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Borderless Higher Education: Markets, Providers, QA & Qualifications

Borderless Higher Education: Markets, Providers, QA & Qualifications. Robin Middlehurst University of Surrey. Agenda. Borderless Higher Education: reports & concept A changing educational map Commercial sector Not-for profit sector Features of borderless education QA implications.

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Borderless Higher Education: Markets, Providers, QA & Qualifications

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  1. Borderless Higher Education:Markets, Providers, QA & Qualifications Robin Middlehurst University of Surrey

  2. Agenda • Borderless Higher Education: reports & concept • A changing educational map • Commercial sector • Not-for profit sector • Features of borderless education • QA implications

  3. Borderless Higher Education • Australian & UK reports (& others…) • Context: • Knowledge economies, LLL, demand for HE • Globalisation and technology • Commercialisation of HE, growth in trade • Concept: • Crossing & blurring of boundaries • Time & space, for-profit & public, education & business, learning activities…

  4. A Changing Educational Map Corporate Universities Private & for-profit education Smart alliances Virtual universities & projects Media/publishing businesses Regional & cross-sector networks Educational services & brokers University-corporate partnerships Specialist HEIs & niche markets Privatisation of ‘public’ universities International university consortia Dual-mode

  5. Commercial sector: Corporate universities Private & for-profit providers Media & publishing Educational services and brokers HE sector: Regional & international consortia Trans-national education National virtual universities Borderless Higher Education

  6. Features of borderless education • Technology dependence • Dissolving boundaries • Emerging boundaries • Educational value • Subject spread • Collaboration

  7. Demand side: More & different kinds of students Lifelong learning opportunities New skills and re-training Supply side: New media Different learning locations New curricular forms & content Changing credit & qualifications QA implications • Control….?

  8. QA: new or different variables Types of provider & provision • Individual providers – full range of services & products • Consortia – full range • Part or joint providers – shared services • Multi-agent – shared services • Self-assembly

  9. Delivery: modes, media & locations • Co-location (or not): students & tutors • Forms of interaction: learners & learners, tutors & learners + resources • Support systems: social, academic, technological • Media adding value: quality, accessibility, relevance • Quality of experience, academic standards?

  10. Curriculum & content: Authority to design & determine Authority to assure currency & credibility Standards, assessment, level, equivalence Qualifications: Joint, multiple awards Integrated degrees Experiential learning Ownership, authority, credit transfer, value of award Curriculum…qualifications

  11. Crossing borders… • National: laws & policies, visas, IPR, funding, culture, language • Organisational: legal, funding, technical capacity, culture • Functional: responsibilities, systems, standards & structures • Time, space, location: security, tracking, standards, systems, information, guidance

  12. Conclusions & issues arising • Review our assumptions & categories • Welcome diversity & learn from good practice anywhere • Adjust policies and systems • Negotiate towards agreed conventions & standards • Share information….

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