Opportunities from a more open and online world. Lecture at China Open University, Beijing, China. 21 February 2012
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1. Opportunities from a more open and online world Lecture at
China Open University, Beijing 21 February 2012 Gard Titlestad
Secretary General ICDE
2. Outline Introduction Global context Trends in education OER
Trends in ODL/Online learning Convergence What is on the ICDE
radar?
3. Need for education - Education For All Irina Bokova,
Director-General of UNESCO Higher education: In less than 40 years,
enrolments have increased fivefold. Globally it is estimated that
demand will expand from less than 100 million students in 2000 to
over 250 million students in 2025. Distance and online education
can help
4. People with university degrees have suffered far fewer job
losses during the global economic crisis than those who left school
without qualifications.Good education and skills are crucial to
improving a personseconomic and social prospects. OECD 2011
5. Example global challenges Sustainable development and
climate change Clean Water Population and resources Energy Green
growth Organized crime Democratization Global ethics Rich poor gap
Health Peace and conflict Status of women IT global
convergence
6. UniversitiesUniversities are increasingly faced with
societalchallenges of national, regional and globalnature: Grand
challenges Universities deliver through their three funcitons:
Education Research Innovation
7. The Knowledge Triangleneed to be strengthened to: meet with
global challenges promote economic growth, green growht deliver
high quality knowledge supply Universities Universities in the
center of the knowledge triangel
8. Mobilising the workforce: Mobication or Flexication
Education Welfare Work An opportunity for flexible and online
learning!
9. High Quality education OECD:International Student
AssessmentThe Programme for PISA(PISA ) is an internationally
standardised assessment 15-year-olds in schools.PISA assesses how
far students near the end of compulsoryeducation have acquired some
of the knowledge and skillsthat are essential for full
participation in society.In all cycles, the domains of reading,
mathematical andscientific literacy are covered not merely in terms
ofmastery of the school curriculum, but in terms ofimportant
knowledge and skills needed in adult life.
10. PISA and China What do we
know?http://www.oecd.org/document/7/0,3746,en_2649_35845621_49428807_1_1_1_1,00.htm
11. PISA Top 12Reading, Math and Sciences
12. PISA Top 12Reading, Math and Sciences
13. School failure Reducing school failure pays off for both
society and individuals. More education attainment provides better
labour market prospects and contributes to economic growth and
social progress. The highest performing education systems across
OECD countries are those that combine high quality and equity.
Overcoming School Failure: Policies that Work February 2012
14. One of five dont complete Drop outs Or Push outs (Hal
Plotkin)Distance and online education can help
15. Never Waste a Crisis The financial constraints facing the
European countries should also be seen as a major opportunity for
ODL. Morten Flate Paulsen, President, European Distance and
e-Learning Network.
16. The traditional educational system is challenged many
speakers referred worryingly to the growth of online and for-profit
providers suggests a growing concern at even the most elite
institutions that the classroom experience is not all it could
beHarvard Conference Seeks to Jolt University Teaching, February
2012
17. Traditional lecture: 10% retention after 15 minutes?
Comparison of Learning Results from Traditionally Taught Courses
and Courses Using Research-Based PedagogyA Scientific Approach To
Science Education - Technology And Institutional Change, By Carl
Wieman
18. OERIn its simplest form, the concept of OpenEducational
Resources (OER) describes anyeducational resources (including
curriculummaps, course materials, textbooks, streamingvideos,
multimedia applications, podcasts, andany other materials that have
been designed foruse in teaching and learning) that are
openlyavailable for use by educators and students,without an
accompanying need to pay royaltiesor licence fees.
www.ocwconsortium.org/
19. Educational potential Increased availability of high
quality, relevant learning materials can contribute to more
productive students and educators. The principle of allowing
adaptation of materials provides one mechanism amongst many for
constructing roles for students as active participants in
educational processes, who learn best by doing and creating, not by
passively reading and absorbing. OER has potential to build
capacity by providing institutions and educators access, at low or
no cost, to the means of production to develop their competence in
producing educational materials and carrying out the necessary
instructional design to integrate such materials into high quality
programmes of learning.A Basic Guide to Open Educational Resources,
(Butcher, Kanwar and Uvalic-Trumbic)
20. OER can fuel the Knowledge TriangleHigh quality education
Open AccessResearch based education Research based OERResource
based education Research based teaching OER Innovation in education
Innovate the learning system and institutions Knowledge supply for
innovation
21. 2012 World OER Congress 20 22 June, Paris, FranceShould all
education resources funded with public money be OERs?
22. Case: Open Educational Practice
23. The OEP Guideline Step 1: Positioning your Organization in
the OEP Map Step 2: Creating a Vision of Openness and a Strategy
for OEP in an Organization Step 3: Implementing and Promoting
OEP
24. Websites A Basic Guide to Open Educational Resources (OER)
http://www.col.org/oerBasicGuide Guidelines for Open Educational
Resources (OER) in Higher Education
http://www.col.org/oerGuidelines http://www.oer-quality.org/
25. Technology as facilitatorThe rapid development
ofinformation andcommunication technology(ICT) offers
tremendouseducational opportunities toprovide new
innovative,accessible and more affordableways of learning. Mansoor
Al Awar, Chairman, Middle East e- Learning Association.
26. WORLD INTERNET USAGE AND POPULATION STATISTICS December 31,
2011 Internet World Stats
27. BEIJING, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- China had513 million Internet
users by the endof 2011, showing that 38.3 percent ofChinese people
used the Internet, thecountrys network information centersaid
MondaySince 2006, the proportion of Internetusers to the countrys
total populationrose by an average of around 6percentage points
annually..
28. "Going the Distance:Online Education in the United States,
2011" Almost one-third of enrolments in HE in the autumn of 2010 in
the USA were online enrolments, with more than 30% of the students
taking at least one course online. Allen, E. I., Seaman, J. - Sloan
Consortium, 2011
29. Higher education, is vulnerable to disruption. Clayton M.
Christensen, professor of business administration at the Harvard
Business School.
30. Mobile technologies students become driving forces Field
studies 18 February 2012 - Beijing
31. Will elite institutions have to change or lose in
competition with Online start-ups? Case: Stanford Professor Gives
Up Teaching Position, Hopes to Reach 500,000 Students at Online
Start-Up We believe university-level education can be both high
quality and low cost. Using the economics of the Internet, weve
connected some of the greatest teachers to hundreds of thousands of
students all over the world. http://www.udacity.com/Professor David
Evans andProfessor Sebastian Thrun
32. Certificates for free online courses what impact could that
have for HEI? Case: MIT granting certificates for free online
courses. Participants will watch five- to 10-minute video
tutorials, read an e-textbook, and complete homework assignments,
virtual laboratories and two exams. At the end of the course, they
will receive a cumulative grade and a certificate from MITx.
http://mitx.mit.edu/ MITx MITs new online learning initiative
33. ConvergenceConvergence (logic), the notion that a sequence
of transformations come to thesame conclusion, no matter what order
they are performed in. (Wikipedia)Conventional, face-to-face
universities are increasinglymoving into the delivery of online
learning programs.Many conventional universities have been unable
toadopt or adapt the strategies developed by distanceteaching
organizations fast enough to ensure increasedaccess, quality, and
sustainability through the use ofteaching technology.International
Council for Open and Distance Education, GlobalTrends in Higher
Education, Adult and Distance Learning (2009).
34. Convergence The University of California has launched an
online programme as a part of its goal to become the first
top-rated American institution to award an online bachelors degree.
2011
35. Convergence The Task Force has concluded that online
learning however blended with on- or off- campus interactions,
whether delivered in the UK or overseas provides real opportunity
for UK institutions to develop responsive, engaging and interactive
provision which, if offered at scale, can deliver quality and cost-
effectiveness and meet student demands for flexible learning.The
Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) Collaborate
tocompete, Seizing the opportunity of online learning for UK higher
education, 2011
36. Convergence Distance Learning in British Universities is it
possible? Conventional campus-based universities struggle to build
and/ or expand sustainable distance learning provision. The problem
rests in an institutional lack of understanding about distance
learning pedagogy and/ or a lack of capability to make the
necessary institutional changes required to ensure that distance
learning worksHelen Lentell, University of Leicester, 2012
37. Rapid growth in online education leads to concern To help
Education Why GAO Did This Study strengthen its oversight of
distance education, the Distance educationthat is, offering
Secretary of Education courses by the Internet, video, or other
should direct FSA to forms outside the classroom has been develop a
plan on how best a growing force in postsecondary to use the new
IPEDS education and there are questions about distance education
data and quality and adequate oversight provide input to NCES on
future IPEDS survey work Research objectives: with regard to
distance (3) how the quality of distance education education is
being assessed, and (4) how Education monitors distance HIGHER
EDUCATION: Use of New Data Could Help education in its stewardship
of federal Improve Oversight of Distance Education. Report to
Congressional Requesters. 17 November 2011. GAO-12- student aid
funds. 39 United States Government Accountability Office
38. The Future College presidents predict substantial growth in
online learning: 15% say most of their current undergraduate
students have taken a class online, and 50% predict that 10 years
from now most of their students will take classes online. Nearly
two-thirds of college presidents (62%) anticipate that 10 years
from now, more than half of the textbooks used by their
undergraduate students will be entirely digital. The Digital
Revolution and Higher Education. 2011. By Kim Parker, Amanda
Lenhart and Kathleen Moore
39. Teachersand teachers education Teachers a key target group
for attention The need for teachers The teaching challenge in a
more open and online world Teachers and studentoriented teaching
The need for continued education in new methodologies Teachers and
research based education Policies and strategies to support
teachers meeting tomorrows opportunities and challenges Teachers as
the benchmark for quality education
40. What is on the radar for ICDE? Studying the regulatory
frameworks of open & distance education Promoting OER in
partnership with UNESCO Developing quality standards for ODL
Digital divide Revising & improving quality review service for
member institutions Promoting ODL - a global day of ODL in 2013?
Enhancing the role of ODL in teacher education and training
Monitoring trends in ODL and OER - statistics on ODL. Strengthening
research on ODL have an overview.ICDE will develop a new strategy
for 2013 2016 and determine key priorities andactivities including
a possibility to convene a policy event, a meeting place
forministers and policy makers, to discuss current trends in ODL,
opportunities andchallenges in a more open and online world and the
need for policies, strategiesand leadership.Next milestone: The
Standing Conference Of Presidents (SCOP) in Dubai, 12 15
November2012, hosted by HBMeU
41. ICDE 25 World Conference Tianjin, China 16th to 18th
October 2013 Host: Tianjin Open University
42. Opportunities from a moreopen and online world in the early
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