The document summarizes transformation of education in the era of openness and flexibility. It discusses how education is transforming through online, open, flexible and technology enhanced approaches to achieve inclusive and equitable quality education for all as outlined in the UN's Sustainable Development Goal 4. Key points discussed include the rapid expansion of higher education enabled by technology, the need to transform pedagogical approaches and develop new skills for students and teachers, and how open approaches can help drive this transformation for a sustainable future.

1. Transformation of Education in
the Era of Openness and
Flexibility
9-10 November 2017, Kaunas, Lithuania
Gard Titlestad, Secretary General
International Council for Open and Distance Education
Member of the Governing Board

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4. Transformation of Education in the Era of
Openness and Flexibility
WHY Transform Education?
Learners and societal needs
The big shift
The global risks and SDGs

6. Informal/non-formal
RAPID AND DIVERSE EXPANSION OF
HIGHER EDUCATION ENROLMENT
100 mill
200 mill
2000 2015 2030
435 mill
Only possible facilitated by technology and flexible learning

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

8. Enabled by Open and
Digitalisation
Creative Commons

9. Stephen Alvarez/National Geographic, Creative

10. “Financing is one of the greatest
challenges faced by the low
income and middle income
countries in achieving SDG 4 by
2030,”
said H.E. Mr Nurul Islam Nahid, Minister
of Education of Bangladesh

11. «Google, Facebook, Amazon
and Apple rob nations»
«Paradise Papers», 8 November 2017

12. The bigshift

13. 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

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

15. 2014

16. 2017

17. 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

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

21. The Learners

23. Play
Retire
Learn
Job
Play Learn Job
The new pradigm of
lifelong learning

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

27. Kravene til nyutdannede
i ”gamle” jobber synker

29. WHY
LIFELONG
LEARNING?

30. 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.

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

32. Transformation of Education in the Era of
Openness and Flexibility
Transform through?
Through online, open, flexible and
technology enhanced

33. The Chronicle of higher education
July 2017

34. Innovate and transform the
learning process

35. Learning
activities &
resources
Organising
Pedagogical
approach
Learning
outcome
Assessment
Content
Target
group
Didactical model
From: Quality in
Online teaching – Flexible education Norway 2017

36. Webinar
Get known
Theory
video
Self paced
Learning blog Webinar
Towards final
assessment
Crowdsourcing
Gather
resources
Group task
Case
Learning
objectives
Learning
outcome
Test Peer
assessment
Comments
on the blog
Repete
Q & A
Co-writing
Immediate
feedback
Oral
presentation
Written
feedback
Learning process
Feedback - assessment
From: Quality in
Online teaching – Flexible education Norway 2017

37. ICT infrastructure – high capacity networks
Education providers basicinfrastructure, LMS, SIS
Institution wide applications e-assessment, learning analytics
Applications for interactions, creativity, collaboration and motivation
Student
support
Teacher
support
Content and devices
Facilitating
innovative pedagogy

38. Student
support
Teacher
support
Facilitating
innovative pedagogy
Time to market
http://www.nmc.org/publication/nmc-horizon-report-2017-higher-education-edition/

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

40. Survey
• 1. OER uptake is increasing rapidly towards
tipping point
• 2. OER uptake is steadily increasing
• 3. OER uptake is stable
• 4. OER is a flop
• 5. I do not know really what OER is

41. Open!

42. 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

43. Educational Resources Open, Licensed Resources
+ 5 R

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

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

46. ICDE main responses
Project in the pipeline:
Connecting Quality OER
Repositories
ICDE OER Advocacy Committee
ICDE Chairs in OER

47. To Come in 2019
UNESCO Recommendation for
Future International Collaboration
in the field of Open Educational
Resources (OER)
UNESCO General Conference Decision 8 November 2017:

48. Transformation of Education in the Era of
Openness and Flexibility
Transform for the future?

49. Risk trends

50. • 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.

53. Main principles
• Education is a fundamental human right and
an enabling right.
• Education is a public good, of which the state
is the duty bearer.
• Gender equality is inextricably linked to the
right to education for all.

55. 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.

56. Education influencing all 17 SDGs

57. 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?

58. Transform for:
• Affordable access to job relevant,
quality higher education.
• SDG 4: “Ensure inclusive and quality
education for all and promote
lifelong learning.”
• Transform education for all 17 SDGs

59. ”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

60. UDACITY:
The MOOCs are dead
It was Udacity vice president Clarissa Shen
who this week said “they are dead,” when
talking about MOOCs in an interview with
The Economic Times in India. “MOOCs are
a failed product, at least for the goals we
had set for ourselves,” she told the
newspaper. “Our mission is to bring relevant
education which advances people in
careers and socio-economic activities, and
MOOCs aren't the way.”

61. Crucial for HEI (spend)
2018 CIO Agenda: Higher Education Industry Insights, 30 October
2017
1.Business intelligence and analytics.
23% (3)
2.Enterprise resource planning. 15% (2)
3.Customer relationship management. 12% (8)
4.E-learning / Learning Management Systems.
11% (6)
5.Infrastructure / data center. 11% (7)
6.Cloud services / solutions. 10% (5)
7.Student information system. 6% (10)
8.Digitalization / digital marketing. 5% (-)
9.Security / risk. 4% (1)
10.Networking, voice / data communications. 4%
(4) https://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/3821765

62. Models for online, open, flexible and
technology enhanced higher education across
the globe – a comparative analysis
Primarily online
providers (n=21)
Primarily distance and
correspondence
providers (n=9)
Primarily campus-
based providers
(n=17)
Online Assessment 95% 44% 82%
Open Educational
Resources (OER) 86% 78% 94%
Learning Management
System (LMS) 86% 89% 94%
Mobile Learning 81% 78% 71%
Social Media 71% 78% 82%
Virtual Learning
Environment (VLE) 71% 44% 29%
Massive Open Online
Course (MOOC) 57% 56% 35%
Videoconference 57% 56% 65%
Learning Analytics 52% 33% 18%
Eportfolios 43% 22% 41%
Bring Your Own Device
(BYOD) 43% 11% 71%
Wikis 33% 11% 35%
Teleconference 33% 44% 29%
Blogging and micro-
blogging 29% 0% 41%
Digital Badging 14% 0% 18%
Artificial Intelligence 5% 0% 6%

63. 6 key OOFAT models

64. OOFAT at the core
OOFAT at the core