By Professor Primrose Kurasha; Vice Chancellor; Zimbabwe Open University

� Three concepts dominate

� cost of education; � providing access to

new generations of students

� maintain and improve quality

� THE CHALLENGE IS A

CHANGE IN ONE IMPACTS THE OTHERS.

� Inescapably global and intensely local (Grunberg, 2015)

� the liquid society (Baumann, 2000), � networked society (Castells, 2000), � global village (McLuhan, 1975) or � complex connectivity environment

(Tomlinson, 2002)

� Skills � Knowledge � Competencies � Attitudes � The idea is to address the development of

digital skills and competences at all levels of learning in response to the digital revolution

� Open and innovative education � Pedagogical practices � Fully embracing digital technologies in

teaching and learning � Mainstreaming innovative and active

pedagogies such as interdisciplinary teaching and collaborative methods

� fostering inclusive education

� Taking care of disadvantaged learners

� Taking care of learners with disabilities;

� Increasing synergies between education, research and innovation activities,

� Fostering a sustainable growth perspective � Building on developments in HE, in education

and in schools; � Collaboration and partnerships at national,

regional, continental and global levels

� In ODL, ICT is the driver for systemic change � ICT increase quality and relevance of

education at all levels � Transform teaching and learning through the

innovative use of digital technologies

� Boosting availability and quality of open and digital educational resources

� MOOCs � OERs

� widening higher education access and lowering the costs while maintaining quality

� In Zimbabwe changed lives of many with more than 30 000 graduates

� In Africa, OUT, NOUN, ZOU and UNISA have impacted strongly on the African continent

� Globally, Indira Gandhi National University is the biggest University in the world

� ODL impacted greatly on open access to scientific knowledge