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Faculty & Leadership Development: Global issues and strategies

Global Education First Conference 2013. Faculty & Leadership Development: Global issues and strategies. Kevin Kelly, EdD Director, Wiley Learning Institute. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial - ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Global Education

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Faculty & Leadership Development: Global issues and strategies

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  1. Global Education First Conference 2013 Faculty & Leadership Development: Global issues and strategies Kevin Kelly, EdD Director, Wiley Learning Institute This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike3.0 Unported License.

  2. Global Education First Conference 2013 In which UNESCO region do you live? • Africa • Arab States • Asia/Pacific • Europe &N. America • Latin America& Caribbean

  3. Global Education First Conference 2013 Global Education First Conference Themes: • Improving quality of education globally • Increasing access to education globally • Fostering global citizenship Thought prompt: How do faculty and leadership development play a role in realizing these goals?

  4. Improving Quality - Globally • In 2007 the World Bank and UNESCO launched the Global Initiative for Quality Assurance Capacity (GIQAC) • facilitates global and regional knowledge sharing of good practices; • promotes communication among a diverse set of agencies and professionals; • supports the production of analyses and guidelines; • engenders plans for long-term network sustainability.

  5. Improving Quality - Examples • OECD > Institutional Management in Higher Education • Fostering quality teaching in Higher Ed: Policies and Practices (Sept 2012) • Raise awareness • Develop teachers • Engage students • Teach for leadership • Align policies • Highlight innovation • Assess impact • Catholic University of Portugal • Cape Peninsula Univ. of Tech (South Africa) • The State University of Campinas (Brazil) • VeracruzanaUniversity (Mexico)

  6. Improving Quality - Locally • Connect and share with regional faculty development organizations

  7. Improving Quality - Challenges • “To optimize learning entails an increased sense of responsibility…to achieve learning outcomes and meet educational standards that address growing societal needs.” Thought prompt: What strategies for improving quality of education can you share?

  8. Increasing Access - Global Institute of International Education • Higher Education Capacity Building Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development • Policy development to improve access Global Fund for Women • Leadership training (confidence, self-sufficiency)

  9. Increasing Access - Local • Brazil: Tecnologiada Informação no Desenvolvimentoda Internet Avançada(Information Technology for the Development of the Advanced Internet) • a suiteof interoperable applications for distance learning on the web • will be open-source in nature • will be made available without charge to all interested parties Worldatlas.com

  10. Increasing Access - Challenges • With increased access to higher education comes increased demand for productive employment • Some strategies for increasing access require removing other barriers first (infrastructure, tech) • E.g., India’s college age population in 2020 = 116M • Some access strategies like MOOCs are still largely unproven – hype is bigger than the help indianpanorama.in 116,000,000

  11. Increasing Access - Strategies • Technology • Open educational resources • OpenCourseWare • Cost reduction • Partnerships • UK-India Thought prompt: What strategies for increasing access to education can you share? unesco.org

  12. Fostering Global Citizenship - Global • partners with USAID • manages innovative partnerships that join U.S. colleges and universities with institutions of higher learning in developing nations.

  13. Fostering Global Citizenship - Local • Women Water Engineers Positioned to Offer Solutions in Ethiopia • Institute for Global Citizenship – Macalester College

  14. Fostering Global Citizenship - Challenges • Avoiding one-sided partnerships • Need to promote ALL nations and participants as knowledge producers, not just consumers • Balancing global citizenship with national citizenship, individualism • Balancing global citizenship with other priorities (poverty, water/ food)

  15. Fostering Global Citizenship - Examples • Maastricht University – Globalisation and Development Initiative • University of Georgia - Sustainability Across Curriculum Faculty Development Workshops Thought prompt: What strategies for fostering global citizenship can you share?

  16. What we are doing • Wiley Learning Institute • Quality: Faculty Development Research Roundtables • Access: Free online environment for sharing questions, ideas, projects (forums, ePortfolios) • Global Citizenship: Collaborative research efforts & Partnerships

  17. Global Education First Conference 2013 Global Education First Conference Themes: • Improving quality of education globally • Increasing access to education globally • Fostering global citizenship Thought prompt: How will you use faculty and leadership development to realizing these goals?

  18. Contact information Kevin Kelly, EdD e: kkelly@wiley.com p: 415.782.3174 @KevinKelly0 Wiley Learning Institute @LearnApplyShare www.WileyLearningInstitute.com

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