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.

1. Lifelong Learning and
Distance Education
5th World Forum for Lifelong Learning, Madrid, Spain
Gard Titlestad, Secretary General
International Council for Open and Distance Education
Member of the Governing Board

2. Open, Transparent,
Accountable and focus
on Good Governance
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3. To be the global facilitator for inclusive, flexible, quality learning and teaching in the digital age.
ICDE and LLL

4. Risk trends

5. • On 25 September 2015, the United Nations
General Assembly formally adopted the
universal, integrated and transformative 2030
Agenda for Sustainable Development, along
with a set of 17 Sustainable Development
Goals and 169 associated targets.

7. Education influencing all 17 SDGs

8. The Big Change

9. The Fourth
Industrial Revolution
Add now:
Artificial intelligence,
cognitive technologies and
robotics
Neurotechnologies
Ubiquitous presence of linked
sensors
New computing technologies
Virtual and augmented realities

10. As the
MOOCsMassiv Online and Open Courses
floodedhigher education
5 years ago
Now it is AI
Artificial Intelligence

11. 2014

12. 2017

13. 2017
Why Education Is
the Hardest Sector
of the Economy to
10 Roles For
Artificial
Intelligence In
Education
IBM Watson
Artificial intelligence will transform
universities. Here’s how
WEF
Newsweek
The Entire Internet
Only Matched the
Capacity of the Human
Brain in 2010
AI keynotes

15. Build awareness and
insight
Establish relevant courses
and educational offerings
to build competencies
Take part in the debate on
the future directions and
ethics

16. Target 3, point 43.:
A well-established, properly-
regulated tertiary education system
supported by technology, Open
Educational Resources (OERs) and
distance education modalities can
increase access, equity, quality and
relevance, and narrow the gap
between what is taught at tertiary
education institutions and what
economies and societies demand.
The provision of tertiary education
should be progressively free, in line
with existing international
agreements.

17. Where are we now?
One year after………..

18. To have economic growth you need 8 – 9 years average education.

21. Digitalisation and
technological development
Demographic development
Changing working life as
consequence of
globalisation
Why high
on agenda?

23. Cognitive intensity in the
old jobs goes down

25. will not be met unless stakeholders, drawing on humanistic
values, collaborate to lead the digital transformation of higher
education - making online, open, flexible, and technology
enhanced learning a part of the solution.

26. The vision is that for the first time
in human history it is possible to
achieve inclusive and quality
education for all.
(Sustainable Development Goal 4)

27. Enabled by Open and
Digitalisation
Creative Commons

28. The Chronicle of higher education
July 2017

29. Students’
preferred
learning
environments
Faculty´s
environments
EDUCAUSE ECAR
October 2016
Campus Technology
July 2017

32. EDUCAUSE ECAR
October 2016

33. 1.3 Contribute to
successful
development and
utilisation of Open:
• Open Education Resources
• Open Licensing
• Open Access
• Open Learning and
Education
• Open Knowledge
• Open Source
• Open Innovation
• Open Policy
ICDE and open

34. Educational Resources Open, Licensed Resources
+ 5 R

35. http://lumenlearning.com/announcement-5r-open-course-design-framework/

36. Ljubljana OER Action Plan 2017
adopted to support quality open
educational resources

37. Innovate
and
transform p
e
o
p
l
e
People

38. WHY
LIFELONG
LEARNING?

39. The paper concludes that the
globally converging discourse
of LLL tends to serve the
interests of the market ahead
of those of the community,
and argues that an alternative
characterization of LLL,
anchored in social justice, is
necessary in the light of the
2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development, and especially
Sustainable Development Goal
4,
which aims to ensure inclusive
and equitable quality
education and to promote
lifelong learning opportunities
for all.

40. While digitalization is sweeps throughout the globe:
The ICDE Lillehammer
Lifelong Learning Summit 2019
 Higher education meets business for lifelong learning for
the future
 Lifelong and flexible learning for innovation and jobs
 New knowledge and peer learning.
 High professional standards
 Demonstration and market place for technologies and
methodologies supporting lifelong learning
The ICDE and HINN International Summit for leaders, practioners, researchers and policymakers in
education, business and governments. For the sustainable world we want: Education 2030 – Ensure inclusive
and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.

41. ICDE Lillehammer
Lifelong Learning Summit,
February 11. – 13. 2019

42. Prof. Dae Joon Hwang, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea, djwang@skku.edu
UNESCO IITE Governing Board Member, Moscow
The 2017 Dujiangyan International Forum: Ensuring the Quality of Education and Lifelong Learning through ICT, 13-14
July2017, Chengdu, China
Technology Transformation
for Pedagogy Innovation
What is our ultimate goal?

43. Lifelong learning is about hope,
the wish to create and to participate

44. ”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