Xavier Prats- Monne is Director-General for Education and Culture of the European Commission. See his presentation at the #EDEN15 Annual Conference here. His talk is captured on video and will be published on EDEN's Youtube channel soon. Read about EDEN: http://www.eden-online.org

1. From EDEN to Earth:
Technology and the Modernisation
of EU Higher Education
EDEN 2015 – Barcelona, June 10th, 2015
Xavier PRATS MONNÉ
Director-General for Education and Culture
European Commission

2. Paradise on Earth or fad?
"Books will soon be
obsolete in schools. It is
possible to teach every
branch of human
knowledge with the
motion picture".
Thomas Edison, 1913
"Television won’t last
more than six months.
People will soon get
tired of staring at a
plywood box every
night.”
Darryl Zanuck
20th Century Fox,
1946

5. Demography, globalisation and
technology will transform:
The global distribution of talent
The way we teach and learn

6. The talent pool is changing…

7. … and will continue to change

8. A classroom in 1915…

9. An operating room in 1915…

10. … and in 2015

11. 2015

13. The roles: Teacher vs researcher
The times: Degree vs lifetime subscription
The content: Books vs blended learning
Technology is deconstructing
education…

14. Knowledge is created by flexible, collaborative
networks working in unstable environments…
…but most education institutions are organised
vertically, by department and discipline, and are
highly regulated…
…so the main challenge is not to modernise
pedagogies but public administrations.
…but the real change is in
the nature of knowledge

15. We need to think of
another type of education
High School nº 1. Xiaogan, Hubei (China) - May 2012

16. • A self-assessment and development tool for
HEIs
• European Commission and OECD partnership,
launched in November 2013
• Not a ranking or benchmarking system
• More than 600 HEIs have undertaken the self-
assessment on a voluntary basis
• Workshops organised in over 15 Member States
• Policy relevance: two country reviews using
HEInnovate methodology: Ireland and Poland
HEInnovate

17. 1717
universities are included with publicly available data1,200
of 1,200 universities provided comprehensive data670
faculties/departments in 7 field-based rankings:
(psychology, medicine and computer science, as physics, electrical and
mechanical engineering, business studies)
1,800
study programmes in these faculties are included7,500
students completed the student satisfaction survey85,000
80 countries have universities in U-Multirank
@UMultirank
Evidence-based
ranking

18. • Education and Culture:
http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/education_culture/index_en.htm
• Erasmus+ : http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-
plus/index_en.htm
• HEInnovate: https://heinnovate.eu/
• U-Multirank: http://www.umultirank.org/#!/home?trackType=home
• Horizon 2020: https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/
• Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions:
https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en/h2020-
section/marie-sklodowska-curie-actions
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