What issues and possible pathways for higher education institutions to consider when moving faster into the digital age? Do you want to be a forerunner in opening up education or don´t you care? Increased cooperation or more competition? Can you pay your way to quality education? MOOCing your way or will that lead you to the parking slot? Could you let your faculty lead? To change on the ground is different from changing the slides. 5 executives took their positions at EDUCA 2013.

1. Directions and challenges when post-secondary education
moves into MOOC territory:
What should be the institutional
strategies in the digital learning age?
Online EDUCA
Berlin, 5 December 2013
Gard Titlestad
Secretary General
International Council For Open and Distance
Education, ICDE

2. • The leading global membership organization for open, distance and online
education
• An NGO official partner of UNESCO, and shares that agency’s key aim – the
attainment of quality education for all
• ICDE believes that in pursuing education as a universal right, the needs of the
learner must be central.
• Members in all regions of the world
25 Years Support
From Norway

3. Trends,
within
the framwork of globalisation
and internationalisation
US quadruppling
Cost
Southern Europe….
Developing economies
Automation
Robots
Sensors
Technology
2020 – 80% connected
Open Research
Internet of things
Open Data
OER
eScience
eInfrrastructures
Access
Open Innovation
Flexibility
HE needs – 1 U a week
Globalisation
Societal needs
Enabling economic growth
Demographics
Open Access
Open
knowledge
Students needs
and
expectations
Employability
Lifelong
ICT Habitus

5. 400
Mill. students
2007 - 2030
EU/OECD projections
the need for HE
by 2030: 400 mill.
320
2030
2044

6. How can countries best produce a highly-qualified young labour force?
OECD, Education Indicators in Focus – October 2013.

7. PISA and expenses per student
Aftenposten, Norway, 4 December 2013

8. Wie bieden ze aan?
Coursera ”Learning Hubs”

9. Dr Qian Tang, Assistant Director-General for Education, UNESCO (8/11/2013).
It is necessary to repeat the confirmation of fundamental principles:
• Education is
– A fundamental human rights
– A public good
– A basis for man's attainment of peace, sustainable
development, gender equality and responsible global citizenship
– A key factor in reducing inequality and poverty.
• And further: Imperative for Education for post 2015 agenda must
be:
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–
–
–
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Equitable access to education for all and at all levels
Quality of education and learning
Fairness
Gender equality
Lifelong learning

10. Message from the ICDE Standing Conference of Presidents:
• Willing to move up to the forefront and set direction:
Use High Quality Open, Distance, Online and
eLearning, MOOC and MOOP (Massive Open Online
Programs)
• Establish overview what is happening, careful
monitoring, through GlobalOHER.
• Contextual, cultural and value based approach.
• UNESCO partnership approach.
• Collaboration between institutions, associations and
key stakeholders: national, regional and global.
• Student success is the key factor.

11. Leadership for change
• Leadership is strongly needed:
– From government
– From faculty
– From institutions senior management
• Leadership to penetrate education for
reinventing and innovation in Education!

12. Speakers
• Mansoor Al Awar, Vice Chancellor, Hamdan Bin
Mohammed e-University, United Arab Emirates
– An Innovative Solution for the 21st Century Learning
• Nicholas Watson, Director, Corporate and Learning
Environments (CLE), The Open University, UK
– Leadership for Change in a Time of Openness: New Models of
Institutional Engagement
• Marta Aymerich, Vice President for Strategic Planning and
Research, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
– Opening Up Education in an Online University: Experiences and
Future Challenges
• John Ebersole, President, Excelsior College, USA
• Will Swann, President, European Association of Distance
Teaching Universities (EADTU), The Netherlands

13. Thank you!
titlestad@icde.org
www.icde.org