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Responding to Equity Challenges in Higher Education

Responding to Equity Challenges in Higher Education. Some innovations in a lifelong learning perspective. Anthony F. Camilleri. EURASHE Annual Conference 2012 Riga, LAtvia. Our aspiration.

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Responding to Equity Challenges in Higher Education

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  1. Responding to Equity Challenges in Higher Education Some innovations in a lifelong learning perspective Anthony F. Camilleri EURASHE Annual Conference 2012Riga, LAtvia

  2. 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

  3. The facts • 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: • lesslikely to attend Higher Education • likelyto choose different courses of study • more likely to work during studies • farless likely to have a mobility experience The EQUNET 2011 report found that access across the EHEA is inequitable.

  4. How realistic? possible Bucharest Ministerial Declaration Do you think ‚equity‘ funding is crisis proof? „we commit to securing the highest.level of public funding for higher education „

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. Current approaches are incrementalist point of equity 2125 Projection of percentage of students entering higher education based on father‘s education 2000-2010 1970-1980

  8. the time is right for Incentive tochange Failure of Current Approach Availability oftools Vision of a Better future DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION

  9. Innovating theSocial Dimension

  10. innovation - the OU model access Remove Entry Requirements result: • Currently 260000+ students • 70% are able to work during studies, 5% are disabled

  11. innovation – open textbooks Create licence-free textbooks participation 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

  12. innovation – OERu Credentialise Open Learning participation 15 anchor universities, supported by UNESCO and CoL First pilots are underway right now

  13. innovation - MOOCs automate 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

  14. What else can we do?

  15. Educationis changing....

  16. unbundling: a vision flexibility Credit: OERTest www.oer-europe.net

  17. social entrepreneurship: education '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). 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

  18. Open Education means Increased access Increased participation Increased completion at lower cost and Higher Quality

  19. HEIs can take the lead

  20. Information knows no borders Credit: facebook

  21. Thank-You for Your Attention Responding to Equity Challenges in Higher Education Anthony F. Camilleri anthony@camilleri.com Presentation available from: http://www.slideshare.net/anthonycamilleri Feedback is welcome! Released under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike3.0 Belgium License You are free: • to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the work • to Remix — to adapt the work Under the following conditions: Attribution — You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). Share Alike — If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one.

  22. Thank-You for Your Attention Responding to Equity Challenges in Higher Education Anthony F. Camilleri anthony@camilleri.com Presentation available from: http://www.slideshare.net/anthonycamilleri

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