Author - Andras Szucs, Since 1997, Executive Director and from 2000 Secretary General of EDEN, the European Distance and E-Learning Network. Director of the Centre for Learning Innovation and Adult Learning at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics since 2000.

1. Dr Andras Szucs
European Distance and E-Learning Network

3.  Trends in education (as well):
 Globalisation - massification,
 Digitalisation - Commercialisation
 High public interest and demand worldwide
for knowledge and education
 Skills deficit often contributes to critical public approach to
education/training.
 Rapid changes in the field of ICT enhanced learning
 e-learning, Open Education, learning innovation, digital pedagogy...
 Digital content
 Increasing volume and improving quality

4.  Spectacularly improving performance of IT tools,
networks’ capacity...
 Digital content: Increasing volume and improving quality
 Decreasing prices, rapid spreading of cutting edge
technologies...
 Exponential increase of demand and use
Changing notion of access!
 Re-positioning the social impact of ICTs in learning
 Transformation of learning:
mostly outside of institutional settings,
... along unexpected pathways, with high diversity of
scenarios, with contradictions and provisionality

5.  Changing user habits and expectations
 Learners are more and more consumers
 Changing user habits = consumer habits
 Changing user habits = peers, partners, collaborators
 How to deliver learning
 ... at economics of scale for a very diverse
environment..?
 Granularity of educational products changes
 Micro-learning
 Finer currency increases market efficiency!

6.  Open Educational Resources and MOOCs
 raising questions on operational/management
feasibility of economic models at universities
 New stakeholder alliances emerge,
 supported by new social-economic demands,
clusters of interest
 low entry levels!
 Disaggregation of credentialing services:
 The credential is becoming increasingly
the job itself!

7.  Emphasis on recovering growth and
competitiveness
 Snapshot of EU perspectives to 2020:
 Enhancing job placement awareness of education
providers
 How well training is translated to employment
opportunity?
 How to translate curricula to carreer guidance?
 Partnership, apprenticeship programs
 Relationships between learning, living and society.
to communities extending beyond education:
intergenerational, cross cultural learning

8.  Low cost models in education is a challenge in
particular for universities
 Online course development as spontaneous knowledge
management
 Students use the social web most creatively...
 and build up wikis replacing LMS within short time...
 Learners are always ahead...

10.  Collaboration
 Transformation
 Open
 Access
 Security
 Complexity
 Process
 Technology
 Quality

11.  Economy – educational institutions – society
 Mobile: anywhere, any time...
 Flexibility...
 Working time is a 19th century invention...
 Airina:
 „We have everything at hand” –
 „Changes are just happening”

12. ... Students are always ahead...