PRIVATE HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE EDUCATIONAL INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM Stéphan Vincent-Lancrin Senior Analyst and Project Leader Directorate for Education and Skills

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Is private higher education playing a different role?

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Source: OECD (Scoreboard on Innovation in Education), based on REFLEX and HEGESCO data

Is there more innovation in private

higher education?

• More affluent than public institutions and less constrained by access to finance = more able to innovate?

• More need to innovate to meet (and create) the demand (competition) = innovation in the supply of educational programmes?

• More responsive to the needs of its students (market pressure) = innovation in pedagogy?

• Less subject to central regulation and public administration rules = mor organisational innovation?

Innovation in

education

Technology

School organisation

System organisation

Research and

Development

Does public regulation and other system-

related conditions make it difficult to innovate?

• Does local (and sometimes global) accountability and accreditation mechanisms allow for (enough) innovation?

• Does market competition lead them to adopt quickly innovations?

• Is there a market standard that make it difficult for them to innovate?

• Are they meeting a different demand rather than meeting the same demand innovatively?

Innovation in

education

Technology

School organisation

System organisation

Research and

Development

Organisational and pedagogic

innovation

• Is there more research/attention on quality teaching in the private higher education sector?

• If yes, how does it translate into the curriculum and used pedagogies?

• How does it change the faculty and organisational culture of innovation?

• Where are the organisational innovations located? – Delivery methods?

– Staff profile/contracts?

– Admission?

– Financing?

– Governance?

– Internatinoalisation?

Innovation in

education

Technology

School organisation

System organisation

Research and

Development

Technology-driven innovation

• Is technology more mainstreamed in private institutions?

• What is the prevalence of e-learning in the teaching? For what uses?

• Do MOOCs and Open Educational Resources threaten the models of some segments of the private sector?

• Is there a more intensive use of data analytics in the private HE sector?

• How is it used to meet the demand of « non traditional » students?

Innovation in

education

Technology

School organisation

System organisation

Research and

Development

Seminar’s transversal question

• How much innovation is there in the private HE sector?

• What do they look like? Are there promising practices that are unique to the private sector?

• What are the mechanisms to ensure that these innovative practices can inspire the overall HE sector?

Innovation in

education

Technology

School organisation

System organisation

Research and

Development

Stephan.Vincent-Lancrin@oecd.org

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