E-learn Weblog of Willem van Valkenburg

Today at the SURF onderwijsdagen VSNU (Association of universities in the Netherlands), Vereniging Hogescholen (association of universities of applied sciences in NL) and SURF presented. The three organisation see many opportunities for digitization in education, but they also see that the pace of adoption should speed up to meet the demands of businesses, students and politics.

In the document they list nine concrete actions grouped by four themes:

• Connection with the labor market
  
  • digital literacy part of core curricula
    
    
• Flexibility of education
  
• investigate the possibilities to make our education programmes more flexible.
  
  
• Smarter and better learning with technology
  
  • Open up towards edtech companies
  • Open sharing of educational resources
  • Towards evidence based educational innovation
  • utilitsation of educational data
    
    
• Create possibilities for innovation
  
  • Direction on shared urgency on educational innovation
  • Accelerate the development of a vision on educational innovation
  • Facilitate professionalisation of teachers

The Dutch version is available on surf.nl/versnellingsagenda, the English version will be published a little later.