摘要
Introduction For the second consecutive year,education deans and other institutional leaders from around the globe gathered on the campus of East China Normal University(ECNU)for the Global Education Deans Forum(GEDF),October 24–25,2019.Participants came from 10 countries/regions across 5 continents for 2 days of conversations,which included Australia(2),Canada(2),Chinese mainland(8),Hong Kong SAR(2),Ireland(1),Korea(1),Singapore(1),South Africa(1),Spain(2),the United Kingdom(3),and the United States(11).Based on suggestions from 2018 GEDF participants,the focus for conversations was:Increasing the influence of university research on educational policy and practice.Last year’s participants also requested that deans have time to describe promising innovations from their institutions.