From EDEN to Earth: Technology and the Modernisation

of EU Higher Education

EDEN 2015 – Barcelona, June 10th, 2015

  Xavier PRATS MONNÉ Director-General for Education and Culture European Commission

Paradise on Earth or fad?

"Books will soon be obsolete in schools. It is possible to teach every branch of human knowledge with the motion picture".Thomas Edison, 1913

"Television won’t last more than six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.” Darryl Zanuck 20th Century Fox, 1946

Demography, globalisation and technology will transform:

The global distribution of talent

The way we teach and learn

The talent pool is changing…

… and will continue to change

A classroom in 1915…

An operating room in 1915…

… and in 2015

2015

The roles: Teacher vs researcher

The times: Degree vs lifetime subscription

The content: Books vs blended learning

Technology is deconstructing education…

Knowledge is created by flexible, collaborative networks working in unstable environments…

…but most education institutions are organised vertically, by department and discipline, and are highly regulated…

…so the main challenge is not to modernise pedagogies but public administrations.

…but the real change is in the nature of knowledge

We need to think of another type of education

High School nº 1. Xiaogan, Hubei (China) - May 2012

• A self-assessment and development tool for HEIs

• European Commission and OECD partnership, launched in November 2013

• Not a ranking or benchmarking system

• More than 600 HEIs have undertaken the self-assessment on a voluntary basis

• Workshops organised in over 15 Member States

• Policy relevance: two country reviews using HEInnovate methodology: Ireland and Poland

HEInnovate

1717

universities are included with publicly available data1,200

of 1,200 universities provided comprehensive data670

faculties/departments in 7 field-based rankings: (psychology, medicine and computer science, as physics, electrical and mechanical engineering, business studies)

1,800

study programmes in these faculties are included7,500

students completed the student satisfaction survey 85,000

80 countries have universities in U-Multirank

@UMultirank

Evidence-basedranking

• Education and Culture: http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/education_culture/index_en.htm

• Erasmus+ : http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/index_en.htm

• HEInnovate: https://heinnovate.eu/

• U-Multirank: http://www.umultirank.org/#!/home?trackType=home

• Horizon 2020: https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/

• Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions: https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en/h2020-section/marie-sklodowska-curie-actions

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