Summary Report: ICDE Roundtable at UNESCO World Higher Education Conference 2022
This report presents regional perspectives on the challenges and opportunities for the topic of quality within Open, Flexible and Distance learning (OFDL).
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Summary Report: ICDE Leadership Summit 2022
This report summarises speeches, presentations, and panel discussions from the ICDE Leadership Summit 2022.
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Conference proceedings: ICDE Virtual Global Conference Week 2021
During the week of 25 – 29 October 2021, ICDE hosted its first fully virtual global academic conference in history: the ICDE Virtual Global Conference Week 2021. This document contains the conference proceedings from the ICDE VGCW 2021.
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Open Innovation Framework Report from the ICDE OERAC 2022
This report titled “Open Innovation Framework: Emerging Narratives from the ICDE OER Advocacy Committee” addresses Open Educational Resources and Open Science through a proposed framework for Open Innovation.
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ICDE Quality Network report 2021: Global Quality Perspectives on Open, Flexible and Distance Learning 2021
The 2021 report summarises the ICDE Quality Network’s analysis of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic 2020-2021 in accelerating the inclusion of online elements in so many Higher Education institutions.
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ICDE Presidents' Forum 2020: Summary Report
In November 2020, ICDE took the opportunity to reflect back and learn from the experiences from the COVID-19 pandemic to prepare tools and systems to reduce future disruptions to delivering education based on lessons learnt from the onset of the pandemic. On the 25 November 2020, Presidents, Vice-Chancellors, Principles, and Rectors of Higher Education providers among current ICDE Institutional Members and the Presidents and CEOs of partner organisations gathered for the ICDE Presidents’ Forum 2020 to focus discussions on “Recalibrating educational leadership for resilient education”.
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ICDE Quality Network Report - Global Quality Perspectives On Open, Online And Flexible Learning 2020
This global report gives an overview of perceived issues of quality and assessment related to the immediate shift to online and distance learning modalities that educators had to undertake when the pandemic hit.
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ICDE OER Advocacy Committee’s survey report on the Implementation of the UNESCO Recommendation on OER
This global report is based on the findings of the ICDE OER Advocacy Committee (OERAC) survey and aims to provide a general baseline against which the international community can map future progress toward the UNESCO OER Recommendation. The report also aims to provide context and recommended next steps, with a special recognition of COVID-19’s impact on OER activities.
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European Commission: A European approach to micro-credentials
The European Commission have just launched a new website on micro-credentials and explains why an European approach is needed. The website outlines the wide-reaching benefits of micro-credentialing and highlights the importance of flexible learning, in addition to providing several reports and approaches in a multitude of languages.
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Report: Reimagining State Higher Education Funding
In fall 2019, Ithaka S+R, with support from the Joyce Foundation, convened a group of experts to identify and discuss the weaknesses in current higher education funding models and develop new ideas and approaches to improve upon current models or revamp the funding system.
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Report: Models For Online, Open, Flexible And Technology Enhanced Higher Education (OOFAT)
The study has investigated 69 full cases from higher education institutions in all regions of the world, covering more than 30 different countries. The research group has identified six typologies of what is called the “OOFAT model” to which the cases have been aligned
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2018 Report: Grade Increase: Tracking Distance Education in the United States
The Babson Survey Research Group (BSRG) is a survey design, implementation, and analysis organization. BSRG was founded in 2005 within the Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship at Babson College.
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Addisco - 20 years of experience with lifelong learning in Norway
A successful partnership to enhance employability to be prepared for labour markets in constant change.
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Report On The State Of Open Universities In The Commonwealth, Written For The Commonwealth Of Learning (COL)
‘The report, written for the Commonwealth of Learning, critically examines specialist open and distance learning (ODL) universities.
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Monitoring the uptake of online, open and flexible higher education
The global landscape of post-secondary education is in a period of dramatic change. A significant driver for this has been a dramatic rise in the use of technology and the extension of the traditional campus to more learners.
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IDEAL- Impact of Distance Education on Adult Learning
The IDEAL project seeks to examine how higher education institutions can and do contribute to adult learning by way of distance education.
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Ten useful reports on MOOCs and online education
This digest of reports and papers published over the past year is provided to support the ongoing debate on MOOCs, Open Educational Resources and online education. A brief summary of the contents, dates of publication and extent are given.
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Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2015
Developed by an independent team and published by UNESCO, the Education for All Global Monitoring Report is an authoritative reference that aims to inform, influence and sustain genuine commitment towards Education for All.
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2013 US Survey of Online Learning published
The 2013 Survey of Online Learning conducted by the Babson Survey Research Group in partnership with the Sloan Consortium and Pearson reveals the number of higher education students taking at least one online course in the United States now exceeds 7.1 million. But it also registers growing skepticism about the role and sustainability of MOOCs.
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