The document summarizes eight parallel workshops that will take place on July 16th. Workshop 1 will discuss the role of higher education institutions in sustainable development. Workshop 2 will focus on strategies for internationalization that maximize benefits and minimize risks. Workshop 3 will examine policies and practices that promote equitable access and student retention. Workshop 4 will discuss public-private partnerships to increase higher education capacity. Workshop 5 will address changing models of institutional governance. Workshop 6 will look at the impact and future of the Bologna Process in Europe and beyond. Workshop 7 will explore the involvement of higher education in initiatives like Education for All and the Millennium Development Goals. Workshop 8 will debate how to create a higher education area built on solidarity between institutions globally
My presentation at OEB21 Shaping the Future of Learning
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My presentation at OEB21 Shaping the Future of Learning
Diverse. Collaborative. Transformative
on The New Normal is about Resilience, Sustainability, and the Social Contract
Online learning innovation for higher educationicdeslides
This keynote at the International Forum for Partnerships on the Qingdao Declaration, Qingdao, China, discusses new policies for online, open and flexible learning in relation to the new Sustainable Development Goal 4: Education 2030. A simple foresight for Education 2030 post secondary education is presented. Three principles for implementing Education 2030 (megapolicies: Innovation, Openness and Collaboration ) are illustrated with actual cases.
The Future of Higher Education, the Future of Learningicdeslides
Presentation given at Higher Education Leadership Forum
Dubai, 12 – 13 November 2013 by Gard Titlestad, Secretary General, International Council For Open and Distance Education, ICDE
Keynote held at the International ICDE-MESI conference "Connecting the World through Open, Distance and e-Learning" in Moscow, Russia, 25 September 2014. The conference had about 200 participants from about 40 countries.
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.
Access and enhancing the quality of higher educationicdeslides
Sustainable Development Goals: Ensuring Access and Enhancing the Quality of Education. Lecture at the UNESCO IITE Series of Open Lectures at St. Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation 5-6 September 2016, St Petersburg, Russia
MOOCs offer opportunities but are also pose the danger of further exacerbating existing educational divisions and deepening the homogeneity of global knowledge systems. Like many universities globally, South African university leaders and those responsible for course, curriculum, and learning technology development are coming to grips with the implications and possibilities of online and open education for their own institutions. What opportunities do they offer to universities, especially from the point of view of research-focused campus-based institutions which have not yet
engaged with MOOCs and have little history with online courses? Given the complexities of the MOOC-scape, this paper provides a means for contextualising the
options within an institutional landscape of educational provision as possibilities for MOOC creation, use and adaptation.
This presentation about Open Education focuses on Open Educational Practice and Open Access. It was delivered as part of the Jisc Digital Leaders programme on 20th November 2015. The presentation was collaboratively put together by @celeste_mcl (focussed on OEP) and @hblanchett (focussed on Open Access).
Education and learning is probably that single phenomenon that has the greatest impact on humans and societies, in particular in a long-term perspective (OECD 2014).
Grand challenge number one is to breach the trend preventing developing countries, in particular South of Everyone aspiring for higher education should have the right to affordable access. This is grand challenge number two. And it cannot be met without open education and technology enhanced learning.Sahara, taking part in the global knowledge revolution.
Three messages:
• Senior management in education needs to innovate from within to open up education.
• Governments must take firm decision on holistic policies for open and distance education.
• Stakeholders should team up meeting the two grand challenges through open education and technology enhanced learning.
Online learning innovation for higher educationicdeslides
This keynote at the International Forum for Partnerships on the Qingdao Declaration, Qingdao, China, discusses new policies for online, open and flexible learning in relation to the new Sustainable Development Goal 4: Education 2030. A simple foresight for Education 2030 post secondary education is presented. Three principles for implementing Education 2030 (megapolicies: Innovation, Openness and Collaboration ) are illustrated with actual cases.
The Future of Higher Education, the Future of Learningicdeslides
Presentation given at Higher Education Leadership Forum
Dubai, 12 – 13 November 2013 by Gard Titlestad, Secretary General, International Council For Open and Distance Education, ICDE
Keynote held at the International ICDE-MESI conference "Connecting the World through Open, Distance and e-Learning" in Moscow, Russia, 25 September 2014. The conference had about 200 participants from about 40 countries.
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.
Access and enhancing the quality of higher educationicdeslides
Sustainable Development Goals: Ensuring Access and Enhancing the Quality of Education. Lecture at the UNESCO IITE Series of Open Lectures at St. Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation 5-6 September 2016, St Petersburg, Russia
MOOCs offer opportunities but are also pose the danger of further exacerbating existing educational divisions and deepening the homogeneity of global knowledge systems. Like many universities globally, South African university leaders and those responsible for course, curriculum, and learning technology development are coming to grips with the implications and possibilities of online and open education for their own institutions. What opportunities do they offer to universities, especially from the point of view of research-focused campus-based institutions which have not yet
engaged with MOOCs and have little history with online courses? Given the complexities of the MOOC-scape, this paper provides a means for contextualising the
options within an institutional landscape of educational provision as possibilities for MOOC creation, use and adaptation.
This presentation about Open Education focuses on Open Educational Practice and Open Access. It was delivered as part of the Jisc Digital Leaders programme on 20th November 2015. The presentation was collaboratively put together by @celeste_mcl (focussed on OEP) and @hblanchett (focussed on Open Access).
Education and learning is probably that single phenomenon that has the greatest impact on humans and societies, in particular in a long-term perspective (OECD 2014).
Grand challenge number one is to breach the trend preventing developing countries, in particular South of Everyone aspiring for higher education should have the right to affordable access. This is grand challenge number two. And it cannot be met without open education and technology enhanced learning.Sahara, taking part in the global knowledge revolution.
Three messages:
• Senior management in education needs to innovate from within to open up education.
• Governments must take firm decision on holistic policies for open and distance education.
• Stakeholders should team up meeting the two grand challenges through open education and technology enhanced learning.
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What do the World Bank, UNESCO, the Commonwealth of Learning (COL), the Inter-American Development Bank, and numerous
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take advantage of advances in digital technologies and e-learning design to provide education, training, and professional development
opportunities to people in developing countries who previously could not partake of these opportunities. One such delivery
mechanism has been the massive open online course (MOOC) as well as various MOOC-like derivatives. Another is the use of
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Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
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1. Parallel Workshops<br />Series A: Wednesday 16 July, 16:30 – 18:00<br />1. Higher Education and Sustainable Development<br />Room: Wit, Educatorium<br />Higher education institutions are increasingly involved in the vast array of issues covered by the concept of sustainable development. They are concerned about environmental degradation, social regulation and deregulation, economic imbalances both locally and globally. Higher education leaders are more and more convinced that it is higher education teaching and research that will make a difference and enable tomorrow’s society to find ways “to meet the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” The number of research projects, programmes, courses, policies and conferences at all education levels, including higher education, devoted to the different aspects of sustainable development is rising. This workshop will illustrate a particular approach - Regional Centres of Expertise, developed by UNU, but will also discuss other possible paths, identify remaining gaps in HEI commitment and possible actions still needed by HEIs.<br />IAU PartnerChairRietje van Dam Mieras, Board of Directors, Leiden University, TheNetherlandsSpeakers•Hans van Ginkel, Former Rector UNU, Utrecht University, Past PresidentIAU•A.H. Zakri, Director, United Nations University - Institute of AdvancedStudies (UNU-IAS), Yokohama, Japan•Heloise Buckland, Coordinator, Barcelona Regional Centre of Expertise, Centre for Sustainability (CITIES) Technical University of Catalonia, Spain•Dorcas Otieno, Executive Director, Kenya Organization for EnvironmentalEducation (KOEE), Nairobi, Kenya, Kenya Regional Centre of Expertise<br />2. Internationalization – Institutional Strategies for Optimizing Benefits and<br />Mitigating Risks<br />Room: Rood, Educatorium<br />The IAU 2005 Global Survey on Internationalisation of Higher Education clearly indicated that higher education institutions from around the world perceive both the benefits and the risks in current internationalization developments. This session will invite participants to engage directly in small group discussions about various institutional strategies to ensure how to increase the numerous benefits (opportunities for staff and students, improvement of academic quality, change in curriculum, etc). The most pressing risks (such as commercialization and commodification of higher education, concerns with quality provision and increasing number of degree mills, brain drain, etc) also need institutional responses and strategies to mitigate such risks. The Workshop will rely on several resource persons and the active participation of all present. Their task will be to share insights in developing and implementing strategies and new activities which minimize such negative effects, and innovative approaches to make the benefits of internationalization accessible to more people and more institutions everywhere.<br />Chair Pari Johnston, Director of International Relations, International Affairs<br />Branch, Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC)<br />Expert Resource Persons and Scenarios<br />1: Richurbana University<br />Room: 102<br />Madeleine Green, Vice-President American Council on Education (ACE), USA<br />2: Runaway Business University<br />Room: 103<br />Thomas Wu, Director of Academic Links, The Chinese University of Hong<br />Kong, China<br />Scenario 3: Fairplay University<br />Room: 104<br />Georges Nahas, Vice-President, Balamand University, Lebanon<br />Scenario 4: Muchinneed University<br />Room: 109<br />James Otieno Jowi, Chair, Network of Emerging Scholars on<br />Internationalization of Education in Africa, Moi University, Kenya<br />3. Keys to Equitable Access and Successful Retention Strategies in Higher Education<br />Room: 42, Educatorium<br />The rhetorical commitments to increasing and broadening access to higher education are well known. However, many obstacles stand in the way. Often these obstacles are interrelated and recurring; they include limited institutional capacity, insufficient resources (human and financial), inadequate prior preparation of learners, poor fit with learning needs, language barriers, etc.. This workshop will examine some of the policies and practices at the institutional and governmental levels that can serve to overcome these obstacles and secure equitable access, successful retention and graduation.<br />ChairJosé Gomes, Vice-Rector, University of Porto, IAU Deputy-Board Member, PortugalSpeakers•Shyam Menon, Central Institute of Education, University of Delhi, India•Jacqueline E. King, Director, Center for Policy Analysis, AmericanCouncil on Education<br />4. Public-Private Partnerships to Meet Demands for Higher Education<br />Room: A, Educatorium<br />If public funding is no longer sufficient to meet the demand for higher education, what kinds of public- private partnerships are needed to fill the financial gap? What other benefits are to be gained by such partnerships in terms of higher education and research? Are there examples from other, traditionally public service sectors from which higher education could learn? What policy frameworks are required to mobilize the private sector to provide support for and to collaborate with higher education institutions while respecting their autonomy and values? What changes are needed in the HEIs to create the conditions for the establishment of productive and mutually beneficial partnerships that are attractive to the private sector? These and other issues will be the focus of this workshop where participants will share lessons learned, difficulties or constraints encountered and investigate strategies for making such public-private partnerships work to increase higher education capacity and relevance.<br />ChairMaurits van Rooijen, President, Compostela Group of Universities, Vice- President (International and Institutional Strategy) University of Westminster, London, UKSpeakers•Svava Bjarnason, Senior Education Specialist, IFC, World Bank Group, Washington, USA•Piyushi Kotecha, Chief Executive Officer, Southern African RegionalUniversities Association ( SARUA)<br />5. Institutional Governance in Higher Education: the Changing Face of Higher<br />Education Management<br />Room: 40, Educatorium<br />Institutional governance is about the distribution and exercise of decision-making authority. Who is in charge of academic, financial and administrative decisions and how these are negotiated within the institution are matters undergoing major changes in many countries of the world. The introduction of new approaches and reforms in institutional decision-making structures are also transforming the relationships and responsibilities of HEIs vis-à-vis the State and Society more generally. This workshop will examine some of these and other questions that are emerging in the discourse and practice on the governance of higher education institutions.<br />ChairJeroen Huisman, Professor of Higher Education Management, Director of the International Centre for Higher Education Management (ICHEM), Bath University, UK, and Editor, Higher Education Policy (HEP), IAUSpeakers•Glen Jones, Associate Dean, Academic at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada•Prof. Sudjarwadi, Rector, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia<br />6. The Bologna Process Beyond 2010 and Beyond Europe?<br />Room: B, Educatorium<br />The Bologna Process will reach a historical landmark in 2010, when all HEIs in Europe are expected to have implemented the principles set out in 1999. July 2008 will offer an opportunity to look back on achievements and ahead to what still needs to be done. Participants from European HEIs and institutions from around the world will be able to discuss the impact of changes introduced by the Bologna Process – impact inside participating countries but also outside Europe. For instance, is the Bologna Process a<br />‘brand’ that Europe can now export? What initiatives have other regions taken to integrate their higher education systems? How has the Bologna process changed student, faculty and staff mobility? What impact has it had on higher education internationalization policies in general? How do other regions profile themselves against the new European Higher Education Area (EHEA)? How has the Bologna Process impacted on the research front? Is the European Research Area (ERA) close to being achieved?<br />IAU Partner<br />ChairRoch Denis, Former Rector, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), IAU Board Member, Canada<br />Speakers•Lesley Wilson, Secretary-General, European University Association<br />(EUA), Brussels, Belgium<br />•Rafael Cordera Campos, Secretary-General,UDUAL, Mexico<br />7. Higher Education Responding to the Challenges of ‘Education for All’ and the<br />Millennium Development Goals<br />Room: C, Educatorium<br />Despite the fact that higher education institutions are usually where teachers are trained and where pedagogical research is carried out, higher education is practically an invisible stakeholder in the initiatives to secure Education for All (EFA) and the education-related Millennium Development Goals. At the same time, the number of students knocking on the doors of higher education is increasing in all developing nations, mostly due to the advances made to reach these important objectives. It is not surprising to learn, through a recent IAU project, that higher education institutions are and wish to be more involved in these movements. Furthermore, such involvement is also supported by education research and numerous field studies that urge policy makers to consider education in a holistic way, drawing links between various sub- sectors and levels. The workshop will also provide an opportunity to showcase actions undertaken by higher education institutions in EFA and MDGs and allow participants to share views about why and how the higher education sector should be involved and contribute to meeting these UN objectives on time.<br />ChairEnoch Duma Malaza, Chief Executive Officer, Higher Education South Africa(HESA)Speakers•Norihiro Kuroda, Director/Professor, Centre for the Study of International Cooperation in Education (CICE), Professor, Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation (IDEC), Hiroshima University, Japan•N.V. Varghese, Head, Higher Education and Specialized Training, International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP)<br />8. Creating a Higher Education Area Built on Solidarity<br />Room: Megaron, Educatorium<br />The past decade of globalization has resulted in considerable change in higher education everywhere. Fuelled notably by the large increase in academic mobility, by the emergence of and growing offers from the private higher education sector and by the advent of distance education, the situation is seemingly leading to several paradoxes. Indeed, the gap between research and training institutions around the world has never been so great, both in terms of approaches and capacity, and this despite a growth in exchanges and link between them.<br />International competition between institutions seems to have been progressively recognized, while growing divides have appeared between institutions in the North and in the South. The former are generally better off in terms of human and material resources, although they are facing new challenges. The latter have to cope with limited resources and a demographic explosion, while still having to tackle the demands of development and the setting up of international standards. During this workshop, participants will debate how to create a higher education area built on solidarity.<br />IAU PartnerChairJean-Dominique Assié, Director, programme « Renforcement de l’excellence universitaire, partenariats et relations avec les entrepries», Agence universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF)Participants•Jamil Salmi, Coordinator, Network of tertiary education professionals, World Bank, Competition or Solidarity: New Challenges for Higher Education•Alain Arconte, President, Regional Caribbean Rectors, Presidents and Heads of University Institutes Conference (CORPUCA)<br />A simultaneous translation service into French will be available for this workshop DD<br />