ICDE aims for being the global facilitator for inclusive, flexible, quality learning and teaching in the digital age. This presentation shows what ICDE is about and some of its networks and actions.

1. ICDE
To be the global facilitator for inclusive, flexible,
quality learning and teaching in the digital age
Symbiosis Centre for Distance Learning, Pune on March 10-11, 2017
Gard Titlestad, Secretary General
International Council for Open and Distance Education
Member of the Governing Board

2. Open, Transparent,
Accountable and focus
on Good Governance
Support
From
Norway
29 years
UNESCO
Partner
>50 years
SINCE 1938
To be the global facilitator for inclusive, flexible, quality learning and teaching in the digital age.

3. UNESCO INITIATIVE FOR HIGHER EDUCATION
Regional
conferences on
quality
assurance
International
conference on
quality
assurance
Global
convention on
recognition of
qualifications
2017 2018 2019 2020
Global Congress
on higher
education
Core partners Quality: ICDE, CoL and INQAAHE
EXAMPLE PARTNERSHIP

4. To be the global facilitator for inclusive, flexible, quality learning and teaching in the digital age.
ICDE Global Quality Network
• Observe and analyse
• Contribute to UNESCO events and reports
• Suggest policies and actions
• Contribute to state of the art quality online, open, flexible
and technology enhanced learning
• Suggest quality guidelines
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5. UNESCO
Regional
conferences on
quality
assurance
• Global Doctoral Consortium
• Models for technology enhanced education
• Global Quality Network
Analysis
Reports
Insight briefs
Actions, events and
communities
ICDE Quality initiative
ICDE qua
Region Focal Point on Quality
Arab region Dr. Souma Alhaj Ali
HBMSU (Hamdan Bin
Mohammed Smart University)
United Arab Emirates

6. To be the global facilitator for inclusive, flexible, quality learning and teaching in the digital age.
ICDE Chairs in OER
SINCE 1938• Lead high impact events that give profile to ICDE.
• Help shape proposals for new related projects aimed at
attracting funding.
• Demonstrate thought leadership through publications,
videos and teaching by highlighting the link to ICDE and
their position as ICDE Chairs in OER.
• Provide ICDE with advice on policy and other areas.
• Challenge the thinking about the future.

7. To be the global facilitator for inclusive, flexible, quality learning and teaching in the digital age.
ICDE Global Doctoral Consortium

9. To be the global facilitator for inclusive, flexible, quality learning and teaching in the digital age.
ICDE Networks in the pipeline
• Cluster for Learning Analytics
• Advocacy for OER
• Collaborative Online International
Learning
• Exchange of people between instituitons

10. Possible project in the pipeline:
Connecting Quality OER
Reposotories

11. ICDE International Conference
Lifelong Learning,
Lillehammer February 11. – 13. 2019
1.Emerging Pedagogies and Designs for
Online Learning
2.Expanding Access, Openness and
Flexibility
3.Changing Models of Assessment
4.New Delivery Tools and Resources for
Learning
5.Re-designed Institutional Business
Models

12. ”TOWARDS INCLUSIVE AND EQUITABLE
QUALITY EDUCATION AND LIFELONG
LEARNING FOR ALL”
Sustainable Development Goal 4: Education 2030
THANK YOU!
titlestad@icde.org
www.icde.org