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ICDE Global Presidents’ Forum 2025 – Summary Report

This report summarises the discussions and input from the annual ICDE Global Presidents’ Forum, held at the ICDE World Conference in November 2025.

Executive Summary

Close to forty global leaders in Open, Flexible and Distance Learning gathered for the ICDE Global Presidents’ Forum (GPF) in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand in November 2025.

The GPF 2025 addressed the question, Scale and quality: is there a conundrum?

The GPF concluded that there are no quality differences between OFDL and traditional forms of education, and that the distinction across these two is becoming less relevant. Quality needs to be considered in terms of education access, flexibility, reach, and benefits to students and society. As education models tend more towards blended, traditional means of quality measurement will need to adapt in ways that will likely favour OFDL.

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