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EDEN 2005 Annual Conference on Lifelong E-Learning
Helsinki 20-23 June 2005
Sustainable Investment in Lifelong Learning: the Pivotal Role of ICT
Gregory WurzburgSenior Economist – Education Directorate
OECD
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Lifelong learning is not yet “a reality for all”.
Are e-learning and distance education in a position to fix it?
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Lifelong learning needs E- learning. And vice versa
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What do we mean by sustainable investment?
Social and political
Bureaucratic and institutional
Economic and financial
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Social and political sustainability: what are we up against?
Large numbers of poorly qualified adults
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More than a third of working age adults are poorly qualified
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Totalpopulation
25-34 35-44 55-64
Low ed
Secondary
Tertiary
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Social sustainability: what are up against?
Large numbers of poorly qualified adults Poorly qualified adults are less likely
to participate in further training
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Training participation rates ratio of highly qualified/poorly qualified
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Social sustainability: what are up against?
Large numbers of poorly qualified adults Poorly qualified adults are less likely to
participate in further training For poorly qualified adults it appears
that, over time, the combined effect of lifelong learning – as we know it today – is to worsen earnings inequality.
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The earnings gaps gets largerratio of earnings of high to low qualified
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Finland
Denmark
Source: OECD Education statistics
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What can poorly qualified adults do for e- learning and distance
education?
Grow the learning market
Grow the e-learning and distance
education ‘market share’
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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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Conferences
Source: EU Labour Force Survey
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How can e-learning and distance education reach poorly qualified
adults? Motivation – through individualised
instruction Overcome the lack of time Provide ‘non-formal’ learning settings Content that has worked:
– adult basic ed/literacy– ICT skills– corporate learning– higher ed
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Access in lowest income households as a per cent of access in highest incomehouseholds
Getting to know your market… Internet access in the home and household income, 2000
Source: Pont and Sweet (2003) Adult learnig and ICT: How to
respond to the diversity of needs?
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Getting to know your market… PC Access in home with and without children
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Australia France Netherlands US
with children without children
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Getting to know your market… Internet access for households with and without
children
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Canada
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What do we mean by sustainable investment?
Social and political
Bureaucratic and institutional
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Second thoughts about strategies for implementing LLL
Who loses and why?
– Lifelong learning as a threat to education
– Lifelong learning as a threat to individuals
Implications for e-learning and distance learning
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What do we mean by sustainable investment?
Social and political
Bureaucratic and institutional
Economic and financial
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Economic sustainability depends on…
Outcomes that generate predictable benefits– Visible– valid – valued
Manageable costs– visible– realistic– competitive
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What’s needed?
A plan How does ICT enhance the
sustainability of LLL Evidence Advocacy
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Thank you