Gard Titlestad, Secretary GeneralInternational Council for Open and Distance Education

Member of UNESCO IITE Governing Board

Online, open, flexible and technology enhanced education

ICDE initiatives relevant for SEAMEO?

• To be the leading global network for making quality learning accessible throughout the world using online, open, distance and flexible education.

• To connect institutions, organisations and professionals from across the globe so that they can share ideas, resources and best practices, partner on major projects and advocate together.

• To be the official partner of UNESCO, that shares that agency’s key aim inclusive and equitable quality education and lifelong learning for all.

• ICDE believes that in pursuing education as a universal right, the needs of the learner must be central.

• To organize members in all regions of the world – global balance.

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Why is ICDE here?

UNESCO Partner

>50 years

Platinum open access

ICDE 1938

Supporting future leaders, future quality Activities in all regions

ICDE: Transparent,Accountable and focus Good Governance for Internationalisation

ICDE Presidents Summit

Adaptive learning and learning analytics: possible consequences for leadership and management

Nancy, France – May 2017

Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) and Vice-President, RMIT, Australia

Open, Transparent,Accountable and focus om Good Governance

President:

The BIG Picture• Online, Open and Flexible Education is steadily increasing all

over the world

IndiaSweden

Russia

South America

The US

AfricaAustralia

China

And it is NOT the MOOCsbut online, open, flexible and technology enhanced learning

moocs as a part of it

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/01/08/survey-finds-online-enrollments-slow-continue-grow

NB! MOOCs: (mostly) nonformal and informal HE

Giving birth to a new learning landscape

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ICDE towards 2020• Selected initiatives which might have

interest for SEAMEO

Target 3, point 43.:A well-established, properly-regulated tertiary education system supported by technology, Open Educational Resources (OERs) and distance education modalities can increase access, equity, quality and relevance, and narrow the gap between what is taught at tertiary education institutions and what economies and societies demand. The provision of tertiary education should be progressively free, in line with existing international agreements.

Framework for Action Education 2030:

November 2015

Selected initiatives

• The UNESCO led imitative for Quality Enhancement in Higher Education, regional events 2017-18 and international conference 2018

• ICDE Global Quality Network• Models for Online, open, flexible and technology

enhanced higher education • Global Doctoral Consortium• R&D Learning Analytics, adaptive learning• Global Online Library for Higher Education

The quality higher education agenda Led by UNESCO

• The SDGs• SDG 4

• Global and regional conventions

• Quality enhancement initiative

• Higher education towards 2030

• 5 direct for education• Education 2030: Towards inclusive and

equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all

• Preparation of a GLobal Convention on the Recognition of Higher Education Qualifications – to be decided 2019 (UNESCO)

• Quality enhancement: Achieving sustainable development through a diverse provision of higher education, regional meetings and studies leading up to a global conference issuing guidance 2018 (UNESCO, INQAAHE, ICDE and COL)

• Global higher education Conference 2020.

”TOWARDS INCLUSIVE AND EQUITABLE QUALITY EDUCATION AND LIFELONG LEARNING FOR ALL”

Sustainable Development Goal 4: Education 2030

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