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Politicas de Uso de Nuevas Tecnologias en la Educacion
Superior
Bogota, Colombia, Agosto 2005
La educación virtual y el futuro de
las universidades
Tom Schuller
Head, Centro para la Investigación y la Innovación,
OECD
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Directorate
for Education
Directorate for
Employment
Labour and
Social Affairs
COUNCIL
Centre
for
Educational
Statistics
Research
Directorate
and Innovation
(CERI)
Directorate
for Science
Technology
and
Industry
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Directorate
For Financial
Fiscal and
Enterprise Affairs
Trade
Directorate
Economics
Department
Directorate for
Public Management
and Territorial
Development
SECRETARIAT
COMMITTEES
Environment
Directorate
Directorate for
Food Agriculture
and Fisheries
Development
Co-operation
Directorate
Education and
Training Policy
Division
Indicators and
Analysis
Division
Directorate
for
Education
Centre for
Education
Research and
Innovation
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IMHE/PEB
What CERI does:
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Carries out studies of key educational issues,
using a combination of our own staff and
outside experts from around the world.
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Develops tools, indicators and frameworks for
international analyses of education systems
and practices.
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Promotes research and policy debate through
publications, electronic discussion and
conferences.
E-Learning in Tertiary Education (2005)
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OECD/CERI study: 19 institutions in 13 countries
Key issues:
- Institutional strategy
- Platforms and infrastructure
- Students’ access
- Teaching and learning
- Students and markets
- Staff and materials
- Funding and governance
- Organisational change
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Observatory on Borderless Higher Education: 122
institutions in 12 countries
E-Learning: The Partnership Challenge (2001)
Key issues:
Software not keeping pace with technology
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Professional development:
too little, too basic, too generic
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Content:
- quality level
- cultural bias: low transferability from US
context
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Distance learning has ‘room to grow’
type of learning engaged in in previous 4 weeks – EU avg 2000
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Source: EU Labour Force Survey
Definition:
The use of ICT to enhance and/or support
learning in tertiary education
Levels of online presence:
 None/trivial
 Web-supplemented
 Web-dependent
 Mixed-mode
 Fully online
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Adoption, enrolments, strategies
Growing but still small-scale: ‘high’ online
presence still <5% in most institutions
 Modules rather than programmes
 Most institutions now have an e-learning
strategy, with mixed mode delivery
appearing as the main target
 The impact of e-learning has mainly be
administrative so far: far reaching novel
ways of teaching and learning facilitated by
ICT remain nascent or still to be invented
 Strategies exist, but not to shift to fully
online: main rationales are to increase
flexibility and enhance pedagogy
 Little interest in international markets or in
cost reduction
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Measuring outcomes
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Some scepticism following earlier hype
Lack of developed cost-benefit frameworks.
However:
 Improvement in quality of offer
 Development of in-house software and open
source software
 Learning objects and redesign of materials
 Relaxation of time/space constraints
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Challenges/issues
Staffing:
- Engaging and developing existing staff
- Division of labour/new functions, eg
instructional designers
Reward systems
IPR
Scaling up and mainstreaming
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Partnership issues
Policy agenda
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Evaluation and dissemination of experience
Support appropriate staff development
R&D on learnng objects and other pedagogic
innovations
Clarify IPR issues
Promote dialogue between institutions and IT
providers
Recent OECD publication on
cross-border education (2004)
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Internationalisation
and Trade in Higher
Education
Quality and
Recognition in Higher
Education: the CrossBorder Challenge
University Futures: Purpose of the project
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Develop a set of trend analyses and long-term
scenarios to help policymakers and
stakeholders make strategic choices regarding
the future
Engage stakeholders in discussion and give
common tools to think on the future (NOT
predicting the future)
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Identifying the functions performed by higher
education
Identifying trends and driving forces and
prioritising them
Exploring the interrelationships between them
Imagining their significance and likely impact in
the future
Identifying key dimensions to structure the
scenarios
Selecting meaningful scenarios (among thousands)
Some driving forces
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Demographic changes (ageing population in
OECD)
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Internationalisation and high demand in
emerging economies
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Technology
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Rise of market forces (research & education)
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New forms of governance
Causality?
More international students
More adult learning
Demography
(Ageing society)
Status quo
(academics retire
as young cohorts decline)
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Smaller system
returning to
the elitist model
Drop in public funding
(going increasingly to
healthcare)
Key dimensions of CERI futures scenarios
Lifelong learning
Degrees
delivered
by a
restricted
number of
institutions
Degrees
delivered
by a large
range of
institutions
Initial tertiary education
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Preliminary set of scenarios
Lifelong learning
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Disappearance
Degrees
delivered by a
restricted
number of
institutions
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Open &
Lifelong
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Tradition
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Network
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Entrepreneurial
Initial tertiary education
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Degrees
delivered by a
large range of
institutions
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Free market
Thanks
 [email protected]
 www.oecd.org/edu/ceri
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