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UNESCO Chairs Conference
“The Role of Educational Information Technologies in Formation and Sustainable
Development of the Information Society”St Petersburg, 6-11 June 2010
Mariana Patru, Programme Specialist, UNESCO
Evgueni Khvilon, Senior Programme Specialist (1979-2002), UNESCO
From Local to Global - The Role of ICTs inBuilding Knowledge Societies:
A UNESCO Perspective
Outline
• Global trends and challenges• Changing landscape of and new demands on higher
education• UNESCO’s priorities in higher education, with a
focus on the role of UNESCO Chairs • International good practice and quality resources• Importance of strengthening international co-
operation
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UNESCO: Its Five Functions
Laboratory of ideas
Standard-setter
Clearing house
Capacity builder
Catalyst for international co-operation
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ICT and ODL Resources for Policy Makers and Teachers
ODL: A Viable Alternative to Conventional Education
•.
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Many countries are looking at ODL as a major strategy for expanding access, raising quality and ensuring cost-effectiveness
For governments - the main potential is to increase the capacity and cost-effectiveness of education and training systems, to reach target groups with limited access to conventional education and training, to support and enhance the quality and relevance of existing educational structures
ODL: A Viable Alternative (cont’d)
For the student/learner - ODL means increased access and flexibility as well as the combination of work and education. It may also mean a more learner-centred approach, enrichment, higher quality and new ways of interaction
For employers - ODL offers high quality and usually cost-effective professional development in the workplace; allows upgrading of skills, increased productivity and development of a new learning culture (in addition, it means sharing of costs, of training time, and increased portability of training)
Global Higher Education Landscape:
The New Globalization
Maturing era for mass higher education systems in most developed nations
Growing international adoption and convergence of higher education practices/ models
Growing international and supranational market for undergraduate students
Growing international market for faculty/research talent
Eroding institutional autonomy - growing accountability
Changing pedagogy - growing technological adoption
Declining government subsidization Global knowledge sharing and communications
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Towards digital literacy and knowledge societies
UNESCO World Report, 2005: Offers an intellectual, strategic
and ethical vision on KS Education and access to
knowledge Quality education for all – one
of the 4 key principles for the building of equitable, inclusive and participatory KS
Knowledge sharing as a development imperative
Innovative approaches to e-learning
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“Trends in Global Higher Education: Tracking an Academic Revolution”
Communication of knowledge through e-mail, blogs, wikis, and pod casts
Next stage of the ICT revolution: transform our approach to teaching and learning through distance-education programs and within walls of traditional universities
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New technologies will continue to affect all aspects of higher education
Key Trends in theNext Five Years
Within the next twelve months Mobile computing Open content
Two to three years Electronic books Simple augmented reality
Four to five years Gesture-based computing Visual data analysis
Из выступления Главы российской делегации А.В. Яковенко
Высшее образование имеет стратегическое значение для выполнения целей развития тысячелетия и Образования для всех. Обеспечение эффективной ориентации высшего образования на цели устойчивого развития.
Использование ИКТ, дистанционное обучение, развитие трансграничных услуг, создание и распространение в сети Интернет открытых многоязычных современных электронных образовательных ресурсов приобретают особое значение для повышения гибкости образовательных программ, существенного расширения мобильности как российских, так и иностранных студентов.
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Из выступления Главы российской делегации А.В.Яковенко (продолж.)
Россия выступает за последовательное продвижение к сопоставимости квалификаций и взаимному признанию результатов профессионального обучения.
В вопросе качества образования мы должны в полной мере использовать мандат ЮНЕСКО Всемирная конференция – повод подумать над необходимостью разработки и принятия на межгосударственном уровне индикаторов качества высшего образования, которые призваны закрепить приоритеты его дальнейшего развития.
..создание в Росси ‘инновационного пояса’ – технопарков и малых предприятий при вузах, позволяющих быстро разрабатывать и внедрять востребованные наукоемкие технологии, которые содействуют экономическому и социальному развитию.
Принято решение об увеличении за счет российского бюджета в 1,5 раза приема иностранных граждан в российские вузы.
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21st Century: The Emergence of New Learning Environments
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“One laptop per child”: harnessing the power of ICTs for inclusion
and development
An MIT Media Lab project
• ultra-low-cost, full-featured computer
• designed to dramatically enhance children’s primary and secondary education worldwide
• full-scale production to start in mid-2007
Powering ICT Devices Powering ICT Devices in Remote Areasin Remote Areas
Solar Laptop
Pedal Power for OLPC
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The ICT Revolution
A revolution which has triggered: a redefinition of the roles for academics (such as coaches and
mentors rather than content experts) a new business model for universities faced with competitive forces
(e.g. partnerships with other content providers - publishers and media companies - in the textbook market)
the convergence of various communication devices at an affordable cost (m-learning)
openness, sharing, participation and collaboration at an unprecedented scale (open source, open content, open educational resources)
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2009 World Conference on Higher Education: What Role for ICTs?
A few key messages in this regard:o Member States should support the fuller integration of ICTs and
promote ODL to meet increasing demands for quality higher education in a lifelong learning perspective
o the application of ICTs to teaching and learning has great potential to increase access, quality and success
o the accelerated velocity of technology change has created pressing challenges that higher education, governments and industry must address together
o increasing attention to teacher training: empowering teachers (“digital immigrants”) to harness the potential of ICTs
o in spite of the progress made, ICTs are still unfairly distributed worldwide - need for more international solidarity to close the digital and knowledge divides
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ICTs for Higher Education: Key Trends and New Dynamics
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The integration of ICTs in higher education is inevitable. The very high demand for higher education has stimulated significant growth in both private and public provision
Open universities are expanding and multiplying and many conventional institutions are adopting dual-mode or blended program delivery systems, creating a new dynamic in flexible and lifelong learning
ICTs for Higher Education (cont’d)
In the absence of policies and programmes defining the generative and developmental roles of higher education institutions, many ICT activities are simply ad-hoc projects with limited potential to be self-sustaining and self-generative
ICTs can add value to the role of institutions in economic growth and social development if appropriate perspectives and roadmaps are integrated in mainstream policies
Institutional and sector-wide higher education ICT policy and planning should identify the specific role of ICTs in enhancing research
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Higher Education at a Time of Transformation. New Dynamics
for Social Responsibility
The technological revolution has led to a dramatic transformation in distance education as a mode of delivery
Growth and changes in cross-border programmes and provider mobility
In cross-border education, recognition/registration is critical to ensuring quality assurance, the legitimacy of the institution of the qualifications provided
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Higher Education, Research and Innovation: Changing Dynamics
Throughout the current decade, the world has witnessed the advance of the Knowledge Society and its principal engine, the Knowledge Economy
Due to new technologies, all countries have been obliged to review/reorganize their capacities for accessing and benefiting from high-level knowledge
The systems of knowledge production (universities; public laboratories; research centres; industry and the private sector) have emerged as the main motors of development in a globalized world
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The ODL Triangle: Access, Cost and Quality
Globalization is pressuring developing countries to expand access and improve quality as international league tables compare age participation rates and institutional quality
Yet the three fundamental vectors that define education - access, cost and quality - pull in different directions, creating an iron triangle of forces to constrain traditional methods of higher education
Fortunately technology-mediated distance learning does allow access to be extended, quality improved and costs cut all at the same time
In a new manifestation of internationalisation, the open universities have more in common with each other than with traditional universities in their home countries
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Action for the Next Ten Years:An Institutional View:
The Open University, UK
The emerging technological changes require a fundamental shift in the way institutions conduct their affairs
Vast digital assets created, combined with extraordinary computer power, make it possible to ask and research questions not capable of being researched before
Students can and do study e-learning offerings from universities all over the world as more and more universities are adding e-learning options
Digital age requires new abilities: from instruction to discovery; from individual to collaborative learning; from broadcast to interactive learning; from teacher-centric to student-centric learning
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Maastricht Message From the M-2009 World Conference
(ICDE and EADTU)
Innovative, flexible ways of learning, and creating and sharing knowledge are required if every one of the world’s people is to have the opportunity to maximize his or her potential and to contribute to the development of their communities
Governments, NGOs, not-for-profit interests and the corporate sector must individually and collectively mobilize their imagination and resources to create flexible, accessible, and quality learning at scale
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Maastricht Message (cont’d)
Over the last four decades open, flexible and distance learning has developed so that it now offers the first real means of delivering quality learning at scale
The open and distance university movement is removing barriers of geography, time and cost while maintaining quality of education
In some countries open and distance education now serves more than one third of the student population and this is growing rapidly
All of this contributes to the
growth of local and national communities and economies. In the current global economic crisis ODL provides cost efficient and flexible solutions
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Will ICTs Make the Traditional University Obsolete?
The conventional system alone cannot meet the challenges. We must ask the question: will present-day universities become the dinosaurs of tomorrow?
Will there be profound changes in learning content? What is the role of students and staff and how will we ensure quality and sustainability on the Internet?
The future offers exciting opportunities: innovations, such as open educational resources, mobile devices, social software and virtual mobility will radically change the landscape of global learning and expand the global learning community
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Collaboration with the Private Sector: UNESCO/Microsoft
Education Leaders Forum 2009
A one-day Forum, entitled Higher Education: Re-Visioning for Recovery. The Path to Sustainable Development
Discussed how governments and universities should take full advantage of e-technology’s potential to address the current knowledge and skills challenges
The announcement of a Joint UNESCO/Microsoft Task Force on ICTs and Higher Education
Microsoft's $50 million commitment to support the mission of the new task force and to enable the implementation of critical UNESCO and Microsoft educational resources
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What is Quality in E-learning?
Quality = Fitness of Purpose
Quality in e-learning refers to learning:
o providing the right content at the right time
o enable learners to acquire knowledge and skills
o enable learners apply their learning to improve their performance
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E-xcellence: A European wide Standard for Quality Assurance for
E-learning in Higher Education
The manual provides a set of benchmarks, quality criteria, performance indicators and notes for guidance
A reference tool for the assessment or review of e-learning programmes and the systems supporting them
Six sections (strategic management, curriculum design, course design, course delivery, staff support and student support)
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Assessing E-learning Qualityin Europe
Presents a model for quality assessment of e-learning
What constitutes quality in e-learning and how such quality may be assessed?
In many organizations, quality in e-learning appears to be a non-issue
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Ten Quality Aspects
Material/content Structure/virtual environment Communication, cooperation and interactivity Student assessment Flexibility and adaptability Support (faculty and students) Staff qualifications and experience Vision and institutional leadership Resource allocation The holistic and process aspect
Need for 21Need for 21stst Century Skills Century Skills
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A 21st Century Model of Learning Powered
by Technology
Goals and recommendations
in 5 essential areas:
Learning Assessment Teaching Infrastructure Productivity
What 21st Century Learning Should Look Like
OECD: Education for the Future - Promoting Changes
in Policies
A tough new world and a challenging future, characterized by:
high unemployment growing inequalities stronger competition fewer jobs enhanced interdependence economic growth driven by innovation
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The Virtual University
E-learning and the virtual university - two issues associated with cross-border education
Explores ICT-related policy, planning and management implications of new (UNITAR, Malaysia) or reorganized HEIs (USQOnline Australia, Kenyatta University Kenya)
VUs must develop policies and planning, management and financial procedures that are appropriate to their organization, resources and operation
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Sharing Learning Resources over the Internet: Open Educational Resources
Open Educational Resources (OER) = digitized materials offered freely and openly for educators, students, self-learners to use and reuse for teaching, learning and research
Expand access to learning; an efficient way to promote lifelong learning; and bridge the gap between non-formal, informal and formal learning
Quality can be improved and content development reduced by sharing and reusing
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UNESCO ICT Competency Standards for Teachers
To improve teachers’ practice through ICTs
Developed in partnership with Intel, Cisco, Microsoft, International Society for Technology in Education, and Virginia Tech
Three booklets: policy framework; competency standards modules; implementation guidelines (translated into all 6 UNESCO official languages)
Curriculum Framework
Important: Ensuring ODL Quality Throughout Education!
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quality of distance education: 37,4/74,9 = 0,5
I. Definition and Background
UNITWIN is the abbreviation for the University Twinning and Networking.
The UNITWIN/UNESCO Chairs Programme, established in 1992, is conceived as a way to advance research, training and programme development in higher education by building university networks and encouraging inter-university cooperation through transfer of knowledge across borders.
UNITWIN / UNESCO Chairs UNITWIN / UNESCO Chairs ProgrammeProgramme
Disciplinary and Geographic Breakdown
II. UNITWIN in figures (as of 21.04.2010)
659 UNESCO Chairs
65 UNITWIN Networks
770 Higher Education institutions
127 Member States
Social and Human Sciences 28%
Communication&Information
5%
Natural Sciences
35% (20% in Engineering)
Culture13%
Education19%
(5%in ICTs)
49%
17%14%
12%8%
Europe&NorthAmerica
Latin America&theCaribbean
Asia&the Pacific Africa Arab States
New Strategic Orientations of the UNITWIN Programme
(2007)
Creation of a new generation of UNESCO Chairs /UNITWIN Networks, to be acting as “think-tanks” and as “bridge-builders”, between research outcomes and decision-making, as well as between academia and local communities
Realignment with UNESCO’s priorities
Creation of regional or sub-regional poles of excellence and innovation
Stimulation of triangular North-South-South cooperation
Reinforcing the knowledge, research and innovation
triangle
Poles of excellence and innovation
A pole of excellence is a combination, in a given geographic space, of universities, institutes of higher learning, training centres, foundations and public or private research units involved in a synergy around innovating common projects.
This partnership, built around a specific theme or field, must seek out for a critical mass to enable a certain quality and international transparency.
Scaling Up International Best Practice in and with ICTs
UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa Prize for the Use of ICTs (set up in 2005; donation made by the Kingdom of Bahrain)
US$50,000 divided equally to 2 prizewinners; rewards innovative and creative use of ICTs to enhance teaching, learning and overall educational performance
Prizewinners: 2006 KERIS (Korea); Kemi-Tornio Polytechnic (Finland)2007: Claroline Consortium (Belgium); Curriki (USA)2008: Shanghai TV University (China); Dr Hoda Baraka (Egypt)2009: Prof. Alexei Semenov (Russia); The Jordan Education Initiative
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Готовность к информационному обществу
Мировые рейтинги 2009
Исследовательское подразделение британского журнала «Экономист» – «Экономист Интеллидженс Юнит»
(Economist Intelligence Unit)
• 650 аналитиков по всему миру
• С 2000 г. – анализ готовности к информационному обществу (e-readiness)
• Более 100 критериев, количественных и качественных.
Место России в мировом рейтинге
Год Обследовано стран
Место России
2001 60 42
2002 60 45
2005 68 52
2006 68 52
2007 69 57
2008 70 59
2009 70 59
The World Bank: Rise of New Economic Powerhouses
(January 2010)
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Чтобы сохранить свое Чтобы сохранить свое место в рейтинге, надо место в рейтинге, надо
бежать изо всех сил бежать изо всех сил
Из выступления главы государства Дмитрия Медведева 31 августа 2009 на совещании по модернизации и технологическому развитию экономики касательно вопроса приоритетных ИТ-проектов: «Оптимистичные картины спрячьте подальше – «Оптимистичные картины спрячьте подальше – реальных подвижек нет… По части интеграции ИТ в реальных подвижек нет… По части интеграции ИТ в экономику страны принята «Стратегия развития экономику страны принята «Стратегия развития информационного общества», однако ее реализация информационного общества», однако ее реализация находится на неудовлетворительном уровне». находится на неудовлетворительном уровне».
«В международном рейтинге готовности к информационному обществу Россия по ряду показателей занимает места в шестом-седьмом занимает места в шестом-седьмом десяткедесятке, продолжая скатываться вниз. И это при том, что государственные расходы на информатизацию в настоящий момент абсолютно сопоставимы с расходами развитых европейских стран.»
Д.А. Медведев
««Еще один приоритет - развитие культурно-познавательных и образовательных сервисов на базе интернет-ресурсов нового поколения. При этом особое внимание президент призвал уделить системе дистанционного общего и профессионального обучения, которая поможет получить образование людям с ограниченными возможностями и невысоким уровнем доходов. Также, президент отмечает роль переноса роль переноса знаний из развитых стран.»знаний из развитых стран.»
Д.А. Медведев
Россия, вперёд! Статья Дмитрия Медведева
«Иностранным компаниям и научным организациям будут предоставляться самые благоприятные условия для строительства в России исследовательских и конструкторских центров
. Мы пригласим на работу лучших учёных и инженеров из разных стран мира.
И, главное, мы будем объяснять нашей молодёжи, что важнейшим конкурентным преимуществом являются знания, которых нет у других, интеллектуальное превосходство, умение создавать вещи, нужные людям».
10 сентября 2009 года
Более низкие показатели, чем у России
2009 г. 2008 г. Страна
60 63 Эквадор
61 62 Нигерия
62 61 Украина
63 60 Шри-Ланка
64 65 Вьетнам
65 68 Индонезия
66 64 Пакистан
67 67 Алжир
68 70 Иран
69 66 Казахстан
70 69 Азербайджан
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Towards u-learning?
