Prof. Dr. Ulf-Daniel EhlersBaden-Wurttemberg Cooperative State University

European Association for Institutes of Higher Education

Global Quality Challengesfor Quality in Open Online

Learning

EDEN Network of Academic Professionals Webinar

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LearningSociety

Digitali-sation

DisassociationSelforganisation

LifelongLearningPermeabilitySequentiality

Individualisation/Diversity

Higher-Edu-cation

Will the digital turn be a technical or aneductaional revolution?

How to deal with openess?

How to create a suitable blend of institutional forms?

How to achieve permeability?

A Thought Experiment...

A school beginner in September 2016...• ... finishes 2020 primary school• ... gradutaes from high school in 2028• ... receives his bachelor degree in 2031 • ... and his Master in 2033 • ...starts to work...

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An Agenda ofQuality Challenges in Higher Education

1. Innovation & Employability(The Competence Quest)

2. Access & Inclusion3. Individualisation & Diversity4. Flexibilisation5. Digitalisation

Higher EducationCompetence describe the ability to act self-organised, successfully in an unknown, complex future.

Knowing-in-ActionReflection-in-Action

Reflection on Reflection-in-Action

Higher Education as Reflection-Laboratory

(Schön 1983, 1986)

Implicit Action-Knowledge

Ad-Hoc Strategies

Development of ind. Action Theories

Professionality

Competence Responsibility

Action Adequacy

Abilities Will

Knowledge Apply

Information Connect (Wildt 2006)

(Erpenbeck 2005)

Teaching Strategies

Transfer Tutor/in Coach

Facts(„know-that“)

Procedures(„know-how“)

Social Practices(„knowing-in-action“)

Transmission Dialogue Interaction

Knowledge, Remenbering Doing, Problemsolving Reflective Action, innovation

Teaching I Teaching II Teaching III

Steering Enabling

(Baumgartner 2004)

(Reinmann 2005)

An Agenda ofQuality Challenges in Higher Education

1. Innovation & Employability(The Competence Quest)

2. Access & Inclusion3. Individualisation & Diversity4. Flexibilisation5. Digitalisation

Anno 1088

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Exclusivelyfor the chosen few...

Anno 1965

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Industrialisation,Massification, Standardisation

Anno 2004

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Postmodern, Individualised, Disaggregated

The career of an idea in higherEducation ...

Where does that leave us?

• The traditional model: Exclusively for fewchosen.

• The modern (massification) model: Standard model for masses.

• The post-modern model: Individualised anddiversified HE (Rip and Mix Approach/ Patchwork)

An Agenda ofQuality Challenges in Higher Education

1. Innovation & Employability(The Competence Quest)

2. Access & Inclusion3. Individualisation & Diversity4. Flexibilisation5. Digitalisation

1. Individualized Learning: Drivers and Larger Context

Modernization of the World of Work

Flexibilisation of the World of Education

Lifelong Learning

2. Permeability: Higher Education Blend

Post-Secondary Education STRUCTURE• Vocational Education and Training• Higher Education• Lifelong Learning• Formal• Informal

3. Extended Recognition PracticeRecognition of Programs of HEIs

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Provision Learning

ResourcesAssessment Certification

of LO

«Traditional» Educational Provision

Provision Learning

ResourcesAssessment Certification

of LO

Unbundled Educational Provision

«Unbundled»

edX + PearsonUnis Unis

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Recognition of Open Learning?

Brandnew Initiatives...

MicrodegreesNanodegrees

(MicroHE & OEPass)

An Agenda ofQuality Challenges in Higher Education

1. Innovation & Employability(The Competence Quest)

2. Access & Inclusion3. Individualisation & Diversity4. Flexibilisation5. Digitalisation

(Digital) Import of Curriculum

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Flexible Pathways/ Curricula

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An Agenda ofQuality Challenges in Higher Education

1. Innovation & Employability(The Competence Quest)

2. Access & Inclusion3. Individualisation & Diversity4. Flexibilisation5. Digitalisation

Digital

What is a convincing digital agenda for eductaional institutions?

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Everywhere

What do we do in the classroom?

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Learning Community

Learner generated

Open

The Digital Myth

With E-Learning andavailability of

(OE)resourceslearning will improve!

Open Education Practice

LearningSociety

Digitali-sation

DisassociationSelforganisation

LifelongLearningPermeabilitySequentiality

Individualisation/Diversity

Higher-Edu-cation

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