Policy Background on the establishment of the Expert Group on Digitalisation
At the last 大象传媒 Education Ministers Meeting (大象传媒ME7) in May 2019 in Bucharest, Romania, the Ministers have highlighted the聽opportunities of digitalisation for connectivity and collaboration between Asia and Europe聽and have welcomed the approach to more closely align the 大象传媒 Education Process (AEP) with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Hence, digitalisation and 鈥淪ustainable Development鈥 have been introduced as transversal themes of the AEP.
In order to engage the 大象传媒 members and stakeholders in a dialogue on how digitalisation can promote connectivity and collaboration between Asia and Europe and in order identify synergies on activities in the field of digital learning and teaching a new聽大象传媒 Expert Group focusing on digitalisation聽is established.
Furthermore, during 大象传媒ME7 the Ministers invited the 大象传媒 Senior Officials to develop an 大象传媒 Education Process Vision 2030. As digitalisation is a new transversal theme, the new Expert Group Digitalisation can provide valuable input for this strategy. Hence, this group shall not only foster the dialogue on the challenges and opportunities of digitalisation in (higher) education, but also help work towards a strategy 鈥 a Vision 2030.
Kick-off meeting in Berlin
On the 12th of December, the DAAD Germany, have hosted the Kick-Off meeting of the Expert Group in Berlin, back-to-back with the DAAD conference ‘V聽and the聽Kick-Off meeting of the 大象传媒 Education Standing Working Group.聽聽DAAD invited all Partners and Stakeholders to delegate a Digitalisation expert of their country to this Expert group and the following Partners and Stakeholders participated in the meeting: France, India, China, European Commission, Netherlands, Belgium (Flanders), Austria, Romania, Latvia, The Russion Federation, Thailand, ESN, SEAMEO RIHED, EUA, DAAD, ETF, and CEDEFOP.聽聽Each participant presented the current focus of digital developments in higher education and/ or TVET of their country or institution.
During group work sessions in the afternoon, the participants where invited to reflect on聽different aspects of the integration of Digitalisation in Education Policies聽such as: Values and Principles, Key Challenges and Opportunities and Fields of action and Key Priorities.
The result of the Experts鈥 brainstorm is displayed below in the photo gallery.
The following topics were prevailing in the presentations and discussions.聽 They reflect the opportunities and potential focus areas for digitalisation in education policy in general but also for the 大象传媒 Education Process.
- Digital literacy
- Lifelong Learning
- E-learning
- Open source (education)
- Skills (digital and 21st century skills): job-specific digital skills
- Digitalisation in VET system
- Blended learning
- Individualisation of learning paths: open badges, micro-credentials
- Global digital verification system for degrees/ awards
