Conference Programme
Day One: Saturday, 23 May 2015
09:00 – 09:50 | Opening Ceremony
Chair: Mr Yuan Guiren, Minister of Education of the People’s Republic of China
Speakers:Mayor of the Qingdao Municipal Government
- Provincial Governor of Shandong Provincial Government
- Ms Irina Bokova, Director-General, UNESCO
- State leader of the Government of the People’s Republic of China
10:10 – 10:30 | Keynote Speech: ICT in Education in China
Mr Yuan Guiren, Minister of Education, the People’s Republic of China
10:30 – 12:30 | Education and ICT Leaders Debate: Scenarios and Enablers of ICT-Enhanced Future Education
Presentation by Mr Qian Tang, Assistant Director-General for Education, UNESCO, on the outcome of the Incheon World Education Forum (WEF)
1st Panel
- Mr Wang Duanrui, Chairman, Wei Dong Group, China [download presentation]
- Ms Rupal Shah Hollenbeck, Vice President, Intel China
- Mr Wing Kin Cheung, Global Vice President & General Manager, HP Cloud China
- Mr Majed Ali Hasan Almajed Alnoaimi, Minister of Education, Bahrain
2nd Panel
- Ms Ena Elsa Velázquez Cobiella, Minister of Education, Cuba
- Mr Stanislaus Bernard Lwakabamba, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education, Rwanda
- Mr Andreas Schleicher, Director for the Directorate of Education and Skills, OECD [download presentation]
- Mr Gao Tongqing, Deputy General Manager, China Telecom
14:30 – 16:00 | Plenary Session 1: Effective use of ICT for quality learning
Chair: Mr David Atchoarena, Director, UNESCO
Panellists:
- Mr Bjørn Haugstad, State Secretary, Norway
- Mr Chae Chun Gim, Vice Minister of Education, Korea [download presentation]
- Mr Fernando Figueira Prates, Vice-Minister, Ministry of Education, Uruguay [download presentation]
- Mr Peter Twining Professor, Open University, United Kingdom [download presentation]
16:30 – 18:30 | Breakout session
1.1: Transforming teacher education institutions: Lessons learned from Africa
Chair: Mr Qian Tang, Assistant Director-General for Education, UNESCO [download presentation]
Keynote: Mr Liu Limin, Vice Minister of Education, China
Panellists:
- Mr Hellot Matson Mampouya, Minister of Education, Congo
- Mr Raoul Francois-Xavier Kone, Deputy Private Secretary, Côte d'Ivoire
- Mr Maker Mwangu Famba, Minister of Education, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Mr Anthony Aldinnary Nimely, Deputy Minister, Planning, Research & Development, Liberia
- Ms Katrina Magdalena Himarwa, Minister of Education, Arts and Culture, Namibia
- Ms Anne Kilango Malecela, Deputy Minister, Tanzania
- Ms Jessica Rose Epel Alupo, Minister of Education, Uganda
Presentation: Mr Li Jinsong, CEO of Tang Chinese Education [download presentation]
1.2: Transforming schools: Create open learning environments
Chair: Mr Wang Yanjue, Director General, Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, China
Panellists:
- Mr Chua Chor Huat, Deputy Director, Technologies for Learning Branch, Ministry of Education, Singapore [download presentation]
- Mr Jerome Morrissey, Chief Executive Officer, Global e-School and Communities Initiative (GeSCI) [download presentation]
- Mr Mohamed Jemni, Director of ICT Department, the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO) [download presentation]
- Mr Jia Wei, Deputy Director-General, Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, China
1.3: Transforming learning: Mainstream innovative pedagogies
Chair: Mr Zhan Tao, Director General, Education Management Information Centre, Ministry of Education, China
Co-chair: Ms Jonghwi Park, Programme Specialist, UNESCO
Panellists:
- Ms Rachid Benmokhtar Benabdellah, Minister of Education, Morocco
- Mr Andreas Schleicher, Director for the Directorate of Education and Skills, OECD
- Mr Liu Xiao, President, Changsha Social Work College, China [download presentation]
- Mr Juan Enrique Hinostroza Scheel, Director, Institute for ICT in Education, Chile [download presentation]
- Ms Martina A. Roth, Senior Director Global Strategy, Intel [download presentation]
Day Two: Sunday, 24 May 2015
09:00 – 11:00 | Plenary Session 2: Inclusive and relevant lifelong learning - Ministers’ Roundtable
Chair: Mr Mohamed Sameh Amr, Chairperson of Executive Board of UNESCO
Panellists:
- Mr Du Zhanyuan, Vice Minister of Education, China [download presentation]
- Mr Abdulla Bader Mhareb, Director-General, the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organisation (ALECSO) [download presentation]
- Mr Yannick Glemarec, Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director, UN Women
- Mr Assadullah Hanif Balkhi, Minister of Education, Afghanistan
- Mr Nurul Islam Nahid, Minister of Education, Bangladesh
- Ms Smriti Zubin Irani, Minister of Human Resource Development, India
- Ms Aichatou Bety Habibou Oumani, Minister of Education, Niger
- Mr Enver Mohamed Surty, Deputy Minister of Basic Education, South Africa
- Mr Kihei Maekawa, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Education, Japan
- Mr Veniamin Shaevich Kaganov, Deputy Minister of Education, Russia [download presentation]
11:30 – 13:00 | Breakout Session
2.1: Advancing equity in education
Chair: Francesc Pedró, Chief, UNESCO
Panellists:
- Mr Muhammad Baligh-UR-Rehman, State Minister, Pakistan
- Mr Andrianiaina Paul Rabary, Minister of Education, Madagascar [download presentation]
- Mr Deng Yunfeng, Director-General, Qingdao Municipal Bureau of Education [download presentation]
- Ms Chafica Haddad, Chair of the IFAP Council [download presentation]
Discussant: Mr Im Koch, Secretary of State, Ministry of Education, Cambodia [download presentation]
2.2: Building lifelong learning pathways
Chair: Mr Shyamal Majumdar, Director of UNEVOC, UNESCO
Panellists:
- Mr Luis Jorge Manuel Antonio Ferrao, Minister of Education and Human Development, Mozambique [download presentation]
- Mr Hussein Al Hammadi, Minister of Education, the United Arab Emirates
- Mr Shanan Brett Holm, Chief Technology Officer, the Open Polytechnic of New Zealand
- Mr Sunny Lee, Director, Didactics, Bosch Rexroth, Hong Kong, China [download presentation]
- Mr Yang Zhijian, President, the Open University of China [download presentation]
2.3: Empowering women and girls
Chair: Mr Yannick Glemarec, the Assistant Secretary-General, UN Women
Panellists:
- Ms Patience Stephens, UN Women
- Ms Naana Jane Opoku-Agyeman, Minister of Education, Ghana
- Ms Chitralekha Yadav, Minister of Education, Nepal
- Ms Danièle Castle, Executive Director, International Federation of University Women [download presentation]
Discussant: Ms Inna Romanivna Sovsun, First Deputy Minister of Education and Science, Ukraine
14:30 – 16:00 | Plenary Session 3: Universal Access to Quality Content
Chair: Mr Fengchun Miao, Chief, UNESCO
Panellists:
- Ms Asha Kanwar, President & CEO, the Commonwealth of Learning [download presentation]
- Ms Nawal Ebrahim Al Khater, Assistant Undersecretary, Ministry of Education, Bahrain [download presentation]
- Ms Zeynep Varoglu, Programme Specialist, UNESCO [download presentation]
- Mr Gard Titlestad, Secretary General, International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE) [download presentation]
16:30 – 18:00 | Breakout Session
3.1: Creating and sharing content: OER and digital textbooks
Chair: Ms Asha Kanwar, President & CEO, the Commonwealth of Learning
Panellists:
- Mr Michael Sherwin Browne, Minister of Education, Science & Technology, Antigua
- Ms Jin Sook Kim, Head of Educational Information Division, KERIS, Korea [download presentation]
- Mr Fengchun Miao, Chief, UNESCO [download presentation]
- Mr Yang Zongkai, President, Central China Normal University [download presentation]
3.2: MOOCS and other online learning innovations
Chair: Ms Mariana Patru, Programme Specialist, UNESCO
Panellists:
- Mr Stephen Haggard, author of The Maturing of the MOOC - The UK Government's MOOC Policy Framework Paper, Consultant on Digital Learning, United Kingdom [download presentation]
- Mr Mahendra Reddy, Minister for Education, National Heritage and Culture and Arts, Fiji [download presentation]
- Mr Sun Wei, President, College of Software, Beihang University, China
3.3: Recognition of online learning
Chair: Mr Borhene Chakroun, Chief, UNESCO
Panellists:
- Mr Mansoor Al Awar, Chancellor, Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University, UAE [download presentation]
- Mr Carlos Delgado Kloos, Vice President for Strategy and Digital Education, Universidad Carlos III Madrid, Spain [download presentation]
- Mr Alexander Khoroshilov, Officer-In-Charge, UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education [download presentation]
19:00-21:00 | Cultural show
Day Three: Monday, 25 May 2015
09:00 – 11:00 | Plenary Session 4: Monitoring, Evaluation, and Funding
Chair: Mr Gwang-Jo Kim, Director, UNESCO
Co-chair: Mr Martin Schaaper, Programme Specialist, UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Panellists:
- Mr Peter Wallet, Assistant Programme Specialist, UNESCO Institute for Statistics [download presentation]
- Ms Claire Hu, Director, Corporate Affairs, HP China, Hewlett-Packard Company
- Mr Chen Guoliang, President, Shanghai Academy of Educational Sciences, China
- Mr Dae Joon Hwang, Professor, Korea [download presentation]
11:30 – 11:50 | Qingdao Declaration on ICT in the Post-2015 Education Agenda
Chair: Mr Qian Tang, Assistant Director-General for Education, UNESCO
Presentation: Mr David Atchoarena, Director, UNESCO
11:50-12:40 | Closing Ceremony
Chair: Mr Du Yue, Secretary-General, National Commission for UNESCO, China
- Qingdao Municipal Government
- Provincial Official of Shandong Provincial Government
- Mr Qian Tang, Assistant Director-General for Education, UNESCO
- Mr Du Zhanyuan, Vice Minister of Education, China
- Signing the partnership for the following up action
14:00 – 18:00 | Study visit to local institutions