and disruptive initiatives - Open and online
Paradoxes
The users demand
System failure - global failure
A wake up call for governments - a shake up of universities
Conclusion
Key findings from the 2012 edition of Education at a Glance - United KingdomEduSkills OECD
Educational opportunities for people from poorly educated families are limited in most countries, but the UK does better than other countries in moving people up the social ladder.
Key findings from the 2012 edition of Education at a Glance - United StatesEduSkills OECD
The U.S. ranks 14th in the world in the percentage of 25-34 year-olds with higher education (42%)
Tertiary completion pays high dividends. Over the course of his working life, a tertiary-educated man in the U.S. can expect to earn almost USD 675 000 more than a man with no more than an upper secondary or postsecondary non-tertiary education – far more than in any other country.
The talent pool is growing…
And its distribution across countries is changing
A significant proportion of student have a higher level of education than their parents
Where do individuals from low educational backgrounds succeed?
The state of education around the world: Findings from Education at a Glance ...EduSkills OECD
On 16 September, the OECD released its 2021 edition of Education at a Glance, the authoritative source for information on the state of education around the world.
It provides data on the structure, finances and performance of education systems across OECD countries and partner economies, looking at everything from the organisation of schools and schooling to the financial resources invested in education institutions.
The 2021 edition of Education at a Glance has a focus on equity in education, offering an assessment of where OECD and partner countries stand in providing equal access to quality education at all levels.
This year’s edition is also accompanied by a spotlight on the impact of COVID-19 in education.
In this presentation, OECD Director for Education and Skills Andreas Schleicher presents the key findings.
Read the report and watch the presentation -- https://oe.cd/EAG
Raising the Effectiveness of Official Development Assistance in Education EduSkills OECD
Presentation by Barbara Ischinger, Director for Education, OECD, at the International Forum on Education ODA jointly organised by the Korean Ministry of Education, KEDI (Korean Education Development Institute), OECD, UNESCO and World Bank, 28 November, Busan, Korea.
Education at a Glance 2014 - United KingdomEduSkills OECD
No country has made a greater effort than the UK to invest more current wealth (GDP) into more future wealth (education) but there is still lots of scope to improve educational outcomes
Key findings from the 2012 edition of Education at a Glance - United KingdomEduSkills OECD
Educational opportunities for people from poorly educated families are limited in most countries, but the UK does better than other countries in moving people up the social ladder.
Key findings from the 2012 edition of Education at a Glance - United StatesEduSkills OECD
The U.S. ranks 14th in the world in the percentage of 25-34 year-olds with higher education (42%)
Tertiary completion pays high dividends. Over the course of his working life, a tertiary-educated man in the U.S. can expect to earn almost USD 675 000 more than a man with no more than an upper secondary or postsecondary non-tertiary education – far more than in any other country.
The talent pool is growing…
And its distribution across countries is changing
A significant proportion of student have a higher level of education than their parents
Where do individuals from low educational backgrounds succeed?
The state of education around the world: Findings from Education at a Glance ...EduSkills OECD
On 16 September, the OECD released its 2021 edition of Education at a Glance, the authoritative source for information on the state of education around the world.
It provides data on the structure, finances and performance of education systems across OECD countries and partner economies, looking at everything from the organisation of schools and schooling to the financial resources invested in education institutions.
The 2021 edition of Education at a Glance has a focus on equity in education, offering an assessment of where OECD and partner countries stand in providing equal access to quality education at all levels.
This year’s edition is also accompanied by a spotlight on the impact of COVID-19 in education.
In this presentation, OECD Director for Education and Skills Andreas Schleicher presents the key findings.
Read the report and watch the presentation -- https://oe.cd/EAG
Raising the Effectiveness of Official Development Assistance in Education EduSkills OECD
Presentation by Barbara Ischinger, Director for Education, OECD, at the International Forum on Education ODA jointly organised by the Korean Ministry of Education, KEDI (Korean Education Development Institute), OECD, UNESCO and World Bank, 28 November, Busan, Korea.
Education at a Glance 2014 - United KingdomEduSkills OECD
No country has made a greater effort than the UK to invest more current wealth (GDP) into more future wealth (education) but there is still lots of scope to improve educational outcomes
Fin de siecle: reengineering New Zealand higher education for life after the ...University of Limerick
New Zealand has a large higher education sector, with one of the highest rates of tertiary participation in the OECD. Under the 1989 Education Act, access to university is an entitlement for all students who successfully graduate from high school and, more uniquely, for all permanent residents, regardless of previous educational attainment, once they reach the age of 20 years. The system of budgetary support for higher education is also unusual, insofar as almost half the total funding goes directly to students (in the form of allowances and interest-free loans) rather than as grants to the providers. Sustained high participation rates have put this funding mechanism under strain over the last decade.
The global financial crisis has led to a sharp rise in projected public debt levels. After a major fiscal stimulus package in 2009, the economy is recovering and the government is under intense pressure to cut public spending. New Zealand has very high external debt levels, requiring constant refinancing, and the government needs to restore fiscal stability to retain the country’s AAA credit rating. New government policies are aimed at capping total enrolments in higher education and withdrawing access to loans for under-performing students. Grants to universities have been frozen for 2011 and some related funding lines cancelled. All eight New Zealand universities are currently facing a significant loss of government funding from 2011 and most are in the process of cutting costs and making redundancies.
In the years ahead, the demands on the public purse from an ageing population will intensify, forcing the government to make ongoing real terms cuts to spending on higher education in order to control government debt. These cuts will make the present funding model for New Zealand higher education unsustainable. Alumni donations in New Zealand are relatively uncommon as higher education is widely considered a public service and universities have been relatively unsuccessful in very recent years at growing international enrolments as a way of diversifying their revenue base. The only other source of significant revenue is for universities to be allowed to raise domestic tuition fees over time to full cost-recovery rates and for the government to target declining tuition subsidies and student allowances and loans more precisely on degrees with a strong ‘public good’ dimension (like teacher training) and low-income students.
These changes would signal an end to affordable and easily accessible higher education for New Zealand students. It is hard to avoid the conclusion that the global financial crisis has exposed flaws in the underlying ‘business model’ of New Zealand higher education and, by so doing, is likely to hasten the transformation of the system to a more expensive and selective system.
Higher Education Summit, Auckland, March 2010
Education Policy Outlook - Making Reforms HappenEduSkills OECD
Education Policy Outlook in Brief Looks at education reforms across 34 OECD countries that can touch the lives of more than 150 million students. There are common trends from the more than 450 reforms adopted across countries. With the crisis they are becoming more strategic. Education policy is not only about design. implementation and follow up are vital for success of reforms. The Outlook aims to support policy makers and others to make reform happen that translates into better education in our schools and classrooms
Education at a Glance OECD Indicators 2019EduSkills OECD
Education at a Glance is the authoritative source for information on the state of education around the world. It provides data on the structure, finances and performance of education systems across OECD countries and a number of partner economies. More than 100 charts and tables in this publication – as well as links to much more available on the educational database – provides key information on the output of educational institutions; the impact of learning across countries; access, participation and progression in education; the financial resources invested in education; and teachers, the learning environment and the organisation of schools.The 2019 edition includes a focus on tertiary education with new indicators on tertiary completion rates, doctoral graduates and their labour market outcomes, and on tertiary admission systems, as well as a dedicated chapter on the Sustainable Development Goal 4.
Working together to help education reforms work out EduSkills OECD
Andreas Schleicher
Special Advisor on Education Policy to the Secretary General - OECD
Director for Education and Skills
Taking the perspective of institutions and the system, Education Policy Outlook 2019: Working Together to Help Students Achieve their Potential, analyses the evolution of key education priorities and key education policies in 43 education systems. It compares more recent developments in education policy ecosystems (mainly between 2015 and 2019) with various education policies adopted between 2008 and 2014. This report includes around 460 education policy developments (with evidence of progress or impact for over 200 of them) spanning from early childhood education and care to higher education and lifelong learning on topics related to school improvement, evaluation and assessment, governance and funding. It looks into “what is being done”, as well as “why and how it works” to help education systems gain better understanding of how policies can have greater opportunities of success in their specific contexts.
This presentation by Andreas Schleicher, presented on 3 April 2017, takes a closer look at the PISA 2015 results for Sweden and what can be done to improve equity in its education system.
Strong performers and successful reformers in PISA 2012 lessons for SwedenEduSkills OECD
What do 15-year-old Swedes know……and what can they do with what they know? Of the 65 countries in PISA 40 improved at least in one of the three subjects – Sweden saw a decline
Education at a Glance: OECD Indicators is the authoritative source for information on the state of education around the world. With more than 125 charts and 145 tables included in the publication and much more data available on the educational database, Education at a Glance 2017 provides key information on the output of educational institutions; the impact of learning across countries; the financial and human resources invested in education; access, participation and progression in education; and the learning environment and organisation of schools.
Why do gender gaps in education and work persistEduSkills OECD
Despite significant progress in narrowing or closing some long-standing gender gaps in many areas of education and employment, in most countries, boys and girls are still not likely to be equally proficient in academic subjects, such as reading, mathematics and science. Moreover, boys and girls still show markedly different attitudes towards learning and aspirations for their future – and that has a significant impact on their decisions to pursue further education and on their choice of career.
This webinar presents OECD data highlighting how differences in attitudes towards failure and competition among boys and girls can influence their decisions about what to study in school and their career expectations. The data also illustrate how these attitudes, developed early in life, influence men’s and women’s career choices later on.
Education at a Glance is the authoritative source for information on the state of education around the world. It provides key information on the output of educational institutions; the impact of learning across countries; the financial and human resources invested in education; access, participation and progression in education; and the learning environment and organisation of schools.
The 2016 edition introduces a new indicator on the completion rate of tertiary students and another one on school leaders. It provides more trend data and analysis on diverse topics, such as: teachers’ salaries; graduation rates; expenditure on education; enrolment rates; young adults who are neither employed nor in education or training; class size; and teaching hours. The publication examines gender imbalance in education and the profile of students who attend, and graduate from, vocational education.
The report covers all 35 OECD countries and a number of partner countries (Argentina, Brazil, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, India, Indonesia, Lithuania, the Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia and South Africa).
This edition includes more than 125 figures and 145 tables. The Excel™ spreadsheets used to create them are available via the StatLinks provided throughout the publication. More data is available in the OECD Education Statistics database.
Presentation by Angus Davis to current and former members of the Board of Directors of the Rhode Island Foundation. May 21, 2009. Adapted from a presentation of national significance by Whitney Tilson with additional Rhode Island-specific research by Angus Davis, member, Board of Regents for Elementary and Secondary Education, State of Rhode Island.
Education at a Glance Interim Report:Update of Employment and Educational Att...EduSkills OECD
The social consequences of the crisis were still deepening in 2013, especially among the most vulnerable groups such as low-educated young adults. In most OECD countries more than four out of five younger adults have attained at least an upper secondary education, implying that one in six of them have qualifications below upper secondary education.
Education at a Glance 2020 - United States launchEduSkills OECD
Andreas Schleicher presents new Education at a Glance data for the United States, and puts it into the context of the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis.
Education at a Glance is the authoritative source for information on the state of education around the world. It provides data on the structure, finances and performance of education systems across OECD countries and a number of partner economies. More than 100 charts and tables in this publication – as well as links to much more available on the educational database – provide key information on the output of educational institutions; the impact of learning across countries; access, participation and progression in education; the financial resources invested in education; and teachers, the learning environment and the organisation of schools. The 2020 edition includes a focus on vocational education and training, investigating participation in vocational education and training at various levels of education, the labour market and social outcomes of vocational graduates as well as the human and financial resources invested in vocational institutions. Two new indicators on how vocational education and training systems differ around the world and on upper secondary completion rate complement this topic. A specific chapter is dedicated to the Sustainable Development Goal 4, and investigates the quality and participation in secondary education.
Education at a Glance 2020 - European Union launchEduSkills OECD
Andreas Schleicher presents new Education at a Glance data for the European Union, and puts it into the context of the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis.
Education at a Glance is the authoritative source for information on the state of education around the world. It provides data on the structure, finances and performance of education systems across OECD countries and a number of partner economies. More than 100 charts and tables in this publication – as well as links to much more available on the educational database – provide key information on the output of educational institutions; the impact of learning across countries; access, participation and progression in education; the financial resources invested in education; and teachers, the learning environment and the organisation of schools. The 2020 edition includes a focus on vocational education and training, investigating participation in vocational education and training at various levels of education, the labour market and social outcomes of vocational graduates as well as the human and financial resources invested in vocational institutions. Two new indicators on how vocational education and training systems differ around the world and on upper secondary completion rate complement this topic. A specific chapter is dedicated to the Sustainable Development Goal 4, and investigates the quality and participation in secondary education.
Education at a Glance 2020 - Global insightsEduSkills OECD
Andreas Schleicher presents new Education at a Glance data, with a focus on vocational education and training and its role in buffering the negative economic effects of the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis.
Education at a Glance is the authoritative source for information on the state of education around the world. It provides data on the structure, finances and performance of education systems across OECD countries and a number of partner economies. More than 100 charts and tables in this publication – as well as links to much more available on the educational database – provide key information on the output of educational institutions; the impact of learning across countries; access, participation and progression in education; the financial resources invested in education; and teachers, the learning environment and the organisation of schools. The 2020 edition includes a focus on vocational education and training, investigating participation in vocational education and training at various levels of education, the labour market and social outcomes of vocational graduates as well as the human and financial resources invested in vocational institutions. Two new indicators on how vocational education and training systems differ around the world and on upper secondary completion rate complement this topic. A specific chapter is dedicated to the Sustainable Development Goal 4, and investigates the quality and participation in secondary education.
Education at a Glance 2014 - United StatesEduSkills OECD
While a large share of US adults have a university-level education, slow growth rates have let the US slip behind many other nations in college completion.
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.
Fin de siecle: reengineering New Zealand higher education for life after the ...University of Limerick
New Zealand has a large higher education sector, with one of the highest rates of tertiary participation in the OECD. Under the 1989 Education Act, access to university is an entitlement for all students who successfully graduate from high school and, more uniquely, for all permanent residents, regardless of previous educational attainment, once they reach the age of 20 years. The system of budgetary support for higher education is also unusual, insofar as almost half the total funding goes directly to students (in the form of allowances and interest-free loans) rather than as grants to the providers. Sustained high participation rates have put this funding mechanism under strain over the last decade.
The global financial crisis has led to a sharp rise in projected public debt levels. After a major fiscal stimulus package in 2009, the economy is recovering and the government is under intense pressure to cut public spending. New Zealand has very high external debt levels, requiring constant refinancing, and the government needs to restore fiscal stability to retain the country’s AAA credit rating. New government policies are aimed at capping total enrolments in higher education and withdrawing access to loans for under-performing students. Grants to universities have been frozen for 2011 and some related funding lines cancelled. All eight New Zealand universities are currently facing a significant loss of government funding from 2011 and most are in the process of cutting costs and making redundancies.
In the years ahead, the demands on the public purse from an ageing population will intensify, forcing the government to make ongoing real terms cuts to spending on higher education in order to control government debt. These cuts will make the present funding model for New Zealand higher education unsustainable. Alumni donations in New Zealand are relatively uncommon as higher education is widely considered a public service and universities have been relatively unsuccessful in very recent years at growing international enrolments as a way of diversifying their revenue base. The only other source of significant revenue is for universities to be allowed to raise domestic tuition fees over time to full cost-recovery rates and for the government to target declining tuition subsidies and student allowances and loans more precisely on degrees with a strong ‘public good’ dimension (like teacher training) and low-income students.
These changes would signal an end to affordable and easily accessible higher education for New Zealand students. It is hard to avoid the conclusion that the global financial crisis has exposed flaws in the underlying ‘business model’ of New Zealand higher education and, by so doing, is likely to hasten the transformation of the system to a more expensive and selective system.
Higher Education Summit, Auckland, March 2010
Education Policy Outlook - Making Reforms HappenEduSkills OECD
Education Policy Outlook in Brief Looks at education reforms across 34 OECD countries that can touch the lives of more than 150 million students. There are common trends from the more than 450 reforms adopted across countries. With the crisis they are becoming more strategic. Education policy is not only about design. implementation and follow up are vital for success of reforms. The Outlook aims to support policy makers and others to make reform happen that translates into better education in our schools and classrooms
Education at a Glance OECD Indicators 2019EduSkills OECD
Education at a Glance is the authoritative source for information on the state of education around the world. It provides data on the structure, finances and performance of education systems across OECD countries and a number of partner economies. More than 100 charts and tables in this publication – as well as links to much more available on the educational database – provides key information on the output of educational institutions; the impact of learning across countries; access, participation and progression in education; the financial resources invested in education; and teachers, the learning environment and the organisation of schools.The 2019 edition includes a focus on tertiary education with new indicators on tertiary completion rates, doctoral graduates and their labour market outcomes, and on tertiary admission systems, as well as a dedicated chapter on the Sustainable Development Goal 4.
Working together to help education reforms work out EduSkills OECD
Andreas Schleicher
Special Advisor on Education Policy to the Secretary General - OECD
Director for Education and Skills
Taking the perspective of institutions and the system, Education Policy Outlook 2019: Working Together to Help Students Achieve their Potential, analyses the evolution of key education priorities and key education policies in 43 education systems. It compares more recent developments in education policy ecosystems (mainly between 2015 and 2019) with various education policies adopted between 2008 and 2014. This report includes around 460 education policy developments (with evidence of progress or impact for over 200 of them) spanning from early childhood education and care to higher education and lifelong learning on topics related to school improvement, evaluation and assessment, governance and funding. It looks into “what is being done”, as well as “why and how it works” to help education systems gain better understanding of how policies can have greater opportunities of success in their specific contexts.
This presentation by Andreas Schleicher, presented on 3 April 2017, takes a closer look at the PISA 2015 results for Sweden and what can be done to improve equity in its education system.
Strong performers and successful reformers in PISA 2012 lessons for SwedenEduSkills OECD
What do 15-year-old Swedes know……and what can they do with what they know? Of the 65 countries in PISA 40 improved at least in one of the three subjects – Sweden saw a decline
Education at a Glance: OECD Indicators is the authoritative source for information on the state of education around the world. With more than 125 charts and 145 tables included in the publication and much more data available on the educational database, Education at a Glance 2017 provides key information on the output of educational institutions; the impact of learning across countries; the financial and human resources invested in education; access, participation and progression in education; and the learning environment and organisation of schools.
Why do gender gaps in education and work persistEduSkills OECD
Despite significant progress in narrowing or closing some long-standing gender gaps in many areas of education and employment, in most countries, boys and girls are still not likely to be equally proficient in academic subjects, such as reading, mathematics and science. Moreover, boys and girls still show markedly different attitudes towards learning and aspirations for their future – and that has a significant impact on their decisions to pursue further education and on their choice of career.
This webinar presents OECD data highlighting how differences in attitudes towards failure and competition among boys and girls can influence their decisions about what to study in school and their career expectations. The data also illustrate how these attitudes, developed early in life, influence men’s and women’s career choices later on.
Education at a Glance is the authoritative source for information on the state of education around the world. It provides key information on the output of educational institutions; the impact of learning across countries; the financial and human resources invested in education; access, participation and progression in education; and the learning environment and organisation of schools.
The 2016 edition introduces a new indicator on the completion rate of tertiary students and another one on school leaders. It provides more trend data and analysis on diverse topics, such as: teachers’ salaries; graduation rates; expenditure on education; enrolment rates; young adults who are neither employed nor in education or training; class size; and teaching hours. The publication examines gender imbalance in education and the profile of students who attend, and graduate from, vocational education.
The report covers all 35 OECD countries and a number of partner countries (Argentina, Brazil, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, India, Indonesia, Lithuania, the Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia and South Africa).
This edition includes more than 125 figures and 145 tables. The Excel™ spreadsheets used to create them are available via the StatLinks provided throughout the publication. More data is available in the OECD Education Statistics database.
Presentation by Angus Davis to current and former members of the Board of Directors of the Rhode Island Foundation. May 21, 2009. Adapted from a presentation of national significance by Whitney Tilson with additional Rhode Island-specific research by Angus Davis, member, Board of Regents for Elementary and Secondary Education, State of Rhode Island.
Education at a Glance Interim Report:Update of Employment and Educational Att...EduSkills OECD
The social consequences of the crisis were still deepening in 2013, especially among the most vulnerable groups such as low-educated young adults. In most OECD countries more than four out of five younger adults have attained at least an upper secondary education, implying that one in six of them have qualifications below upper secondary education.
Education at a Glance 2020 - United States launchEduSkills OECD
Andreas Schleicher presents new Education at a Glance data for the United States, and puts it into the context of the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis.
Education at a Glance is the authoritative source for information on the state of education around the world. It provides data on the structure, finances and performance of education systems across OECD countries and a number of partner economies. More than 100 charts and tables in this publication – as well as links to much more available on the educational database – provide key information on the output of educational institutions; the impact of learning across countries; access, participation and progression in education; the financial resources invested in education; and teachers, the learning environment and the organisation of schools. The 2020 edition includes a focus on vocational education and training, investigating participation in vocational education and training at various levels of education, the labour market and social outcomes of vocational graduates as well as the human and financial resources invested in vocational institutions. Two new indicators on how vocational education and training systems differ around the world and on upper secondary completion rate complement this topic. A specific chapter is dedicated to the Sustainable Development Goal 4, and investigates the quality and participation in secondary education.
Education at a Glance 2020 - European Union launchEduSkills OECD
Andreas Schleicher presents new Education at a Glance data for the European Union, and puts it into the context of the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis.
Education at a Glance is the authoritative source for information on the state of education around the world. It provides data on the structure, finances and performance of education systems across OECD countries and a number of partner economies. More than 100 charts and tables in this publication – as well as links to much more available on the educational database – provide key information on the output of educational institutions; the impact of learning across countries; access, participation and progression in education; the financial resources invested in education; and teachers, the learning environment and the organisation of schools. The 2020 edition includes a focus on vocational education and training, investigating participation in vocational education and training at various levels of education, the labour market and social outcomes of vocational graduates as well as the human and financial resources invested in vocational institutions. Two new indicators on how vocational education and training systems differ around the world and on upper secondary completion rate complement this topic. A specific chapter is dedicated to the Sustainable Development Goal 4, and investigates the quality and participation in secondary education.
Education at a Glance 2020 - Global insightsEduSkills OECD
Andreas Schleicher presents new Education at a Glance data, with a focus on vocational education and training and its role in buffering the negative economic effects of the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis.
Education at a Glance is the authoritative source for information on the state of education around the world. It provides data on the structure, finances and performance of education systems across OECD countries and a number of partner economies. More than 100 charts and tables in this publication – as well as links to much more available on the educational database – provide key information on the output of educational institutions; the impact of learning across countries; access, participation and progression in education; the financial resources invested in education; and teachers, the learning environment and the organisation of schools. The 2020 edition includes a focus on vocational education and training, investigating participation in vocational education and training at various levels of education, the labour market and social outcomes of vocational graduates as well as the human and financial resources invested in vocational institutions. Two new indicators on how vocational education and training systems differ around the world and on upper secondary completion rate complement this topic. A specific chapter is dedicated to the Sustainable Development Goal 4, and investigates the quality and participation in secondary education.
Education at a Glance 2014 - United StatesEduSkills OECD
While a large share of US adults have a university-level education, slow growth rates have let the US slip behind many other nations in college completion.
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.
Key findings from the 2012 edition of Education at a Glance - European UnionEduSkills OECD
The crisis has reinforced the importance of good education. Over the past decade, more than two-thirds of GDP growth in EU countries was driven by labour income growth among tertiary-educated individuals (United States 51%). Even in the midst of the recession, labour income growth among tertiary graduates increased in the majority of EU countries
Innovating learning, social progress and humanity’s future gelp ile, durban...dvndamme
Keynote presentation at the OECD/CERI and GELP conference 'Building Future Learning Systems. From exceptional innovations to systemic transformation', in Durban, South Africa, 20 April 2015.
Were socio-economically advantaged students better equipped to deal with lear...EduSkills OECD
According to data from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), most students in 2018 responded that they believe in their ability to get through a difficult situation and are motivated to learn as much as possible.
But socio-economically disadvantaged students exhibit less of these beliefs and dispositions.
This may have serious implications for the unequal distribution of learning losses during the pandemic, meaning that poorer students may have been left behind to an even greater degree than we thought.
Andreas Schleicher, OECD Director for Education and Skills, presents a new analysis of PISA 2018 data and discusses what it can tell us about how prepared students across the world were for the hardships of learning during the COVID-19 crisis.
Prof. Roope Uusitalo, chairman of the Economic Policy Council, presented key findings and recommendations of the 2017 report on education policy.
Roope Uusitalo gave this presentation at Finland's Economic Policy Council 2017 report launch seminar. Launch was held in Helsinki on 23rd January, 2018.
See also:
http://www.talouspolitiikanarviointineuvosto.fi/en/reports/report-2017/
Connected Minds: Technology and Today's LearnerEduSkills OECD
OECD'S Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) Millennium Learners (NML) project the publication "Connected Minds: Technology and Today's Learners"
Presentation by Alberto Rodriguez, Manager, Education Global Practice, Europe...unicefmne
Presentation from the conference "Quality Education for Better Schools, Results and Future" organized by UNICEF and the Ministry of Education in Podgorica, July 8-10, 2014
The Education Policy Outlook 2018 - Putting Student Learning at the CentreEduSkills OECD
Taking the students’ perspective, Education Policy Outlook 2018: Putting Student Learning at the Centre analyses the evolution of key education priorities and key education policies in 43 education systems. It compares more recent developments in education policy ecosystems (mainly between 2015 and 2017) with various education policies adopted between 2008 and 2014. This report includes around 200 policies spanning from early childhood education and care (ECEC) to higher education and lifelong learning on topics such as: improving the quality and access to ECEC, promoting education success for all students, reducing the negative impact of some system-level policies and practices, increasing completion of upper secondary education, developing quality vocational education and training, enhancing the quality of tertiary education, supporting transitions across education pathways and the labour market.
PowerPoint by Mr. Andreas Schleicher, OECD Director for Education and Skills, Skills Summit 2018, Porto.
SESSION 2: DESIGN – Rethinking education and lifelong learning policies
Objective: Discuss how education and skills policies need to be redesigned to make the most of the digital transformation; discuss whether digitalisation is creating the need to adopt a lifelong learning approach to skills development
Technology and education in developing countriesFrancesc Pedró
Techniology and education in developing countries. Describes the challenges in relation to Education For All (2015) and the role that technology could play. Presents the four pillars of UNESCO's Strategy in this domain: policies, teachers, mobile learning, and open educational resources.
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.
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This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
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Keynote The Arkansas Distance Learning Association (ARDLA)
1. Challenges and opportunities
coming from a more open and
online world
The Arkansas Distance Learning Association
(ARDLA)
10 October 2012
Gard Titlestad
Secretary General
ICDE
2. Outline
• Introduction
• Higher education – a goldmine
• Global context
• Opportunities, trends and disruptive initiatives
• Paradoxes
• The users
• System failure
• A wake up call
• Conclusion
3. What is ICDE?
• the leading global membership organization for open and
distance education
• an NGO official partner of UNESCO, and shares that agency’s
key aim – the attainment of quality education for all
• member focused – ICDE is an organization which will involve
members in decision making, in cooperative action and in
cooperative problem solving.
• transparent – Members will be able to follow the activities
and decisions of ICDE.
• ICDE believes that in pursuing education as a universal right,
the needs of the learner must be central.
• senior management in member institutions is actively
involved in ICDE
4. Members
• 100 institutional
members
– All parts of the world
– Organises most of the
mega-universities
(>100.000 students)
• 10 regional associations
as associate members
• Also some national
associations and
individuals
5. Suggested
Strategic Objectives
The draft strategic Plan 2013 - 2016
1. To promote the importance of open, distance, flexible
and online (e-learning ) education in educational policy.
2. To encourage quality in open, distance, flexible and
online (e-learning) education.
3. To support the development of new methodologies
and technologies.
4. To facilitate cooperation and networking amongst
members.
5. To strengthen ICDE membership and governance, and
engage members in collaborative activity and
organizational development.
6. Paradoxes
• While governments world wide celebrate the
success of higher education, governmental
policies are out-dated and are not capable of
grasping the benefits from the most
constructive and disruptive factor in the higher
education sector: open and online education
• While the Academic world wants to show the
way – are universities and higher education
institutions prepared for reinventing
themselves?
9. 100
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
%
Norway
Iceland
Switzerland
Sweden
Netherlands
Chart A7.1
Slovenia
Germany
Denmark
Austria
Brazil
Portugal
United Kingdom
Luxembourg
Poland
Finland
Australia
Belgium
Tertiary education
the level of education
New Zealand
France
Below upper secondary
Czech Republic
OECD average
Employment prospects increase with
Israel
Percentage of 25-64 year-olds in employment, by level of education (2010)
Slovak Republic
Canada
Ireland
Mexico
United States
Upper secondary and post-secondary non-tertiary
Estonia
Greece
Spain
Japan
Chile
Hungary
Italy
Korea
Turkey
10.
11.
12. The crisis reinforces the
importance of good education
• Over the past decade, more than two-thirds of
GDP growth in EU21 countries was driven by
labour income growth among tertiary-educated
individuals, compared with just 51% in the United
States.
• Even in the midst of the recession in 2009, labour
income growth among tertiary graduates
increased in the majority of EU countries with
available data.
• In contrast, those with mid-range jobs and skills
felt the most severe impact of the 2009 drop in
GDP.
Education at a Glance: OECD Indicators 2012
13. Bottom line:
Higher Education – a goldmine
for the individual and the society
• For the individual – the
employment prospects
increase
• For the individual – the
net value is good
business
• For the public – cost
benefit is success!
– Documented by OECD in
Education at a glance
2012
14. Global need for barrier-free
access to higher education
• 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.”
”Four universities a week”
Open and distance elearning is needed!
15. Example Tianjin
• Need for re-
educating public
servants
• The City Council co-
operate with TOU
• Needs: 2 – 3 million
the next years?
16. Education has to contribute
to bringing youths back to
the labour market
Paris, 9 October 2012 - OECD Harmonised Unemployment Rates
17. World Development
Report 2013
• “The youth challenge alone is staggering.
More than 620 million young people are
neither working nor studying. Just to keep
employment rates constant, the worldwide
number of jobs will have to increase by
around 600 million over a 15-year period”
October 1, 2012
18. Mobilising the workforce:
Mobication
• Tomorrow’s employment
policies must create
conditions to facilitate
labour mobility through Education
the lifelong learning of
the individual.
• Coordination between
the labour market and Welfare Work
education policy is crucial
for business
competitiveness and
future welfare.
20. 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
21.
22.
23.
24. Internet is hitting
Education
• "The investing
community believes
that the Internet is
hitting
education, that
education is having
its Internet
moment,"
– Jose
Ferreira, founder of
the interactive-
learning company
Knewton.
26. ODL in rapid growth
• The world’s 18 largest mega-universities are open
universities serving more than 14.3 million students. Most
of these universities were founded after the 1970s.
• China: 1 of every 10 registered students in higher education
is a student at The Open University of China.
• Africa: African Virtual University has signed up with 21
countries and 28 Universities to provide Open and Distance
eLearning, based on OER and the Internet.
• 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.
28. The Future - USA
• 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
29. Crossroad or….
• 1,021 Internet experts, researchers, observers
and users, 60% agreed with a statement that by
2020:
• “there will be mass adoption of teleconferencing
and distance learning to leverage expert
resources … a transition to ‘hybrid’ classes that
combine online learning components with less-
frequent on-campus, in-person class meetings.”
• Some 39% agreed with an opposing statement
that said, “in 2020 higher education will not be
much different from the way it is today.”
Pew Internet/Elon University survey, July 2012
31. Disruptive innovation
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Disruptive innovation does not make a good product or service
better, but makes it more affordable and accessible, so more people
can purchase or use it.
32. Disruptive innovation — in education
For Anant Agarwal, MITx, the Institute’s
new online-learning initiative, isn’t just a
means of democratizing education. It’s a
way to reinvent it.
34. Many questions
• Motivation for MOOCs? Money, Branding or
doing the Good things?
• Sustainable?
• Business models?
• The cost savings – for quality or profit?
• Pedagogic quality? Flip the classroom?
• Lot of criticism
–Criticism can be the mother of
progress
36. Paradox
• That "much-touted online
university, where a student can get
a degree without ever
encountering another student
except online, is fine within the
portfolio of higher education,"
Sexton said. But for it to be "the
norm," he said, would be
"disgraceful.” John Saxton, President, New York University
– Inside Higher Ed
37. India
25% of Indian students are now
covered by distance education
Lakh = 100.000
38. Paradox
August 21, 2012
• India's New Rules for Foreign Universities
Raise Questions at Home and Abroad
• ……the new restrictions include allowing only
institutions ranked in the top 500 worldwide
to collaborate with Indian universities………
39. New iPhone could boost U.S. GDP by
up to 0.5 percent, JP Morgan says
40. Mobile connection booms
all over the world
• According to Wireless
intelligence institute:
– World cellular
connections in Q3
2012 closed at 6.4
billion
– Already next year
there will be more
connections than the
world´s population
41. Paradox
• Governments don´t responds to
UNESCO´s questionnaires.
• There is a lack of interest and
awareness on the part of
policymakers and the public,
• There are attitudes that see
mobile phones as disruptive
devices that students use
primarily to play games, chat
with friends and potentially
engage in inappropriate
behaviours such as cheating
and cyber-bullying.
43. Two books
• Comphrehensive
overview of challenges
for universities.
• In 416 pages: almost
nothing on the
opportunities and
challenges from a more
open and online world
• One sentence: ”Internet
offers an unused
revolution in the thinking
with regards to
The Academic world education.” End of story.
shows the way, Göran Bexell,
Lund University, Sweden
44. Two books
• Several articles, carefully
analysing how future
opportunities could be
met. Blended learning.
Experiences from the
Open Universitiy, UK, and
much more. Strong
innovation in the
university approach.
• Discussed with a holistic
approach to the future
university
Universitat Oberta de Catalunia,
Barcelona, Spain
45. While the Academic world wants to
show the way – are universities and
higher education institutions prepared
for reinventing themselves?
51. Universities:
ODL and OER can fuel
the Knowledge Triangle
High quality education Open Access
Research based education Research based OER
Resource based education Research based teaching
OER
and ODL
Innovation in education
Innovate the learning system and institutions
Knowledge supply for innovation
52. Universities:
ODL and OER can fuel
the Knowledge Triangle
• Through holistic, strategic and systematic work to increase
synergies in the flow between the components in the triangle:
• increase quality of education through resource based education
and through research based education, using OER and ODL
• easy access to research based education through research based
OER, open access and facilitation by technology and ODL
• build knowledge about education through research and
development and ensure the flow to education practitioners and
innovators
• stimulate innovation in institutions through using the opportunities
inherent in OER and ODL
• strengthen knowledge supply to public and private sectors using the
concepts of OER and ODL
• increase innovation in society through strengthened interaction
between the knowledge triangle and society”
54. School failure
– system 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
55. School failure
– system failure
One of five don´t complete
”Drop outs”
Or ”Push outs” (Hal Plotkin)
56. University drop-outs (or push outs?) cost 660
million Euros per year in Spain alone
Norway – 2005 - 2010
Total drop outs/push outs in higher education:
12% (Health educations)- 37 % (Management and Economy)
Only health educations have lower drop out rate than 20%
57. System failure or not?
In my nightmares: ”Why not? Drop outs are
fine. It filters for the talent pool – it filters
for the recruitment to the elite.”
Anonymous
58. Dr Qian Tang, Assistant Director-General for Education, UNESCO,
Flexible learning for inclusive education
• Yet all people, regardless of their
sex, race, religion, disability or national, ethnic and social
origin, are entitled to a quality education. Denying them
such an opportunity is not only an infringement of their
fundamental human rights; it is also a serious waste of
society’s human resources. Indeed, education that is
restricted to certain social groups deprives a country of
significant assets and skills that could be tapped to build
prosperous communities. Furthermore, it limits the impact
of national efforts to create peaceful, just, fair and cohesive
societies.
• Inclusive education is therefore non-negotiable.
59. Paradoxes
• While governments world wide celebrate the
success of higher education, governmental
policies are out-dated and are not capable of
grasping the benefits from the most
constructive and disruptive factor in the higher
education sector: open and online education
• While the Academic world wants to show the
way – are universities and higher education
institutions prepared for reinventing
themselves?
60. So;
• The added value from HE
• The need for HE around the world
• The need for linking jobcreation with knowledge supply
• The opportunities from a mor open and online world
• The opportunities from open and disruptive innovation
• The users needs
• The global system failure
• The observed paradoxes
62. To harvest the benefits from a more
Open and Online world
To be adressed:
Governments (wake up): Universities (shake up):
• Governmental policies to • Strategies and leadership
facilitate a wanted • Open and Conventional
development
universities to partner up
• Optimal regulatory and policy
framework for ODL, incentives • Faculty training, student
for OER – training for ODL
• Sector overarching policies for • Flip the classroom for
mobilising the workforce student-oriented and
• Initiatives for research, to personalised learning
support effective uptake of • Prepare for reinventing
quality ODL and OER yourself
63. To harvest the benefits from a more
Open and Online world
To be adressed:
HEI, private and public sector:
Build partnerships and agreements for
knowledge supply, mobilising the
workforce
64. Conclusion
• I believe we are at the beginning of a big debate
about the future learning system.
• We need a professional, policy-oriented
debate, in Europe, and throughout the world, on
the opportunities and challenges coming from a
more open and online world.
• Educational systems will be decided
nationally, but the direction will also be a global
issue.
• ICDE will be a visible and eager player in this
debate.
• And: You are welcome to join!