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Isabelle TURMAINE International Association of Universities
WLS 2014 – 16 April 2014
Higher Education Pathways to Literate Worlds
Purpose of the presentation _____________________________
To share insights of IAU’s project on higher
education’s role and place in the nearly ending UN Education For All initiative
To illustrate higher education’s involvement in literacy issues
To stress the importance of a stand-alone global education agenda
To advocate for a digital literacy for all goal
In 20 mns… Retaining your attention, just before lunch
Managing to recruit new champions
Plan of the presentation _________________________
Quick word on the IAU The IAU Project: HEEFA Today’s context Education/ Development agendas Changes impacting education
Digital literacy Higher education’s role in reaching digital literacy for
all Questions
International Association of Universities __________________________________________ Created 1950, under the auspices of UNESCO Over 600 Member institutions, 30 Association of HEIs,
120 countries represented International Board of 20 people, President 2013-
2016: Prof. Dzulkifly Abdul Razak, Malaysia General Conference every 4 years (2016: Thailand),
annual international conference (2015: Siena, Italy), bi-annual global meeting of university associations (2015: Accra, Ghana)
Main sectors of activities: internationalisation, sustainable development; ethics, information on HE worldwide, ICTs, EFA
Education for All (EFA) Expand early childhood care and education Provide free and compulsory primary education for all Promote learning and life skills for young people and adults Increase adult literacy by 50 per cent Achieve gender parity by 2005, gender equality by 2015 Improve the quality of education
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
8 Goals: Eradicate extreme poverty; Reduce child mortality; Improve maternal health; Combat HIV/Aids, malaria and other diseases; Ensure environmental sustainability; Global partnership for development, and:
IAU HEEFA Project ____________ Better involve HE in the UN EFA initiative by: Capacity building Leaflet Three-step collaborative workshop (Mexico, Burkina Faso,
Nepal, Kenya, India) Community building Reference Group, chaired by Prof. Olive Mugenda, VC
Kenyatta University, Kenya with representatives from all regions of the world
HEEFA Portal: http://www.heefa.net Commitment building Action plans Advocacy (Conferences; Member of the CC-NGO for EFA)
Today’s context __________________
2015: End of EFA and MDGs. Real progress made but goals will not be attained
On-going drafting of new: Development Agenda (UN) « Eradicate poverty and transform economies
through sustainable development »– 12 goals, only goal 3 on education: « Provide quality education and lifelong learning » - High-Level Panel on the Post-2015 Agenda
Education Agenda (UNESCO) Overarching goal : « Ensure equitable and
inclusive quality education and lifelong learning for all by 2030 »
Today’s context (2) _________________
From information to knowledge societies Societies that are well educated, that transform
information into resources From closed to open source content Open educational resources (OER)
From limited access to education to MOOCs Massive open (but not all are adaptable and re-
usable) online courses To, possibly, elite F2F higher education vs mass
online education
Photo credits : Ferenc Isza / AFP
Impact on higher education (1) Need for more teachers (and quality teaching) Need for constant re-training (for quality teaching but
also for the constantly evolving knowledge societies)
Impact on higher education (2) Need to provide access to a growing number of
students Need for an increasingly important critical mass of
well-educated people
Greater use of technologies ___________________ To address the issues of: Costs: less public funding or at least funding that has not
proportionnally increased to match the demand and higher costs (fees) for students
Quality: increasingly rapidly evolving nature of science
and techniques and of market needs Place and time for education demand for education at all times, everywhere,
and for everyone
Emerging technologies in HE - 2013 Time-to-Adoption Horizon: One year or less Massively Open Online Courses Tablet computing
Time-to-Adoption Horizon: 2 to 3 years Games and gamification Learning analytics
Time-to-Adoption: 4 to 5 years 3-D printing Wearable technology
Digital literacy Because technological innovations are
increasingly used in HE, students, faculty, and staff must be digitally literate.
What is Digital Literacy?: The ability to use digital technology, communication tools or networks to locate, evaluate, use and create information. The ability to understand and use information in multiple formats from a wide range of sources when it is presented via computers. A person’s ability to perform tasks effectively in a digital environment... Literacy includes the ability to read and interpret media, to reproduce data and images through digital manipulation, and to evaluate and apply new knowledge gained from digital environments. Source: University Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Digital literacy (2) If the fact that today’s students are digital natives
makes the use of information technologies relatively easy;
Other aspects of digital literacy are increasing in importance at a time when higher education might be mainly provided online to: Make an informed choice of HE path and provider; Deal with distractibility and succeed in online
training; Analyse online information, its use and usability
(including copyrights), use the adequate tool, and avoid plagiarism
Know the rules for e-safety
Plea for digital literacy Because education will be more and more
provided online and at a distance, digital literacy has to be included in all education agendas and everywhere at HE level: Included in teachers’ training Specific research undertaken Outreach activities conducted to reach non-
digitalized populations Minimum level of digital literacy when accessing HE
should be sought and refreshment courses should be offered
Links to IAU projects Higher Education for Education For All (HEEFA) www.heefa.net http://www.iau-aiu.net/content/efamdgs
Open Education Resources and the Academic Librarian (launched in Accra, Ghana for the African region in September 2013)
And, in partnership with the European Agency for Development in Special Needs Education: ICT for Information Accessibility in Learning
(ICT4AL)