This document discusses the transformation of education, labor markets, and society through flexible learning facilitated by technology. It notes the rapid expansion of higher education enrollment globally, only made possible through flexible learning models. Educational resources like open educational resources act as catalysts for innovation and change. The digital economy is moving fastest in areas like artificial intelligence, virtual/augmented realities, and new computing technologies. These changes usher in a new era of knowledge-intensive economies. International organizations like UNESCO and ICDE are working to promote inclusive, flexible, quality education through partnerships and initiatives focused on openness, transparency, and good governance.
Flexible learning: transforming education, labour market and society
1. Flexible learning: transforming
education, labour market and society
International outlook on learning and digitalisation
ICDE Inspiration seminar, Oslo Norway, April 26, 2017
Gard Titlestad, Secretary General
International Council for Open and Distance Education
Member of the Governing Board
6. Informal/non-formal
RAPID AND DIVERSE EXPANSION OF
HIGHER EDUCATION ENROLMENT
100 mill
200 mill
2000 2015 2030
435 mill
Only possible facilitated by technology and flexible learning
12. Add now (for education):
Artificial intelligence,
cognitive technologies and
robotics
Neurotechnologies
Ubiquitous presence of linked
sensors
New computing technologies
Virtual and augmented realities
13. From the information age to the connected age
From the knowledge driven to the knowledge intensive economy
The Fourth Industrial Revolution
14.
15. Where the Digital
Economy Is Moving the
Fastest
Bhaskar Chakravorti
Christopher Tunnard Ravi
Shankar Chaturvedi
FEBRUARY 19, 2015
16. Where the Digital
Economy Is Moving the
Fastest
Bhaskar Chakravorti
Christopher Tunnard Ravi
Shankar Chaturvedi
FEBRUARY 19, 2015
25 April 2017
18. • On 25 September 2015, the United Nations
General Assembly formally adopted the
universal, integrated and transformative 2030
Agenda for Sustainable Development, along
with a set of 17 Sustainable Development
Goals and 169 associated targets.
19.
20. Main principles
• Education is a fundamental human right and
an enabling right.
• Education is a public good, of which the state
is the duty bearer.
• Gender equality is inextricably linked to the
right to education for all.
21. Target 3, point 43.:
A well-established, properly-
regulated tertiary education system
supported by technology, Open
Educational Resources (OERs) and
distance education modalities can
increase access, equity, quality and
relevance, and narrow the gap
between what is taught at tertiary
education institutions and what
economies and societies demand.
The provision of tertiary education
should be progressively free, in line
with existing international
agreements.
22. Open, Transparent,
Accountable and focus
on Good Governance
Support
From
Norway
29 years
UNESCO
Partner
>50 years
SINCE 1938
To be the global facilitator for inclusive, flexible, quality learning and teaching in the digital age.
23. UNESCO INITIATIVE FOR HIGHER EDUCATION
Regional
conferences on
quality
assurance
International
conference on
quality
assurance
Global
convention on
recognition of
qualifications
2017 2018 2019 2020
Global Congress
on higher
education
Core partners Quality: ICDE, CoL and INQAAHE
EXAMPLE PARTNERSHIP
24. AccessBut can we talk about access without
addressing the opportunity for
student success?
25. To be the global facilitator for inclusive, flexible, quality learning and teaching in the digital age.
ICDE Global Quality Network
• Observe and analyse
• Contribute to UNESCO events and reports
• Suggest policies and actions
• Contribute to state of the art quality online, open, flexible
and technology enhanced learning
• Suggest quality guidelines
?
26. UNESCO
Regional
conferences on
quality
assurance
• Global Doctoral Consortium
• Models for technology enhanced education
• Global Quality Network
Analysis
Reports
Insight briefs
Actions, events and
communities
ICDE Quality initiative
Region Focal Point on Quality
Arab region Dr. Souma Alhaj Ali
HBMSU (Hamdan Bin
Mohammed Smart University)
United Arab Emirates
27. To be the global facilitator for inclusive, flexible, quality learning and teaching in the digital age.
ICDE Chairs in OER
SINCE 1938• Lead high impact events that give profile to ICDE.
• Help shape proposals for new related projects aimed at
attracting funding.
• Demonstrate thought leadership through publications,
videos and teaching by highlighting the link to ICDE and
their position as ICDE Chairs in OER.
• Provide ICDE with advice on policy and other areas.
• Challenge the thinking about the future.
28. ICDE Global Doctoral Consortium
To be the global facilitator for inclusive, flexible, quality learning and teaching in the digital age.
29.
30. To be the global facilitator for inclusive, flexible, quality learning and teaching in the digital age.
ICDE Networks in the pipeline
• Cluster for Learning Analytics
• Advocacy for OER
• Collaborative Online International
Learning
• Exchange of people between instituitons
32. Good Teachers and Rich Content
Open up for
great learning
experience
33. ICDE International Conference
Lifelong Learning,
Lillehammer February 11. – 13. 2019
1.Emerging Pedagogies and Designs for
Online Learning
2.Expanding Access, Openness and
Flexibility
3.Changing Models of Assessment
4.New Delivery Tools and Resources for
Learning
5.Re-designed Institutional Business
Models
34. • Woman in virtual glasses
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Now what?
Thanks to Martin Bean, RMIT, Australia
36. ”TOWARDS INCLUSIVE AND EQUITABLE
QUALITY EDUCATION AND LIFELONG
LEARNING FOR ALL”
Sustainable Development Goal 4: Education 2030
THANK YOU!
titlestad@icde.org
www.icde.org
Notes de l'éditeur
• What before was in the margins, open and distance learning, is now going mainstream in large parts of the world, materialised as online, blended, open, flexible, technology enhanced and e-Learning. Convergence is here, followed by increasing competition (and collaboration) and diversity in higher education. While this is the main trend, the situation in some regions will provide a different picture, e.g. in parts of the south.
• What before was in the margins, open and distance learning, is now going mainstream in large parts of the world, materialised as online, blended, open, flexible, technology enhanced and e-Learning. Convergence is here, followed by increasing competition (and collaboration) and diversity in higher education. While this is the main trend, the situation in some regions will provide a different picture, e.g. in parts of the south.