Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Nelson Mandela (1918 – 2013) Nobel Laureate, 1993

Online, Open and Flexible Higher Education for the Future we want International Council on Distance Education (ICDE) and Unesco June 2015

Moving From Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals MDG Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education Target 2.A: Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling Measures: 2.1 Net enrolment ratio in primary education 2.2 Proportion of pupils starting grade 1 who reach last grade of primary 2.3 Literacy rate of year-olds, women and men

MDG Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women Target 3: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education no later than 2015 Measure Ratios of girls to boys in primary, secondary and tertiary education

South Africa’s record The proportion of functionally literate adults increased from 70% in 1995 to 83% in 2012, and the proportion of totally illiterate adults decreased from 13% in 1995 to 6% in SA EFA 2013 report

South Africa’s record By 2012, 93.9% of learners in Grade 1 in public schools had attended Grade R. In 2013, 98.8% of 7 to 15 year-olds enrolled at an educational institution. Gender parity was achieved throughout the reporting period. In 2013, 15% of females aged 16 to 18 years were not attending an educational institution compared to almost 13% of males. – % females decreased from approximately 21% in 2002 to almost 15% in 2013, – % males remained stable at an average of 14% between 2002 and 2013.

Primary Completion

Secondary completion

We report on our disastrous results in the ANAS International agenda impacts on our national agenda

National Senior Certificate (NSC) pass rate by gender, 2008 – 2012 Source:

We reaffirm that education is a public good, a fundamental human right and a basis for guaranteeing the realization of other rights. It is essential for peace, tolerance, human fulfilment and sustainable development. We recognize education as key to achieving full employment and poverty eradication. Incheon Declaration

Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all Incheon Declaration

We commit to promoting quality lifelong learning opportunities for all, in all settings and at all levels of education.

This includes equitable and increased access to quality technical and vocational education and training and higher education and research, with due attention to quality assurance.

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) must be harnessed to strengthen education systems, knowledge dissemination, information access, quality and effective learning, and more effective service provision.

Examples of targets 4.3 By 2030, ensure equal access for all women and men to affordable and quality technical, vocational and tertiary education, including university 4.4 By 2030, increase by [x] per cent the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship

The Qingdao Declaration is the first global declaration on ICT in education

Online, Open and Flexible Higher Learning for the Future We Want

Online, Open and Flexible Higher Education for the Future We Want Paris Declaration – which may become the Pretoria Declaration

Key messages Qingdao and Paris Declarations To achieve the goal of inclusive and equitable quality education and lifelong learning by 2030, ICT – including mobile learning – must be harnessed to strengthen education systems, knowledge dissemination, information access, quality and effective learning, and more efficient service provision. ( Qingdao ) The need to harness different technologies to meet the scale and urgency of demand for quality education envisaged by the SDG, especially post-schooling, cost effectively requires transformation of the system, where “ online, open and flexible learning must represent an essential component of the global response ’’ (Paris)

Key Actions proposed Establish a conducive policy environment – odel and lifelong learning Ensure funding for online, open and flexible learning Ensure robust and supportive quality assurance systems Collaborate with each other to maximise resources Mobilise resources to ensure the necessary ICT infrastructure “We commit to ensure that all girls and boys have access to connected digital devices and a relevant and responsive digital learning environment by 2030, irrespective of their disabilities, social or economic status, or geographic location.” (Qingdao).

Key Actions proposed Foreground that deep learning and conceptual understanding is the role of higher education Prioritise curriculum and programme transformation (relevance, student engagement, service to society) Prioritise educator development and support Embed the culture of open educational resources Produce evidence of what works and what doesn’t Develop a culture of learning from each other UNESCO to establish a clearing house on good practices and lessons learned concerning technology-supported innovations in education (Qingdao).

We have our visionary White Paper on Post Schooling What actions should we take as NADEOSA? Working together in programme design and materials development Sharing OER – repository- links through OERAfrica say Business models re selling services ODL practitioner resources Macro, Meso, Practice levels Task team Prioritise research on all we do Exec agenda/social media(Nadeosa group) – help desk Communique from Nadeoso Exec Exchange programmes – ‘’register’’ good practices