This document discusses the importance of open education as a matter of human rights and social justice. It focuses on how the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted issues with education systems, including the need for more open and sustainable approaches to ensure equal access. The pandemic disrupted education worldwide and emphasized the value of openness, as well as issues like ethics, privacy, and ensuring no one is left behind. Moving forward, education systems must promote innovative and creative solutions to enable high-quality, efficient, and personalized lifelong learning for all.

1. THE FUTURES OF
EDUCATION A
MATTER OF HUMAN
RIGHTS AND SOCIAL
JUSTICE:
TRANSFORMATION
AND SUSTAINABILITY
Professor, Dr. Ebba Ossiannilsson, ICDE,
EDEN, SIS, ISO, SADE, JSCS, Sweden

2. … is an advocate and promotes and improve open and
online learning in the context of SDG4, and Futures of
edcuation. She is on the Executive Committee both for and
ICDE and EDEN. She works as an international quality
assessor for EADTU and ICDE. Ossiannilsson chairs the ICDE
OER Advocacy Committee. She has seven everal other
missions for ICDE. She was research director for the Quality
ICDE Standards Study 2014/15, and on Blended Learning
2017. Ossiannilsson received the title EDEN Fellow 2014,
the EDEN Council of Fellows 2018 and the Open Education
Europa Fellow 2015. Ossiannilsson has nearly 20 years of
experience in her field. She is a member of the Ed Board for
several scientific journals and regularly participates as a
speaker in conferences. At the national level she VP in SADE
EBBA OSSIANNILSSON,
PROFESSOR, DR. CONSULTANT,
EXPERT, INFLUENCER AND
QUALITY ASSESSOR IN THE
FIELD OF E-LEARNING, OER,
MOOC

3. ABSTRACT
The session will focus on the futures of education, learning to become. Open education is seen as a question of human rights and social
justice. Open education and the UNESCO Recommendation on OER aim to build open and inclusive knowledge societies and to realize the UN
Sustainable Development Goals. The futures of education in a global context focuses on issues that requires increasing attention because of
the many lessons learned during the COVID -19 pandemic, including the importance of the emerging distance and sustainable distance and
online education. As the COVID -19 pandemic escalated, educators around the world were encouraged by the governments to move to online
and distance learning. However, these practices could be considered as emergency distance learning, which is totally different from planned
practices such as distance learning, online learning and their derivatives. In relation to educational processes, the interruption or rather
disruption of education has underlined the importance of openness in education and has highlighted many issues that need to be taken into
account, such as open approaches, security, ethics, privacy, the joy of learning, monitoring and evaluation methods. Not at least due to a
crises like the Covid-19 pandemic it has been obvious that there is a demand for a paradigm shift in the near future. This paradigm shift will
lead to sustainable changes. However, no shortcuts are allowed in digital transitions and distance learning. Nevertheless, the good news is
that most educational institutions are moving towards a sustainable educational ecosystem that is relevant for people, products and
processes as well as for leadership, management, infrastructure, and teh society. The lesson learned during the pandemic is that education
is much more than content, exams and delivery. It concerns not only social and emotional relationships, empathy, feelings, ethics and the joy
of learning, but also social justice, equality of access, integration, quality and lifelong learning, as emphasized by SDG4. It has become clear
that social injustice, inequality, unequal treatment and the digital divide have worsened during the pandemic, which requires unique and
targeted measures if they are to be addressed. Furthermore, learning to become need to be personal, depending to where and who the
learners are. An appropriate response requires the promotion of learning and reflection on the need to invest in innovative and creative
solutions that will enable high-quality, efficient and personal sustainable lifelong learning, to ensure that no one is left behind now and in the
future.

4. PRINCIPALS OF SOCIAL
JUSTICE
• The principles of social justice are
an essential part of effective health
promotion. There are four
interrelated principles of social
justice; equity, access, participation
and rights.

5. SOCIAL JUSTICE
• These characteristics include
race (racism), age (ageism),
gender (sexism), religion, and
sexuality (heterosexism). Social
justice issues happen on a
global scale, meaning they
affect people all over the world.
They can also take place in one
particular country or city.

6. UNESCO's Futures of Education initiative aims to
rethink education and shape the futures. The initiative is
catalyzing a global debate on how knowledge, education and
learning need to be reimagined in a world of increasing
complexity, uncertainty, and precarity.

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12. … has and will change the learning arena
and educational
from now on and for ever

13. WE HAVE TO RECALL

16. INTERNATIO
NAL
CAMPAIGNES
#opendoors
#learningneverstops #learningtogether
#onlinetogether

17. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
EMERGENCY REMOTE TEACHING
AND ONLINE LEARNING
Well-planned online learning
experiences are meaningfully
different from courses offered
online in response to a crisis
or disaster. Colleges and
universities working to
maintain instruction during
the COVID-19 pandemic
should understand those
differences when evaluating
this emergency remote
teaching.
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21. WHATS THE ROLE OF
EDUCATION
EDUCATION NEEDS TO AIM TO DO
MORE THAN TO PREAPRE YOUNG
PEOPLE FOR THE WORLD OF WORK
IT NEEDS TO EQUIP STUDENTS WITH
THE SKILLS THEY NEED TO BECOME
ACTIVE, RESPONSIBLE AND ENGAGED
CITICENS

23. OWNERSHIP

25. Ossiannilsson. E. Some Challenges for Universities in a
post Crises as Covid-19. In: D. Burgos et al. (Eds): Radical
Solutions for Education in a Crisis Context,
A. Tlili, D. Burgos, A. Tabacco. (Eds) in LNET Series

26. Topical Collection "Massive
Open Online Courses” Guest Editor

27. My Footprints
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Ebba.Ossiannilsson@gmail.com
info@i4quality.se
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