My presentation at the 4th Teacher Subject Forum 2020 15-16 December 2020, hosted by Ministry of Higher Education United Arab Emirates, Dubai

1. Professor, Dr. Ebba Ossiannilsson
Sweden
ICDE EC, EDEN EC
ICDE OER Advocacy Committe, ICDE
Ambassador for the global advocacy
of OER, ICDE Quality Network
Swedish Association for Distance
Education
4th Teacher Subject Forum 2020
15-16 December 2020
Leadership for resilient education

5. How were teaching
and learning affected
by the disruptions
and how was this
mitigated by the
implemented
measures, across and
within countries?

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10. • New roles are emerging for those who can translate how the engineering and design of
new technologies and applications affects our political, economic, social and cultural worlds;
• Education in this field and notions of digital literacy must expand to reflect this need;
• In secondary schools and universities, it will be important to teach the building blocks of
digital literacy, from basic computing concepts to how platforms are

11. Singer’s point is that a new “human-
centred” approach toward technology can
and should start with what we learn in our
schools and universities.
What could that education look like and
how do we get there? In this excerpt from
my recently released book, Beyond the
Valley, I argue for two major interventions:
• changing technology education to tie
it more closely to political, economic,
cultural, and humanist thinking;
• opening up what we mean by design
and digital literacy and how we teach
this

13. 1. Fostering the development of a high-
performing digital education ecosystem
This requires:
•infrastructure, connectivity and digital
equipment
•effective digital capacity planning and
development, including up-to-date
organisational capabilities
•digitally competent and confident teachers
and education and training staff
•high-quality learning content, user-friendly
tools and secure platforms which respect
privacy and ethical standards
2. Enhancing digital skills and competences for
the digital transformation
This needs:
•basic digital skills and competences from an
early age
• digital literacy, including fighting
disinformation
• computing education
• good knowledge and understanding of data-
intensive technologies, such as artificial
intelligence
•advanced digital skills which produce more digita
specialists and also ensure that girls and young
women are equally represented in digital studies
and careers
The new Action Plan has two strategic priorities

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19. it is crucial to support the upskilling of their
workforce towards new and higher-skilled roles, as
competition for talent will become even fiercer in
the coming years. For workers, there is a need to
take personal responsibility for their learning
trajectory and embrace the concept of lifelong
learning. How can education and training providers
keep pace with this unprecedented level of change?
How does a future-proof curriculum look like?
While there are already examples of effective
approaches towards adapting engineering training
to the needs of Industry 4.0, numerous education
and training providers only now begin to consider
the necessary development. Reshaping curricula is
a considerable challenge, implying complex
decision-making processes and various
administrative obstacles. Many departments and
faculties are still dominated by traditional
Skills for industry curriculum guidelines 4.0

31. How to create a resilience ranking
So what could a resilience ranking framework look like for higher education?
First, there should be a set of principles or criteria and accompanying metrics,
including complementary quantitative and qualitative metrics. Not for a second
should this task be underestimated in terms of data availability, measurement
and methodology and it should be emphasised that the kinds of things we are
putting forward are highly complex.
The key criteria or principles for resilience could centre on: diversification,
flexibility and innovation, risk, values, value maintenance, and
community outreach. The existing rankings schema touch, in part, on some of
these criteria, but largely through the lens of established parameters such as
papers, citations and resourcing, for instance, staff-student ratio.

32. The outlook for the future of
colleges and universities is
uncertain. Financial stresses,
changing student
populations, and rapidly
developing technologies all
pose significant challenges
to the nation's colleges and
universities. In Academia
Next, futurist and higher
education expert Bryan
Alexander addresses these
evolving trends to better
understand higher education's
next generation.

33. My Footprints
www.i4quality.se
Ebba.Ossiannilsson@gmail.com
info@i4quality.se
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