The importance of open, distance, flexible and online education, including e-learning in educational policy

Gard Titlestad, Secretary GeneralInternational Council for Open and Distance Education

Det Digitale VUCVUC Årsmøde 7. – 8. April, Hotel Nyborg Strand, Danmark

Disposisjon• Introduksjon• Hva er trendene for fremtidens utdanning?

– Behov– Trender online og open– Drivere for tilgang til læring

• Hvor står Norden i kunnskapsutfordringen?– Konkurranseevne og innovasjon– Human kapital– Nettverk og teknologiutnyttelse

• Hva med Det Digitale VUC? – Online– Open – Open Education Resources– Learning Analytics

• To be the leading global network for making quality learning accessible throughout the world using online, open, distance and flexible education.

• To connect institutions, organisations and professionals from across the globe so that they can share ideas, resources and best practices, partner on major projects and advocate together.

• To be the official partner of UNESCO, that shares that agency’s key aim inclusive and equitable quality education and lifelong learning for all.

• ICDE believes that in pursuing education as a universal right, the needs of the learner must be central.

• To organize members in all regions of the world – global balance.

SupportFrom

Norway25 years

Why is ICDE here?

UNESCO Partner50 years

Platinum open access

ONLINE, OPEN, FLEXIBLE AND TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED HIGHER AND ADULT EDUCATION

ICDE Focus

The Gaps

EducationAverage years of education

The world Africa south of SaharaYears of education West-Europe

This is ourChallenge

Source: Aftenposten/OECD. How Was Life? Shows long-term progress in key areas of well-being

Teachers are a key

20442030

320

4002007 - 2030

Mill. students

EU/OECD projections the need for HEby 2030: 410 mill.

This is our GlobalChallenge

Cannot be solved by bricks and mortar

Combine Bricks and Clicks

+ 300 mill for MOOCs?Informell – uformell utdanning

”TOWARDS INCLUSIVE AND EQUITABLE QUALITY EDUCATION AND LIFELONG LEARNING FOR ALL”SEIZE DIGITAL OPPORTUNITIES, LEAD EDUCATION TRANSFORMATION

Sustainable Development Goal 4 Education 2030

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.

Framework for Action Education 2030:

November 2015

endringGlobalisering

TeknologiDemografi

From the information age to the connected age

From the knowledge driven to the knowledge intensive economy

Den 4. Industrielle Revolusjon

The BIG Picture• Online, Open and Flexible Education is steadily increasing all

over the world

IndiaSweden

Russia

South America

The US

AfricaAustralia

China

Giving birth to a new learning landscape

Creative Commons

The BIG picture• Online, Open and Flexible and on Campus Learning are

converging => Blended

BlendedOnlineCampus

• And as a result – an even more diverse educational landscape……

Hvorfor?

Openknowledge

Societal needs

Technology

Students needs and

expectations

OERCost

Trends, within the framwork of globalisation and internationalisation

HE needs – 1 U a week

Demographics

Globalisation

Enabling economic growth

Access

Open Access

eInfrastructureseScience

Automation

Robots Sensors

2020 – 80% connectedInternet of things Open Research

Open Data

Open Innovation

US quadruppling

Southern Europe….

Developing economies

ICT Habitus

Flexibility

Employability

Lifelong

Disruptive Innovations

Education is on the brink of a revolution. Collaborating on learning-related work across disciplines through an integrated research agenda could yield powerful advances in optimizing online learning experiences. MIT Online Education Policy Initiative.

April 2016.

And down along the road..........

http://news.mit.edu/2016/mit-releases-online-education-policy-initiative-report-0401

Endring er nåKomparative fortrinn:• Gamle forvitrer• Nye må etableres• Gode må forsterkes

Kan utdanning og teknologistøttet

læring bli et fremtidig

komparativt fortrinn?

Sverige, Skandinavia, Norden:

I ledelsen når det gjelder utbredelse og bruk.

Midt i flokken (OECD) når det gjelder verdiøkende anvendelse

Where the Digital Economy Is Moving the FastestBhaskar Chakravorti Christopher Tunnard Ravi Shankar Chaturvedi FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Hvilke utvikling kan

Det Digitale VUC være særlig oppmerksom på?

How is Online learning enabling change?

• 1. ACCESS TO IDEAS , KNOWLEDGE AND INFORMATION• 2. COMMUNITY OF LEARNERS• 3. MOBILE MENTORING• 4. ADAPTIVE CURRICULUM• 5. DIFFERENTIATED TEACHING

Change in the design of college and university programs and their delivery:

– MORE JUST-IN-TIME AND ON DEMAND LEARNING– MORE CREDIT TRANSFER AND CREDIT RECOGNITION– MORE USE OF ADJUNCT FACULTY AND PEER NETWORKS

http://teachonline.ca/trends-directions/evolving-pedagogy/5-ways-online-learning-enabling-change-post-secondary-education

Contact North, Canada

Policy fora, influencing the future:

20 November 2014: Open EducationKey issues in policy for governments and senior management in higher education

ICDE High Level Policy Forum 17 October 2015: “Higher education for the sustainable future we want. The way ahead for Online, Open and Flexible learning: Opportunities and Actions.”In partership with UNESCO, CoL and OEC

Interventions, from UNESCO, ICDE and key experts and senior management:The Bali Message

Global High Level Forum in Paris9 – 11 JUNE 2015:Online, open and flexible higher education for the future we wantUNESCO – in partnership with ICDE

Policy fora, influencing the future:

20 November 2014: Open EducationKey issues in policy for governments and senior management in higher education

ICDE High Level Policy Forum 17 October 2015: “Higher education for the sustainable future we want. The way ahead for Online, Open and Flexible learning: Opportunities and Actions.”In partership with UNESCO, CoL and OEC

Interventions, from UNESCO, ICDE and key experts and senior management:The Bali Message

Global High Level Forum in Paris9 – 11 JUNE 2015:Online, open and flexible higher education for the future we wantUNESCO – in partnership with ICDE

SURVEY RESULTSWhat We Heard – Perspectives and

Experiences from 105 Educational Leaders from 53 Countries

June 2015

Open Educational Resources

“... are teaching, learning and research materials in any medium that reside in the public domain and have been

released under an open licence that permits access, use, repurposing, reuse and redistribution by others with

no or limited restrictions.” (UNESCO 2011)

1.Retain – i.e. no digital rights management restrictions (DRM), the content is yours to keep, whether you’re the author, instructor or student.2.Reuse – you are free to use materials in a wide variety of ways without expressly asking permission of the copyright holder.3.Revise – as an educator, you can adapt, adjust, or modify the content to suit specific purposes and make the materials more relevant to your students. This means making it available in a number of different formats and including source files, where possible.4.Remix – you or your students can pull together a number of different resources to create something new.5.Redistribute – you are free to share with others, so they can reuse, remix, improve upon, correct, review or otherwise enjoy your work.

David Wiley

From the UNESCO OER Declaration

• Foster awareness and use of OER• Encourage the development and adaptation of

OER in a variety of languages and cultural contexts• Encourage the open licensing of educational

materials produced with public funds.ICDE work shouder to shoulder with UNESCO and other stakeholders to have this implementet

More BC Open Textbook StatsAs of December 4, 2015 As of March 17, 2016

General StatsStudent Savings$985,700- 1,214,092Number of participating institutions 24 (19 Public, 5 Private)

Number of students affected 9,857 12,540Number of textbooks on open 137http://open.bccampus.ca/2015/09/10/more-bc-open-textbook-stats/

http://open.bccampus.ca/about-2/

http://open.bccampus.ca

$1,254,000 – $1,604,425

https://campustechnology.com/articles/2015/11/10/major-study-finds-oer-students-do-just-as-well-or-better.aspx

The Future is NearBut not as near as you hoype

In Norway, one of the most connected countries in the world, if a professor want to use OER in public health for nurses - she will find nothing or very few open resources, and no organized connected, collaborative opportunities.

If the same professor in France engaged, she would find more than 200 licensed education resources regarding public health for nurses, all linked to the higher education curricula. In fact, a student in France can use collaborative free quality assured educational material for her grades, e.g. bachelor and master within the equational system, all made possible and digitalized by collaborative thematic universities in a connected French educational system.

Hvor er den fremste nordiske utdannelse?

http://www.unisim.edu.sg/Pages/UniSIM.aspx

• Learning Analytics can be the base for achievements in several fields;– Adapted and personalized learning– Improved completion and retention rates– Improved student success– Quality learning in general– (Possibly) Better and more focused deployment

and management of resources

• “Learning Analytics is the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of data about learners and their contexts, for purposes of understanding and optimising learning and the environments in which it occurs”

• Wikipedia, March 2016.

Mitt FitBit

Learning analyticsTeknisk infrastruktur

https://www.surf.nl/en/knowledge-base/2016/whitepaper-how-data-can-improve-the-quality-of-higher-education.html

Mars 2016

Hvor er vi nu?

”TOWARDS INCLUSIVE AND EQUITABLE QUALITY EDUCATION AND LIFELONG LEARNING FOR ALL”

Sustainable Development Goal 4: Education 2030

THANK YOUtitlestad@icde.org

www.icde.org

Seize digital opportunities, lead education transformation