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This seminar aimed to:

• Discuss the growth of the private higher education sector and its distinct role in educational innovation
  and in developing the skills of traditional and adult students
• Map innovation in the private higher education sector in both organisational and pedagogical areas
• Provide a forum for higher education institutions to share experiences on their explicit or implicit
  educational innovation strategies

 

 

Seminar documents

 

Workshop presentations

Private higher education in the educational innovation ecosystem
Stéphan Vincent-Lancrin, OECD  

Reducing the gap between higher education and labor needs
Águeda Benito, Universidad Europea de Madrid, Spain

Who is pushing innovation in current higher education?
Juan Carlos Silas, ITESO, Mexico 

The evolving face of private higher education in India 
Shobha Mishra Ghosh, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), India 

The regulators’ response to the growing private sector
John Fielden, CHEMS Consulting, United Kingdom 

Legal and administrative constraints to innovation in universities
Atilla Eris, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey

Governing universities to prepare students for career success
Alfonso Sánchez-Macián, Universidad Nebrija, Spain 

Skills for innovation:what HEIs can do?
José-Ginés Mora, Institute of Education, United Kingdom

Innovation in the creation of new academic products
Solangel Corpeño, Laureate Network Products and Services

Innovative forms of delivery in an online university: MOOCs
José Antonio Díaz, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Spain 

An innovative approach to vocational education in Turkey
Tolga Yazıcı, Plato College of Higher Education, Turkey 

Innovative approaches in the delivery to working adult university students
Tawfiq Rkibi, Universidade Europeia Lisboa, Portugal

Life-long learning and the de-clustering of life
Daniel Torres Mancera, Centro Superior para la Enseñanza Virtual (CSEV), Spain  

New alignments
Gerri Burton, New Learning Ventures, United States

 

Related documents 

Educating Higher Education Students for Innovative Economies: What International Data Tell Us

Promoting Skills for Innovation in Higher Education: A Literature Review on the Effectiveness of Problem-based Learning and of Teaching Behaviours

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