Liz Marr (OUUK) presented Blended and Online Learning Changing the Educational Landscape at OOFHEC2018 in Aarhus, Denmark

1. Aarhus, 19th October 2018
Liz Marr
Acting President
Blended and online Learning
Changing the Educational Landscape
OOPHEC Conference

2. THE CHANGING PEDAGOGICAL
LANDSCAPE
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3. Three areas of provision emerging
Degree education
Continuous
education /
CPD
Open
education,
MOOCs
InternationalNational
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4. Three areas of provision
Degree education zone, backbone in the education system to develop complex academic and
professional competences: bachelor, master, PhD – increasingly blended solutions to raise quality
and to face growing student numbers. Online distance higher education provides flexibility for
lifelong learners.
Continuous education and training on demand, valorisation of knowledge to support innovation
in the public and private sector, based on research and development. Flexibility requires online or
blended solutions, such as (virtual) seminars, CPD, knowledge alliance and corporate university
initiatives, short learning programmes, master classes, expert schools, etc. It includes knowledge
networks for professionals or business sectors.
Open education and knowledge sharing area, pushing knowledge online into the public domain:
OERs, MOOCs, open media, open access/open innovation materials – preferably to be designed
and arranged according to the needs of user groups/networks

5. EADTU
position paper
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Continuous education/continuous professional
development and open education by MOOCs and OER
are not sufficiently integrated in the development of
the European Higher Education Area.
Digital education can offer scalable, high quality and
cost-effective solutions for higher education of
tomorrow.
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6. Paris
Communiqué
24th May
2018
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We will enable our education systems to make
better use of digital and blended education, with
appropriate quality assurance, in order to enhance
lifelong and flexible learning, foster digital skills and
competences, improve data analysis, educational
research and foresight, and remove regulatory
obstacles to the provision of open and digital
education. We call on the Bologna Follow Up Group
(BFUG) to take the issue of digitalisation forward in
the next working period”.
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7. EADTU contribution to the
European dialogue on EHEA
EADTU offers support to the BFUG and will
open dialogue with it, based on the
experience and expertise of its members the
results of current projects in each of the
area of provisions, namely on blended
degree education; short on line programs
for continuing education and continuous
professional development; and on MOOCs
for the European labour market.
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8. Current European
projects • Blended on campus degree education:
EMBED
• Online short degrees: e-SLP
• European MOOC Consortium: MOOCs for
the EU Labour Market
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9. Blended
degree
education
(EMBED)
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• A European maturity model, based on research
and validated by good practices
• Matrurity assessment tools
• A MOOC on blended degree education
• Repositories of good practices
• Training seminars and multiplier events
• Policy recommendation at insitutional,
governmental and EU level
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10. Continuous
education/CPD
and online short
qualifications (e-
SLP)
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• A concept of short quals, based on needs analysis,
reseach and good practices
• A recognition and qualification framework for
short degrees, fitting in the EQF
• Pilotscollaborative short programmes and
mobility
• A European portal for online short programmes
• Institutional, governmental and EU policy
recommendations
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11. MOOCs for the
EU labour
market
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• Structure a EU market for continuous education/CPD
by short degrees and MOOCs
• Empower universities, employment services and
enterprises with regard to the development, delivery
and use of short degrees and MOOCs
• The assessment and recognition of MOOCs
• Making MOOCs for the EU labour market more
visible by a portal
• Institutional, governmental and EU policy
recommendations
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12. International
collaboration
and mobility
• European University network
• Ten year projects of EADTU and
other organisations
• EADTU Mobility Matrix
• EADTU Task Force
• EADTU PLA
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13. Point of
departure
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All universities can organise education and mobility
face to face, blended or online, depending on
teaching and learning models and educational
contexts.
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14. Definition of
mobility
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• University perspective: mobility takes place when two or
more universities organise and recognise study periods
followed by their students in an exchange program or in
a networked/joint program.
• Student perspective: students follow a learning activity,
a course or part of a curriculum in another university in
the framework of a bilateral or a network/consortium
agreement between universities.
• Staff perspective: Teaching staff is organising a learning
activity or teaching a course in the framework of a
bilateral or a network/consortium agreement
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15. eU.University Hub
• Online hub as an instrument for the
European Commission to promote
online course/curriculum
collaboration and virtual mobility in
Europe.
• The platform should be developed as
a host environment for existing EU,
national or regional platforms and
their activities, with the purpose to
expand them and scale them up at
European level.
• EADTU plans to contribute to a
coherent and consistent educational
framework for this hub.
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16. This
conference
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Blended degree education
Continuous education/CPD - short
degrees
Open Education – MOOCs/OER
International collaboration and
mobility
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