This document discusses the need for resilience and agility in education, especially higher education, in a post-pandemic world in order to achieve goals like education for all and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. It argues that lifelong and lifewide learning will be crucial. The presentation focuses on defining new quality dimensions for education that incorporate well-being and social aspects of learning. It envisions universities in 2030 as being open, transformative institutions engaged with society. Creating a resilience ranking framework for higher education is discussed, with key criteria centered around diversification, flexibility, relevance, risk, values, trust, and well-being. A new quality agenda for education is needed that considers aspects like well-being, satisfaction,

1. Resilient agile
education for
lifelong learning
post pandemic to
meet the SDG
21 February 2021
Ebba Ossiannilsson
Prof. Dr.

4. Agenda
• Lifelong and lifewide learning are crucial to reach education for all
and to reach the SDGs 2030.
• Quality education for all is about social justice and human rights.
• The presentation will focus on why resilience and agility are crucial in
the post-pandemic era to reach such goals, and why the role of
education has to be redefined, at least in higher education
• In addition, the presentation will focus on a post pandemic quality
agenda.
• Some of the new quality dimensions are about wellbeing and the
social dimensions of learning.

12. Universities in 2030
• When looking to the future, we envision universities without walls;
these are universities that are open and engaged in society while
retaining their core values. All of Europe’s universities will be
responsible, autonomous and free, with different institutional profiles,
but united in their missions of learning and teaching, research,
innovation and culture in service to society.
• In this decade, universities will build on their capacity to evolve and
will become engines of societal change. They will provide an open,
transformative space for common knowledge production through
research, education, innovation and culture. Together with other
societal stakeholders, they will shape the future of a knowledge-
driven society.

13. Universities in
2030
• OPEN, TRANSFORMATIVE
AND TRANSNATIONAL
• SUSTAINABLE, DIVERSE AND
ENGAGED
• STRONG, AUTONOMOUS
AND ACCOUNTABLE

14. University missions in
203
• LEARNING AND TEACHING
• RESEARCH
• INNOVATION
• CULTURE

15. Factors for success
• ENABLING FRAMEWORKS
• ADEQUATE INVESTMENTS
• STRONG LEADERSHIP

16. Priorities for action
• REFORM ACADEMIC CAREERS
• PROMOTE
INTERDISCIPLINARITY
• STRENGTHEN CIVIC
ENGAGEMENT

18. Why
Resilience
Is
Imperative
in a Post-
Pandemic
World
(Frank
Diana,
2020)
TRANSFORMATION
REQUIRES A HOLISTIC
APPROACH TO AN
INTERCONNECTED
SYSTEM
ORGANIZATIONAL DNA
PROVIDES ESSENTIAL
BUILDING BLOCKS
BALANCING AN ADAPTIVE
CORE AND ENABLED
EDGE
RESILIENCE IS ALSO A
FUTURISTIC MINDSET
MEETING NEW
CHALLENGES WITH A
STRATEGY OF
RESILIENCE

27. How to create a resilience ranking
So what could a resilience ranking framework look like for higher education?
First, there should be a set of principles or criteria and accompanying metrics,
including complementary quantitative and qualitative metrics. Not for a second
should this task be underestimated in terms of data availability, measurement
and methodology and it should be emphasised that the kinds of things we are
putting forward are highly complex.
The key criteria or principles for resilience could centre on: diversification,
flexibility and innovation, relevance, risk, values, trust, value
maintenance, community outreach, and wellbeing. The existing rankings
schema touch, in part, on some of these criteria, but largely through the lens of
established parameters such as papers, citations and resourcing, for instance,
staff-student ratio.

28. STRATEGY
• Quality
• Creativity
• Courage
• Communication
• Character
• In addition, a C for campus
development

29. A need for
a new
quality
agenda
• Well-being
• Satisfaction
• Impact
• Cooperation
• Glocalization
• Global challenges
• Labor market / Business
• Relevance
• Resilience
• Gratitude
• Best learning moments
• Ranking
• Fulfillment
• Emotions
• Feelings
• Confindence
• Trust
• Etc.

30. My Footprints
www.i4quality.se
Ebba.Ossiannilsson@gmail.
com
info@i4quality.se
THANK YOU!
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