Xavier Prats Monné: Between EDEN and Earth: Technology and the Modernisation of EU Higher Education

Xavier Prats Monné: Between EDEN and Earth: Technology and the Modernisation of EU Higher Education

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  From EDEN toEarth: Technology and the Modernisation of EU Higher Education EDEN 2015 – Barcelona, June 10th, 2015 Xavier PRATS MONNÉ Director-General for Education and Culture European Commission
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  Paradise on Earthor fad? "Books will soon be obsolete in schools. It is possible to teach every branch of human knowledge with the motion picture". Thomas Edison, 1913 "Television won’t last more than six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.” Darryl Zanuck 20th Century Fox, 1946
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  Demography, globalisation and technologywill transform: The global distribution of talent The way we teach and learn
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  The talent poolis changing…
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  … and willcontinue to change
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  A classroom in1915…
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  An operating roomin 1915…
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  … and in2015
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  2015
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  The roles: Teachervs researcher The times: Degree vs lifetime subscription The content: Books vs blended learning Technology is deconstructing education…
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  Knowledge is createdby flexible, collaborative networks working in unstable environments… …but most education institutions are organised vertically, by department and discipline, and are highly regulated… …so the main challenge is not to modernise pedagogies but public administrations. …but the real change is in the nature of knowledge
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  We need tothink of another type of education High School nº 1. Xiaogan, Hubei (China) - May 2012
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  • A self-assessmentand development tool for HEIs • European Commission and OECD partnership, launched in November 2013 • Not a ranking or benchmarking system • More than 600 HEIs have undertaken the self- assessment on a voluntary basis • Workshops organised in over 15 Member States • Policy relevance: two country reviews using HEInnovate methodology: Ireland and Poland HEInnovate
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  1717 universities are includedwith publicly available data1,200 of 1,200 universities provided comprehensive data670 faculties/departments in 7 field-based rankings: (psychology, medicine and computer science, as physics, electrical and mechanical engineering, business studies) 1,800 study programmes in these faculties are included7,500 students completed the student satisfaction survey85,000 80 countries have universities in U-Multirank @UMultirank Evidence-based ranking
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  • Education andCulture: http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/education_culture/index_en.htm • Erasmus+ : http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus- plus/index_en.htm • HEInnovate: https://heinnovate.eu/ • U-Multirank: http://www.umultirank.org/#!/home?trackType=home • Horizon 2020: https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/ • Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions: https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en/h2020- section/marie-sklodowska-curie-actions Further information