mr jiang bo with stamenka uvalic-trumbic beijing, 2012
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Mr Jiang Bo with Stamenka Uvalic-Trumbic Beijing, 2012
World Heritage Centre for Asia-Pacific
Stamenka Uvalić-Trumbić & Sir John Daniel
Education Masters: DeTao Masters Academy
Diversity and Quality in Higher Education
Stamenka Uvalić-Trumbić
& Sir John Daniel
Education Masters: DeTao Masters Academy
PLAN: • New Dynamics of Higher
Education (WCHE – 2009)
• Impact of Technology • New Interpretations of Quality
Rising demand • Globally, age participation rates grown
from 19% in 2000 to 26% in 2007
• 40% age participation rates = springboard for development
• Expansion: 97 million (2000) to 263 million (2025)
TERTIARY ENROLMENT RATES
UNESCO Institute of Statistics
0
20,000,000
40,000,000
60,000,000
80,000,000
100,000,000
120,000,000
140,000,000
Tertiary school age populationTertiary enrolment
Diversification: new providers
- Online - World-Class - Competency Based - Cross-border HOW TO ASSURE QUALITY?
PLAN: • New Dynamics of Higher
Education (WCHE – 2009)
• Impact of Technology • New Interpretations of Quality
Impact of ICTs in 4 HE Functions:
• Research
• Administration
• Community Service
• Teaching/Learning
ODL
Open and Distance Learning
Open as to: • People • Places • Methods • Ideas
‘My Degree – My Way’
BRITAIN’S TOP NINE UNIVERSITIES Quality Rankings of Teaching
based on all subject assessments 1995-2004 (Sunday Times University Guide 2004)
1 CAMBRIDGE 96% 2 LOUGHBOROUGH 95% 3= LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS 88% 3= YORK 88% 5 THE OPEN UNIVERSITY 87% 6 OXFORD 86% 7 IMPERIAL COLLEGE 82% 8 UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON 77% 9 ESSEX 77%
Top in student satisfaction
DISTANCE
AND
21ST century developments • Distance education
Distance teaching by campus universities
(dual-mode)
United States (Bates 2011)
• Goals for eLearning are unambitious
• Costs are rising
• No evidence of better learning outcomes
• Failure to meet quality standards
United States (Bates 2013)
• Much better quality and performance
Academic Partnerships: Division of tasks
• Faculty
Curriculum; student assessment
• The Company Conversion to online, recruitment, mentoring, logistics, administration
21ST century developments • Open education
Learning resources freely available online
UNESCO HQ Paris
2002 Forum on the Impact of Open CourseWare for Higher Education in Developing Countries
OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES (OER)
educational materials that may be freely accessed, reused, modified and
shared
Declaration: Participants expressed: “their satisfaction and their wish to develop
together a universal educational resource for the whole of humanity, to be referred to henceforth as Open Educational Resources”
2002 FORUM on the Impact of Open CourseWare for
Higher Education in Developing Countries
Neil Butcher
Stamenka Uvalić-Trumbić
Asha Kanwar
col.org/resources
Zeynep Varoglu
Trudi van Wyk
The Paris Declaration
World Congress on Open Educational Resources
Paris – June 20-22 – 2012
Paris Declaration on OER
10. Encourage open licensing of educational material produced with public funds
THE AIM
“to encourage governments to promote OER and the use of open licences…
(because)
…governments will be major beneficiaries thanks
to the potential of OER to improve the cost-effectiveness of their large investments in
education.”
ODL
Open and Distance Learning
What is a MOOC?
Massive Open Online Course
Course x6002 Circuits and Electronics
155,000 registrations 23,000 tried first test
9,000 passed mid-term 7,157 passed = < 5%
Two different approaches to online teaching
• MOOCs:
50,000 to 150,000 students per course Pass rate < 5%. No credits given
• Academic Partnerships 1,000 to 5,000 students per course Pass rate same as classroom. Crediit given
Two different aims for online teaching
• MOOCs:
Increase global visibility Do not increase output of graduates Protect campus teaching from disruption
Two different aims for online teaching
• MOOCs:
Increase global visibility Do not increase output of graduates Protect campus teaching from disruption
• Academic Partnerships Master online teaching Increase graduate numbers
First course in the programme offered free and for credit as a MOOC
Some universities now offer credit to students
who have passed MOOCs offered by other universities
What is a MOOC? Massive Open Online
Course
Where will MOOCs lead higher education?
Diversification: new providers
- Online - World-Class - Competency Based - Cross-border HOW TO ASSURE QUALITY?
The Making of World Class Universities
RANKINGS: 50 COUNTRIES, 10 INTERNATIONAL, SOME REGIONAL
Competency-based education
Competency-based education
• No courses but defined competencies
• Emphasis on learning outcomes and assessment
• Validating competencies: “open badges”
DeTao Masters Academy
Chairman George Lee
Unique Pool
of Global Talent
54
One Hundred Masters from the Whole World
Cross-border Higher Education
• CBHE: branch campuses; franchises, twinning, eLearning
• International Branch Campuses distinct form of CBHE
• 200 degree-awarding international branch campuses end of 2011; 37 more to open
• IBCs growth 43% since 2006
China and Singapore
Singapore 50% increase China 70% increase
China’s first branch campus
Nottingham University, Ningbo, China
NYU Global: Abu Dhabi Tirana Shanghai
Quality?
Fitness for Purpose?
The internationalisation of Quality Assurance
What is quality? Inputs Processes Outputs
What is quality? Inputs Examination results, quality of library, qualifications of staff… Processes Outputs
What is quality? Inputs Examination results, quality of library, qualifications of staff… Processes How good is teaching? Counseling services? Effective administrative procedures? Outputs
What is quality? Inputs Examination results, quality of library, qualifications of staff… Processes How good is teaching? Counseling services? Effective administrative procedures? Outputs What are the learning outcomes?
Judith Eaton
President
Council for Higher Education
Accreditation (US)
“the spread of the familiar”
MOOCs & OER
What is quality?
“A degree mill offers a credential purely in exchange for payment and nothing
else”
RANKINGS = QUALITY ???
Competency-based education
Validating competencies:
“open badges”
INFORMATION • who issued the badge and on what
date • how the badge was earned
• hyperlinks to artefacts, documents or testimonials demonstrating the work that led to earning the badge
• authentication back to the issuer.
Quality?
Benefits to students!
QUESTION
What is quality?
(in one sentence!)
Stamenka Uvalic-Trumbic [email protected]
Sir John Daniel [email protected]
Text & Slides at: www.sirjohn.ca