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A Transforming Asia: Challenges and Opportunities for Collaboration in Education Development and Open
Educational Resources
Jouko Sarvi Practice Leader for Education
Asian Development Bank
Regional Symposium on OER: Beyond Advocacy, Research and Policy
24 – 27 June 2014, Wawasan Open University, Penang
Presentation Structure
1. ADB’s support to education – overview, key themes
2. The context: a transforming Asia
3. Collaboration in education development and OER: challenges and opportunities
4. Some inquiries
• Education is among core operational areas in ADB’s Strategy 2020
• Mid term review in 2014: ADB to expand support to education
• Education by 2020: A Sector Operations Plan guides implementation
• Financing + knowledge + partnerships
ADB’s Support to Education – Overview, Key Themes
Examples of Knowledge Work
Public-Private Partnerships in
Education
Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) and
Workforce Skills Development
An Annual International Forum
Higher Education in Dynamic Asia – Series
From Access to Participation
• Asia makes a strong case for shifting the higher education development agenda from the narrow perspective of access to widening participation and strengthening inclusiveness in higher education.
Knowledge Based Economy
Key Pillars:
- Economic
- Human resources
(role of education)
- Information
infrastructure
- Innovation
systems
Partnerships for Innovation in Education
Transforming Education for Impact
The Context: a Transforming Asia
• Accelerating to a middle income region: by 2020 only two low income countries
• Widening inequality
• Strong demographic trends
• Old distinctions (rich-poor/developed- developing countries; aid providers- recipients) breaking down
• Composition of development assistance & financing changing
• Collaboration for development: evolution of strategies and approaches?
Education landscape : What are the challenges and opportunities for taking OER
forward?
Secondary Education: Expansion and transformation of
basic education toward universal
secondary education.
Basic Education: Overall, enrollment
rates have improved
toward universal
primary education.
However, problems of
quality and completion
are persistent.
Higher Education: Countries expand and
diversify higher education to
support economic
development and improve
competitiveness.
Skills Development: From TVET to workforce skills
development, with greater role of
industry in training provision, to
improve relevance and cost-efficiency.
Demand for both cognitive and non-
cognitive skills (“soft skills”).
Lifelong Learning: Sound formal
education is necessary
but no more sufficient.
Boundaries between
formal, nonformal, and
informal learning
become blurred.
Advantage: long history with open universities and distance education
• Participation rates in OU provisions in Asia are perhaps the highest in the world
• Education technologies embraced and utilized
• Distance education provisions cut across all sectors of education.
Leading in cross-border collaboration and student mobility
• Evolution of education hubs: student, talent, knowledge/innovation
• 70% HE student mobility will be in Asia
• Crossborder collaboration evolving among students, faculty, institutions
• From physical to virtual mobility, facilitating direct collaboration in education (not merely access to education programs)
[Knight 2014]
Inquiry 1: OER drivers or outcomes?
• Equity (from access to participation, strengthening inclusive development)?
• Cost-efficiency?
• Change through education policy and/or pedagogical practice?
• Institutional change?
• Other drivers or outcomes?
Inquiry 2: Knowledge generation on and capacity development for OER?
• Should the focus shift more from collaboration in content development to collaboration in the use/utilization of OER?
• Is collaboration in OER more feasible in certain subsectors of education than others?
• Dynamics of collaboration in OER: e.g. among teachers, within institutions, between institutions? National level, regional level?
Inquiry 3. ‘Political economy’ of OER?
• Political economy of education development is evolving in the context of a transforming Asia.
• What opportunities does this present for taking collaboration in OER forward?
Thank you.
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