Short presentations & panel discussion

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Moderator: Sandra Kucina Softic, EDEN Vice-president, SRCE

Description:

Education and learning are changing and developing on the basis of a range of drivers and technology is among the most prominent of these. Educators will increasingly find themselves in an environment in which there is an overload of information, and so their tasks will, among other things, move to evaluating information effectively, selecting teaching content wisely and helping learners to cope with information of different value and reliability. The Council of the EU recently acknowledged that, together with literacy and numeracy, a digital competence is crucial for accessing and progressing in the labour market and engaging in further education and training. In a changing world and a more unpredictable future, lifelong learning is becoming a central element in people’s lives, and digital learning is in many cases already making this more accessible, flexible and cheaper. As open education models grow in prominence, efforts should move towards making teacher-developed content and materials more widely available. Join us in the discussion on future of education in next decade.

Speakers:

• Airina Volungevičienė, EDEN president, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania – What does it mean to open up education? Lessons learnt and challenges raised
• Morten Flate Paulsen, EDEN Senior Fellow, ICDE – Open leadership. Mapping and tracking global initiatives
• Svetlana Knyazeva, EDEN Fellow, UNESCO IITE – Openness of education: Urgent need for recognizing OER-based learning outcomes in Europe and worldwide
• Katrien Bardoel, NUFFIC – e-Valuate Effective Policies for Recognition of New Forms of Online Learning
• Paul Bacsich, EDEN Fellow, Matic Media Ltd and Sero Consulting Ltd – Do we have a business model for openness in Europe?