Author: António Moreira Teixeira President of European Distance and E-Learning Network.

1. António Moreira Teixeira
President
How Openness and Collaboration are
Redesigning the Global Education Landscape
The critical role of professional networks
How Openness and Collaboration are Redesigning the Global Education Landscape: The critical role of professional networks
by António Moreira Teixeira is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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International conference Open Professional Collaboration
Kaunas 5th
November2015

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3. NEWGOALS FORTHE MILLENNIUM
“How can we better understand the complexity of the world around us? How
are the problems of our world interconnected, and what does that imply for
their solution?
(…) The new vision of Education for Sustainable Development places
education at the heart of the quest to solve the problems threatening our
future. Education – in all its forms and at all levels – is seen not only as an
end in itself but also as one of the most powerful instruments forbringing
about the changes required to achieve sustainable development.”
Koïchiro Matsuura
Former Director-General, UNESCO

4. We need to implement more sustainable educational processes.
This implies that we are able to:
Apply an holistic approach
Focus on widening participation and outreach
Focus on cultural transformation
Design more scalable formats
Provide more personalized services
Be more flexible and adjustable to context
Be more rapid in implementing change
Manage to reduce costs
 Manage to continuously improve quality
THE NEWSOCIETAL CHALLENGES CALL FORNEW
SOLUTIONS

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Olivier H. Beauchesne, 2014
Map of Scientific Collaborations 2008-2012
(based on Scopus database of published papers)

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Virtual Mobility

11. The new ODeL Practice focus not only on the impact
of Networking and Transparency, but also Scalability

12. Scheme by Cristobal Cobo
(EDEN RW8, Oxford, October 2014)
We should shift fromContent-centred to Context-centred processes

13. FROMRESOURCES TOSUSTAINABLE PRACTICES
Beyond access to
open learning architectures,
the focus of open education
is now on understanding
learning as a contextual process
which can be built and continuously rebuilt
in a shared, inclusive and sustainable way.

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NEEDFORCOOPERATION TODAY
Rapidly changing landscape with many new players and new
complex challenges forthe field of ODeL
Articulated efforts to assure continuity of the common legacy
(theoretical foundations and experience)
Globalization of research and practice with consequent regional
interdependence
Scalability of practice and wide impact of new forms of delivery
(ex: MOOCs)
New regulatory frameworks (ex: quality evaluation)

15. A LARGE NETWORKOF INSTITUTIONS, ACADEMICS
ANDPRACTITIONERS
A CROSSROADOF MULTIPLE IDEAS AND
EXPERIENCES
A COMMUNITY’S EXTRAORDINARY LEGACY

16. WHAT SHOULDBE THE ROLE OF PROFESSIONAL
NETWORKS?
Promote innovation, by influencing the adoption of policies, legislation and
regulation which facilitates the development of innovative educational practices.
Support the development of innovation, by facilitating real time access to
relevant information and data and allowing sharing of resources and costs.
Recognize and validate innovation by speeding up external validation and assuring
the establishment of high quality international standards.
Assure the sustainability of the innovation process, allowing large scale sharing
of innovative experiences and by that facilitating its application in multiple contexts.
Increment the duration of innovation, by preserving the legacy of shared
knowledge and experience accumulated by the academic and professional community.

17. KEY INITIATIVES FORSUPPORTING, VALIDATING,
DISSEMINATING
ANDRECOGNIZING INNOVATION
Policy, research, quality and dissemination
EDEN has cooperated with 200+ institutions in European projects
EDEN Conferences
Majoracademic and professional events in Europe
European Journal of Open, Distance and E-learning (EURODL)
Most prestigious European Journal on open, distance education and eLearning
EDEN Fellow and SeniorFellow Awards /Fellows ThinkTank
Most important recognition of professional merit in Europe
and first European ThinkTankon ODeL
NAPMembers Area
Largest European academic and professional networkin ODeL

18. So Much More than
an Association!

19. Antonio.Teixeira@uab.pt
www.eden-online.org/nap_elgg/pg/profile/teixeira
Ačiū !
ThankYou Very Much!
How Openness and Collaboration are Redesigning the Global Education Landscape: The critical role of professional networks
by António Moreira Teixeira is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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