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Blended learning for quality higher education: selected case studies on implementation from Asia-Pacific Year of publication: 2016 Author: Lim, Cher Ping | Wang Libing Corporate author: UNESCO Bangkok Together with The Education University of Hong Kong, UNESCO Bangkok gathered experts from higher education institutions in the Asia-Pacific region to explore the potential of blended learning, including its impact on the role of teachers, the relationship between teachers and students, and the nature of educational institutions themselves. Issues about the quality of education are at the heart of the Sustainable Development Goals, which were adopted during the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit in September 2015.
Asia-Pacific Spotlight Report on SDG 4 Year of publication: 2019 Corporate author: Asia South Pacific Association for Basic and Adult Education (ASPBAE) ASPBAE believes that civil society must actively engage in the SDG process since we all have a stake in making sure that all the goals and targets are realised by 2030. Drawing on the spotlight reports of various national education coalitions in the Asia-Pacific region, this report is ASPBAE’s modest contribution to present the civil society analysis and perspective in the SDG/SDG 4 progress and implementation. At the same time, it highlights the concerns and aspirations of the most marginalised and excluded groups. In this regard, we urge the United Nations and all Member States to collectively reaffirm the earlier commitment made to reach the furthest behind first, ensuring that no one is left behind by 2030.
Policy brief: rethinking schooling for the 21st century Year of publication: 2018 Corporate author: Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP) Analysing how far the ideals of SDG 4.7 are embodied in policies and curricula across 22 Asian countries, this study establishes benchmarks against which future progress can be assessed. It also argues forcefully that we must redefine the purposes of schooling, addressing the fundamental challenges to efforts to promote peace, sustainability and global citizenship through education.
Rethinking schooling: annual report 2018 Year of publication: 2019 Corporate author: Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP) Calls to gear up schools for the 21st century are ubiquitous today. Some Asian education systems are held up as models for an innovation-led utopian future. Across much of Asia, however, neither the reality of schooling nor the patterns of development with which it is associated give cause for blithe optimism. This study is informed by UNESCO’s commitment to realizing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through educational reform worldwide. Since its inception, UNESCO has championed a humanistic vision of education (UNESCO, 2015)—a vision today encapsulated in SDG 4.7. These ideals need to be strongly restated and defended in an era when educational debate has come to be framed by a narrowly economistic and instrumentalist agenda. Deriving urgent significance from this broader context, the Rethinking Schooling report analyses how far the ideals of SDG 4.7 are embodied in policies and curricula across 22 Asian countries (UNESCO MGIEP, 2017a). The report seeks to develop benchmarks against which future progress can be assessed. It also argues forcefully that the fundamental purposes of schooling need to be reconfigured, if the ideals to which the global community has subscribed are actually to be realized. 