{"id":5676,"date":"2015-09-19T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2015-09-19T15:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=5676"},"modified":"2015-09-17T10:25:42","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T16:25:42","slug":"worth-sharing-global-policy-forum-to-forge-future-of-online-learning-university-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/09\/19\/worth-sharing-global-policy-forum-to-forge-future-of-online-learning-university-world-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Worth Sharing: Global policy forum to forge future of online learning &#8211; University World News"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5678 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/HACKR022-274x300.gif\" alt=\"HACKR022\" width=\"274\" height=\"300\" \/>University World News did an excellent interview with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hetl.org\/liaisons\/\">HETL Chief Liaison<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hetl.org\/board-of-directors\/\">HETL Vice President<\/a>, Professor Mandla Makhanya, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unisa.ac.za\/Default.asp?Cmd=ViewContent&amp;ContentID=25024\">Vice-Chancellor<\/a> of the University of South Africa (UNISA), one of the largest universities in the world:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>People from across the world have been collaborating to develop policies and actions that will chart the future for higher education, says Professor Mandla Makhanya, vice-chancellor of the University of South Africa. A high-level policy forum at next month\u2019s conference of the International Council for Open and Distance Education, or <a class=\"bluelink\" href=\"http:\/\/icde@icde.org\/\" target=\"_new\">ICDE<\/a>, will apply regional lenses to help forge the way ahead for online, open and flexible learning.<\/p>\n<p>The collaboration is sparking something great and innovative in the higher education environment, Makhanya told <i>University World News<\/i>. Also: \u201cTechnology is bringing about a rethink of the missions of universities, and of business models.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have acknowledged that the developments, the interconnections we have across the globe that bring about collaborations, are at the core of assisting us to have a different view of higher education. We are working far more together, in a closer fashion, than we ever have previously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The high-level policy forum will be one of three major activities around the <a class=\"bluelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unisa.ac.za\/icde2015\/\" target=\"_new\">26th ICDE World Conference<\/a> being held at the mega-resort Sun City, north of Johannesburg, from 14-16 October. There is also the conference itself and the ICDE Presidents\u2019 Summit, which will focus on issues of leadership and governance.<\/p>\n<p>The conference will be hosted by the University of South Africa, or UNISA, under the theme \u201cGrowing capacities for sustainable distance e-learning provision\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.universityworldnews.com\/article.php?story=20150912090319378\">Global policy forum to forge future of online learning &#8211; University World News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-5676'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(5676);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(5676);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(5676);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>University World News did an excellent interview with\u00a0HETL Chief Liaison and HETL Vice President, Professor Mandla Makhanya, Vice-Chancellor of the University of South Africa (UNISA), one of the largest universities in the world: People from across the world have been &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/09\/19\/worth-sharing-global-policy-forum-to-forge-future-of-online-learning-university-world-news\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,9,369,24],"tags":[388,389,57,15],"class_list":["post-5676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-educational-technology","category-higher-education","category-teaching-learning","tag-academia","tag-educational-technology","tag-elearning","tag-higher-education"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-1ty","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6233,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2016\/05\/18\/worth-sharing-what-metrics-dont-tell-us-about-the-way-students-learn\/","url_meta":{"origin":5676,"position":0},"title":"Worth Sharing: What metrics don&#8217;t tell us about the way students learn","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"May 18, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"What metrics don't tell us about the way students learn Dana Ruggiero, Bath Spa University A big push is under way in higher education to measure how students are learning and how good lecturers are at teaching them. 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This is GREAT! I have taken to requiring my students to do reflections (3 Up; 3 Down - Thanks for the great idea,\u00a0Ben Sawyer!) on their work and it has a similar effect. Too often we allow\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Academia&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Academia","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/academia\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5441,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/08\/27\/tech-or-no-tech-in-the-classroom-the-debate-continues\/","url_meta":{"origin":5676,"position":4},"title":"Tech or No Tech in the Classroom? The debate Continues.","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"August 27, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Came across this:\u00a0Why I\u2019m Asking You Not to Use Laptops \u2013 Lingua Franca - Blogs - The Chronicle of Higher Education. I suspect it is because we are starting a new school year that this topic is popping up a lot. 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