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Responding to equity challenges in higher education

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The presentation considers how open education innovations can contribute to solving the equity/equality gap in Europe, as described by the aims of the Bologna Process.
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Responding to Equity Challenges in Higher Education

Some innovations in a lifelong learning perspective

Anthony F. Camilleri EURASHE Annual Conference 2012Riga, LAtvia

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Our aspiration

„We share the societal aspiration that the student body entering,

participating in and completing higher education at all levels should reflect

the diversity of our populations“

London Ministerial Communique

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The factsThe EQUNET 2011 report found that access across the EHEA is inequitable.

Countries so wide divergences on:- gender balance- net entry rates- entry via alternative routes- participation based on

occupational / educational background

- income gap of students- Ratios of foreign students

Lower socioeconomic backgrounds are:- less likely to attend Higher

Education- likely to choose different courses of

study- more likely to work during studies- far less likely to have a mobility

experience

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How realistic?„we commit to securing the highest

.level of public funding for higher

education „

possible

Do you think ‚equity‘ funding is crisis proof?

Bucharest Ministerial Declaration

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Solutions on Offer by Ministries

• Provide adequate support to underrepresented groups

• Promote flexible learning pathways / RPL

• Involve students as active participants in their own learning

• Higher Education should be an open process

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Solutions on Offer by Ministries

• Provide adequate support to underrepresented groups

• Promote flexible learning pathways / RPL

• Involve students as active participants in their own learning

• Higher Education should be an open process

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Current approaches are incrementalist

Projection of percentage of students entering higher education based on father‘s education

point of equity

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the time is right for

Failure of CurrentApproach

Availability of tools

Vision of a Better future

Incentive tochange

DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION

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Innovating the

Social Dimension

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innovation - the OU model

Remove Entry Requirements

result:• Currently 260000+ students• 70% are able to work during studies, 5%

are disabled

access

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innovation – open textbooks• Average spent by US student on

textbooks per year $981• Approx cost to produce textbook:

$120000 - $150000 (estimates flat-world knowledge)

• SB 1052 / 1053 (California) will create open source textbooks, free or $20 hardcopy

• Estimated savings (overall): up to $ 1 billion

Create licence-free textbooks

participation

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innovation – OERu

• 15 anchor universities, supported by UNESCO and CoL

• First pilots are underway right now

Credentialise Open Learning

participation

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innovation - MOOCsautomate reproducable teaching

• Piloted by Stanford ‚Intro to AI‘ – 100000+ students

• MITx – limited certification for MOOC including virtual lab-work

• EDx – MIT + Harvard $60 million investment

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What else can we do?

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Education is changing....

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unbundling: a vision flexibility

Credit: OERTestwww.oer-europe.net

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social entrepreneurship: education• 55000 social enterprises in the UK –

generating 27 billion GBP per year (2005)

• 15% of the market is in education• approx. equivalent to total yearly

spend on HE of Austria'a social enterprise is a business with primarily social objectives whose surpluses are principally reinvested for that purpose in the business or in the community, rather than being driven by the need to maximise profit for shareholders and owners' (UK DTI, 2002).

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Open Education means

Increased accessIncreased participationIncreased completion

at lower costand Higher Quality

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HEIs can take the lead

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Thank-You for Your Attention

Responding to Equity Challenges in Higher Education

Anthony F. [email protected]

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Thank-You for Your Attention

Responding to Equity Challenges in Higher Education

Anthony F. [email protected]

Presentation available from:

http://www.slideshare.net/anthonycamilleri