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Professor Asha KanwarPresident & CEO, Commonwealth of Learning
Growing Capacities for Sustainable distance elearning provision
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What is sustainable distance and elearning?
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Distance and eLearning can
Enhance access and equity by reducing costs
Improve quality by providing world class resources
Provide flexible learning opportunities
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Growing Capacitie
s
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Learning for Development
Development: – as freedom
Freedom:– ‘to be and to do’
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Capability approach: A. Sen
From outputs to outcomesFrom capacity to capabilityFrom skills or ‘functionings’ to the ability of exercise freedom
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Learning develops Capability for
Personal autonomy/independence of thought
Paid WorkSocial relations/identity Walker, 2006; qtd in A Tait, 2011
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‘Learning for Sustainable Development’
• Economic growth• Social inclusion• Environmental
conservation
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Sustainable Development Goals
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Goal 4
Quality education leading to effective learning outcomes
Skills for employment and entrepreneurship
Qualified teachers
Knowledge and skills for peace and global citizenship
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‘Learning for Sustainable Development’
• Economic growth• Social inclusion• Environmental
conservation
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Impact – 150% increase in income
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Increasing food security
Every $1 invested in learning, facilitation and networking resulted in $9 worth of income and assets in India.
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Empowering learners
“I left school in year 5 when I got married at the age of 12. I am now 22 and have 3 children. I went back to school so that I could help my children with their schoolwork.”
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Classroom without walls
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VUSSC Member States
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First Graduation
First cohort graduate after following Diploma in Sustainable Agriculture, Samoa
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WHAT CAN DISTANCE AND
ELEARNING INSTITUTIONS
DO?
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Accelerate progress towards achieving Sustainable Development Goals?
What can we learn from OER and MOOCs to become more sustainable?
Should Sustainable Distance and elearning
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OER: Open Universities
Now
Then
Industrial model
InstitutionalTeams
Learner as consumer
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MOOCs: Open Universities
Then
National or provincial jurisdiction
Limited interaction at study centres
Print+ (audio, video, online)
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Revisit the Philosophy of ‘Open-ness’
Open as to people
Open as to places
Open as to methods
Open as to ideas
Lord Crowther
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Sustainable Distance and eLearning
Is deployed for sustainable development
Shifts the emphasis from capacity to capability
Empowers teachers and learners
Informal learning
Formal learningNon-
formal learning
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