What is on the agenda for the future for ICDE - International Council for Distance Education? Presented by the ICDE Secretary General Gard Titlestad in Moscow, Russia and Curitiba Brazil September - October 2014.

1. ICDE – a Taste of
Tomorrow
Moscow, Russia and Curitiba, Brazil 2014
Gard Titlestad, Secretary General
International Council For Open and Distance Education

2. • Why a taste of tomorrow?
– ICDE´s focus – what is underway?
– And: What are issues of our concern?
– More important: Why are we optimistic, and
about what?
• So, What could we do today, to improve our
stakes for tomorrow?

3. • To be the leading global network for making quality learning
accessible throughout the world using open, distance, flexible
and online 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 – the attainment of quality education 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
25 Years Support
From Norway
Why is ICDE here?

4. Objectives - ICDE
• Is a membership-driven networked community of practice
focused on access to quality education for all
• Is aligned with the emerging, comprehensive development
goals and works for all nations and systems, public and private
• Facilitates members and partners to take lead in
methodologies, pedagogy and technology for open, distance,
flexible, online education and elearning
• While closely associated with open and distance learning, its
focus is on quality, access and learning outcomes through a
lens of equity

5. Our member-driven agenda
Examples

6. ICDE OER Chair
– global south
Example initiative
The network of ICDE Chairs in OER currently consists of
five distinguished and internationally recognized
academics in the field of OER:
• Rory McGreal from Athabasca University, Canada
• Wayne Mackintosh from Otago Polytechnic, New
Zealand
• Fred Mulder, Former Rector Open Universiteit, The
Netherlands
• Martin Weller, The Open University, UK
• Maria Soledad Ramirez Montoya, Tecnólogico de
Monterrey, México.
ICDE Chairs in Open Educational Resources - call for
proposals from the Global South
• ICDE is considering the extension of the network of
ICDE Chairs in Open Educational Resources (OER).
• The network, where possible, works in collaboration
with UNESCO and existing UNESCO Chairs in OER.
• Deadline proposals:
15 October 2014

7. ICDE upcoming events
The theme will be scrutinized by keynotes, workshops and
interactive discussions. ICDE has many types of member
institutions, Open Universities, conventional universities
with flexible education offerings, distance teaching
institutes and many more. What we all have in common is
that we are challenged by the rapid changes caused by
the different aspects of open education: Open as free, as
the O in the MOOCs, Open as easy access and affordable,
Open as no formal requirement for enrolment, Open as
Open Content as in Open Access and Open Educational
Resources, Open as freedom of choice to learn when you
want, where you want and at your own pace.
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http://www.unisa.ac.za/

8. Carl Holmberg
Senior Advisor -
IDEAL Project
holmberg@icde.org
Øystein Johannessen
Senior Advisor -
LangOER Project
johannessen@icde.org
Inés Gil-Jaurena
Editor - Open Praxis
editor@openpraxis.org
On distance
Part-time
David Klotz
klotz@icde.org

9. What’s on the
Cooperation Agenda?

10. ICDE Consultative
Committee:
The regional member associations of ICDE
advice ICDE and are consulted on:
• The ICDE Action Plan for 2015.
• Short exchange of information and a dialogue on
what could be on the joint agenda for 2015.
• ICDE Operational Network.
• Partnership on information and communication.
• The Global Online Higher Education Report.

11. The regional member
associations of ICDE
• Asociación Iberoamericana de Educación Superior a Distancia – AIESAD
• Brazilian Association for Distance Education - ABED – Brazil
• African Council for Distance Education (ACDE)
• Association of African Distance Learning Centres
• The South African Institute for Distance Education (SAIDE)
• Arab Network for Distance and Open Education (Anode)
• Middle East e-Learning Association (MEeA)
• The Australasian Council on Open, Distance and e-Learning (ACODE)
• The Open and Distance Leaning Association of Australia (ODLAA)
• The Open Education Resource Foundation – the Open Educational
Resource university (OERu)
• European Foundation for Quality in eLearning (EFQUEL)
• European Distance and E-Learning Network (EDEN)
• The European Association of Distance Teaching Universities (EADTU)

12. Issues:
• Future policies for ODL
• Quality oversight and road ahead
• Student Success
• Global research agenda on ODL
• Academic quality

13. Two policy forum planned,
input factors on the issues:
20 November 2014: Open Education
Key issues in policy for governments
and senior management in higher education
Interventions, from
UNESCO, ICDE and
stakeholders from
organisations, public and
private sector
High Level Policy Forum 17 October 2015:
Open Education: Key issues and policy
advices for governments and senior
management in higher education

14. Initiatives to forward oriented
discussions, example:
• Support Open Education 2.0 – why, what, where, when
– To be discussed at Online EDUCA
– http://www.online-educa.com/programme

15. Ongoing Global Dialogue
Other events in the near future
International Conference
Moscow, 14-15 October
New Challenges for Pedagogy
and Quality Education:
MOOCs, Clouds and Mobiles
Participation and keynote,
followed by governing board
Participation, keynote and
panel on international
associations
ICDE Featured Session and
Participation. Partner meetings.