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The Annual Report summarises ICDE’s work and impact over the course of 2024.

March 20, 2025

This report summarises the discussions and input from the annual ICDE Global Presidents’ Forum, held in December 2024.

March 14, 2025

The Dubai Declaration on Open Educational Resources (OER) is the result of a comprehensive and collaborative process to advance the implementation of the UNESCO 2019 Recommendation on OER.

February 6, 2025

The 2024 Quality Network report outlines the application of AI in education from various regional perspectives.

January 24, 2025

Explore curated materials about Open Educational Resources (OER), compiled by the ICDE OER Advocacy Committee (OERAC).

November 25, 2024

The Bilbao 2024 Bootcamp gathered 83 academics from 40 institutions across 27 countries, engaging them in hands-on workshops, AI-enhanced tools and interactive sessions, all focused on driving innovation openness, and the future of education.

November 8, 2024

Conference proceedings from the 29th ICDE World Conference, held in San José Costa Rica from 6-10 November 2023. Highlights:

November 7, 2024

This policy report is the outcome of the ICDE Leadership Summit -hosted by Globethics from 5 to 7 June 2024 - under the title: Ethical Leadership in the Age of AI: Rethinking Futures of Education.

September 4, 2024

Find out how ICDE Members International University of Applied Sciences (IU) and LIBF have integrated Syntea, a personal AI tutor, into their students’ learning.

August 9, 2024

The Annual Report summarises ICDE's work and impact over the course of 2023.

April 11, 2024

The 2023 report summarises the ICDE Quality Network’s analysis of quality issues in the field of open, distance and online learning, from each world region.

January 26, 2024

The Annual Report summarises ICDE's work and impact over the course of 2022.

March 24, 2023

This report summarises the suggestions and input from the annual Global Presidents' Forum, held in November 2022.

March 9, 2023

The 2022 report summarises the ICDE Quality Network’s analysis of quality issues in the field of open, distance and online learning, from every world region.

January 20, 2023

This report presents regional perspectives on the challenges and opportunities for the topic of quality within Open, Flexible and Distance learning (OFDL)

September 23, 2022

A summary report from the ICDE Leadership Summit 2022: "Leadership for Ed-Tech oriented innovation in Education", hosted by Korea National Open University.

May 15, 2022

Proceedings from the ICDE Virtual Global Conference Week 2021, a virtual event hosted by the ICDE Secretariat with the theme: "Upskilling and Upscaling for Quality Open, Flexible and Distance Learning".

April 9, 2022

The 2021 report summarises the ICDE Quality Network’s analysis of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic 2020-2021 in accelerating the inclusion of online elements in so many Higher Education institutions in all parts of the world.

March 15, 2022

This paper addresses open educational resources, open science, and open innovation. A proposed framework for Open Innovation is suggested.

March 1, 2022

The ICDE Leadership Summit 2021 explored OFDL leadership’s place in establishing a community and supporting and improving flexibility as a way of developing a resilient education system for the future.

September 4, 2021

In November 2020, Presidents, Vice-Chancellors, Principals, and Rectors of higher education providers gathered for the ICDE Presidents’ Forum 2020 to focus discussions on “Recalibrating educational leadership for resilient education”.

November 30, 2020

This report examines the rationale, employer acceptance, criteria and implementation of ADCs, and makes a series of recommendations for ICDE members.

January 5, 2019

This study analyses how higher education providers across the world are harnessing digitalisation to improve teaching and learning and learner support, and to identify emerging types of practice.

April 5, 2018

This report examines quality models and guidelines from online and open education providers around the world, and makes a series of recommendations for future work.

May 1, 2015

This report examines the ways in which student success can be best supported in open, distance and e-learning programmes, and student drop-out and failure diminished.

April 5, 2015