An European strategy in the Age of knowledge-based society: Building New

knowledge network between Traditional and Distance Teaching Universities. New

Content on Internet for the Global Job Market.

Maria Amata Garito, President and Rector, Università Telematica Internazionale UNINETTUNO garito@uninettuno.it

In 2016, according to Cisco Systems, will be 10

billion mobile devices connected on Internet

compared to UN world population estimated at

about 7.3 billion of people. This means that, on

average, each person will have more than one

device connected to Internet.

Harvard, Stanford, M.I.T. are already demolishing

their walls and barriers going online.

Now with the "virtual classroom”

people of different cultures and languages compare

themselves and interact without boundaries and limits,

student takes an active role and become a builder of

new knowledge by means of collaborative dimension of

learning.

University systems should be able to develop an educational space "intra muros” and "extra muros”

Today teaching and learning spaces are open and everywhere

The Value of the e-learning market today is

around 91 bilion dollars.

In 2018 will reach around 168.8 bilion dollars.

In the United States

the number of students enrolled at

least one course on line

- 2009: 5.5 million

- 2010: 6.1 million

- 2011: 6.7 million

In the European Union in 2011 the e-learning

market has an annual growth rate of 5.8%

from 6.1 billion dollars in 2011 to the expected 8.1

billion dollars of 2016

By 2016 will have approximately 3 million

students enrolled in online courses

1. Exchange of educational content;

2. Co-creation of educational content;

3. The Consortium for collaborative learning

University in the XXI century should be increasingly

characterized as a global network, an ecosystem, it should

make deep and structural changes, and it should include

three stages of level:

The University in the knowledge society is facing a crossroad:

between stagnation and renewal,

between atrophy and the Renaissance.

“….how do you evaluate the work of 100.000 students if you do not have 10.000 tutors? The answer is, you need to use technology to do it for you. And the solution we ended up using is peer evaluation…..”

Daphne Koller, founder of Coursera during a TED speech

MOOCs or online videolessons are not replacing universities as such. There are many deficiencies in pedagogical-didactic models and in evaluation systems of on line courses

L’Université médiévale

In the medieval Universities, the curricula were common, students did not belong to a single University, but they could attend the courses of all the existing Universities.

In order to attend the lessons of the best professors they moved from one location to another, facing exhausting journeys on foot or horseback to follow a law course at

the University of Bologna or a theology course at the University of Paris.

What scenarios for Europe and for the new knowledge markets?

Jacques Delors, former President of the European Union, "Growth,

Competitiveness and Employment - The challenges and ways forward into

the twenty-first century"; in the 1993 Delors proposed EU member countries

to build a new competitive and inclusive economy, based for its growth on

"human capital, the main resource for all forms of development."

There is the Europe of the economy but not the Europe of

universities

Each European country continues to legislate on University topics at the national

level while the world moves globally

A strategy for EADTU to create an alliance between European traditional and distance Universities, in order to create a new model of European University

No Clones

No macdonaldisation

Distance University today allows to innovate traditional

universities and make them move under open skies, with no

boundaries, creating new knowledge, but also new values.

MERCI !