Make the difference!

Gard Titlestad, Secretary GeneralInternational Council For Open and Distance Education

Global Trends in Open, Distance and e-Learning

• To be the leading global network for making quality learning accessible throughout the world using open, distance, flexible and online education.

• To connect institutions, organisations and professionals from across the globe so that they can share ideas, resources and best practices, partner on major projects and advocate together.

• To be the official partner of UNESCO, that shares that agency’s key aim – the attainment of quality education for all

• ICDE believes that in pursuing education as a universal right, the needs of the learner must be central.

• To organize members in all regions of the world

25 Years SupportFrom Norway

Why is ICDE here?

Issues:• Future policies for ODL• Quality oversight and the road ahead• Student Success• Global research agenda on ODL• Academic quality

Two policy forum planned, input factors on the issues:

20 November 2014: Open EducationKey issues in policy for governments and senior management in higher education

High Level Policy Forum 17 October 2015: Open Education: Key issues and policy advices for governments and senior management in higher education

Interventions, from UNESCO, ICDE and stakeholders from organisations, public and private sector

Initiatives to forward oriented discussions, example:

•Support Open Education 2.0 – why, what, where, when

– To be discussed at Online EDUCA– http://www.online-educa.com/programme

Ongoing Global Dialogue

Other events in the near future

International ConferenceMoscow, 14-15 OctoberNew Challenges for Pedagogy and Quality Education:MOOCs, Clouds and Mobiles

Participation and keynote, followed by governing board

Participation, keynote and panel on international associations

ICDE Featured Session and Participation. Partner meetings.

Partnership and collaboration

To make a difference through

open education!

Why?

Andreas Schleicher, OECD, Wellington, 28 March 2014

Education:

Power to transform

http://stemarts.com/lanl/explore-the-worldhttp://www.millennium-project.org/index.html

EducationAverage years of education

The world Africa south of SaharaYears of education West-Europe

This is ourChallenge

Source: Aftenposten/OECD. How Was Life? Shows long-term progress in key areas of well-being

Not possible without open and distance eduction.

The BIG picture

• The growth in higher education is massive

20442030

320

4002007 - 2030

Mill. students

EU/OECD projections the need for HEby 2030: 410 mill.

This is ourChallenge

Not possible without open and distance eduction.

The future hot spots

- Asia- Africa

Credit: A. Raftery / UWWorld population stabilization unlikely this century. Science, 18 September 2014

But also Latin America and the Caribbean

Not only volume• The changes in higher education is dramatic

Opening up the road to knowledge

Opening up?

Openknowledge

Societal needs

Technology

Students needs and

expectations

OERCost

Trends, within

the framwork of globalisation and internationalisation

HE needs – 1 U a week

Demographics

Globalisation

Enabling economic growth

Access

Open Access

eInfrastructureseScience

Automation

Robots Sensors

2020 – 80% connectedInternet of things Open Research

Open Data

Open Innovation

US quadruppling

Southern Europe….

Developing economies

ICT Habitus

Flexibility

Employability

Lifelong

Disruptive Innovations

Openknowledge

By Jonah Newman and Soo Oh, June 13, 2014 (Harvard and MIT data)http://chronicle.com/article/8-Things-You-Should-Know-About/146901/

8 Things You Should Know About MOOCs

• 1. The overwhelming majority of MOOC students are male• 2. MOOCs attract students who already have college degrees• 3. The median age of MOOC participants is 24• 4. One-third of MOOC participants are from North America• 5. Nearly half of registrants never engage with any of the

content• 6. Europeans view the most course content• 7. Students with a doctorate viewed more course material• 8. Serial students are the most engaged

The Open University Catalunia

Innovate from within, put faculty in the lead

2014 2011

The Innovative University: What College Presidents Think About Change in American Higher Education, Chronicle

Trends

The BIG Picture

• Open, Online and Distance Education is steadily increasing all over the world

IndiaSweden

Russia

South America

The US

AfricaAustralia

China

January 2014

2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 20130

200000

400000

600000

800000

1000000

1200000

TotalPúblicoPrivado

Alunos de graduação a distancia no Brasil

Carlos BielschowskyPresident of Aiesad and Fundação CECIERJ

The BIG picture

• Online, Distance (ODL) and on Campus Learning are converging => Blended

BlendedODLCampus

• And as a result – an even more diverse higher education landscape……

http://www.kavliprize.org/events-and-features/2014-kavli-prize-science-forum

Kavli Science Forum: "Higher Education in the 21st Century - The Technological Revolution in Open Education: The Death of a Traditional System or the Next Wave of Democracy?"

The BIG picture

• Three streams work in parallel:

– Online becomes mature – and Internet/mobile: freedom from distance, mobile broadband: freedom from location

– New methodologies, content and pedagogy – new opportunities for student supportive teaching

– New knowledge about the brain and learning, new knowledge in neurosciences

The Governments move…..

BIG

Ref. Yang Zhijian, president Open University of China, ICDE world Conference, Tianjin, China October 2013

“Promote open educational resources, to help teachers and students everywhere.”

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/09/24/celebrating-open-government-around-globe

Open and OnlineMoves into the political agenda

“On-line and e-learning, open educational resources, MOOCs, smart-education and other e-technologies and e-resources: Legislative and regulatory support for their development and application in national

educational systems. Russian and foreign experience”

Moscow, 24 September 2014 Gard Titlestad, Secretary General

International Council For Open and Distance Education

Round table discussion, State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation

The Governments move…..Small

http://www.regjeringen.no/mobil/nb/dep/kd/dok/nouer/2014/NOU-2014-51.html?id=766892

• The Norwegian MOOC Commission was appointed by Royal Decree on 21 June 2013.

• Final report, green paper, June 2014.

• Now on broad consultation• A white paper on

structures and financial regulations foreseen in 2015.

http://www.faberface.com/

The Regions move…..

”The main goal of this initiative is to stimulate ways of learning and teaching through ICT and digital content, mainly through the development and availability of OER.”http://www.openeducationeuropa.eu/en/initiative

The European Commission's Opening up Education initiative in a nutshell

OER and Open and Distance Learning can increase the impact of

investments in knowledge

OER &ODL

Open Access – open scienceResearch based OERResearch based teaching

Innovation in education – open innovationInnovate the learning system – flip the classroomKnowledge supply for innovation

High quality educationResearch based educationResource based educationOpen education

1. Foster awareness and use of OER2. Facilitate enabling environments for use of Information and

Communications Technologies (ICT)3. Reinforce the development of strategies and policies on OER4. Promote the understanding and use of open licensing frameworks5. Support capacity building for the sustainable development of

quality learning materials6. Foster strategic alliances for OER7. Encourage the development and adaptation of

OER in a variety of languages/cultural contexts8. Encourage research on OER9. Facilitate finding, retrieving and sharing of OER10.Encourage the open licensing of educational

materials produced with public funds

2012 Paris OER Declaration

THE STATE OF HIGHER EDUCATION:Selected key findings and rec.

• Findings• The public and individuals benefit from

higher education, HE, in financial and non financial ways.– HE generates positive returns to the public

in general, as well as to the people who obtain degrees.

• HE without a degree does not boost earnings.– Although there are some benefits to

HEparticipation, even if no degree is earned, drop-outs do not usually enjoy the same financial returns that degree holders can expect.

http://www.africaneconomicoutlook.org/en/

Better integration of education and vaulue chains needed

The BIG picture

• We are in the beginning (of the beginning) – example: mobile technology

Image: O3b Networks

Google's Project Loon uses big networked air balloons to fill internet black holes

Google to launch 180 satellites in $1bn plan to cover the unwired

Several initiatives for covering the unwired underway

African Undersea Cables

Picture updatedMay 2014

http://manypossibilities.net/african-undersea-cables/

We are in the beginning of the

beginning

The way ahead

• Senior management in education needs to innovate from within, put faculty in lead, 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.

Two policy forum planned, Future directions for ODL:

20 November 2014: Open EducationKey issues in policy for governments and senior management in higher education

High Level Policy Forum 17 October 2015: Open Education: Key issues and policy advices for governments and senior management in higher education

Interventions, from UNESCO, ICDE and stakeholders from organisations, public and private sector

an old African proverb

"If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."

Thank youtitlestad@icde.org

www.icde.org