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Higher education's purpose is to equip students for success in life -- in the workplace, in communities, and their personal lives. While this purpose may have remained constant for centuries, the world around colleges and universities is undergoing significant change. Higher education is under pressure to meet greater expectations, whether for student numbers, educational preparation, workforce needs, or economic development. Meanwhile, the resources available are likely to decline. New models, an intense focus on the student experience, and a drive for innovation and entrepreneurism will ensure that higher education continues to meet society's needs. Information technology supports virtually every aspect of higher education, including finances, learning, research, security, and sustainability, and IT professionals need to understand the range of problems their institutions face so they apply IT where it brings greatest value. Creating this future will require collaboration across organizational and national boundaries, bringing together the collective intelligence of people from backgrounds including education, corporations, and government.

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  • IT-Based Transformation in Higher Education: Possibilities and Prospects, Greg Jackson, EDUCAUSE, March 2012. A Discussion of how achieving both greater efficiency and better outcomes in higher education through information technology requires a commitment to fundamental, unfettered thinking about the future both within and outside current institutions—the kind of process many institutions are beginning to undertake.
  • Rethinking Higher Education Business Models, Robert Sheets, Stephen Crawford,and Louis Soares. Center for American Progress. March 2012.
  • Innovating the 21st-Century University: It’s Time!, EDUCAUSE Review, Volume 45, Number 1, 2010. If colleges and universities open up and embrace collaborative learning and collaborative knowledge production, they have a chance of surviving and even thriving in the networked, global economy of the future.
  • The Changing Landscape of Higher Education, EDUCAUSE Review, Volume 46, Number 1, 2011. Focusing strictly on technology trends can obscure other environmental factors that are drivers for innovation in higher education. The authors identify ten fissures in the landscape that are creating areas of potentially tectonic change.

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"Someone is going to write the software that eats higher education"
September 5, 2012

Kevin Carey, director of the New America Foundation’s education policy program and previously policy director at Education Sector, has actively engaged in the debates around the potential of te…
A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change
March 21, 2011

In A New Culture of Learning , Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown explore a second sense of culture, one that not only adapts but integrates change into its process as an environmental va…
Analytics Today: Getting Smarter About Emerging Technology, Diverse Students, and the Completion Challenge
October 19, 2011 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2011 Annual Conference

The road ahead is set to include increasing use of blended learning, mobile learning, gaming, personal learning networks, augmented reality, and much more. If we want these technology "power t…

Beyond the Campus: The Future of Higher Education
September 13, 2010

Worldwide changes catalyzed by information technology are changing our traditional notions of what the future of higher education will be. The "digital age" offers new opportunities, su…
Chapter 10: University of Phoenix
May 2, 2012

A chapter from Game Changers William (Bill) Pepicello Introduction The University of Phoenix was founded in 1976 on the principle that a large number of people wished to earn a d…
Chronicle Tech Trends: Challenges for the Future "Unbundled" University
October 20, 2011 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2011 Annual Conference

Technology is "unbundling" the university. In five years, students will mix online and in-person courses, professors will rely on new course formats and modules from multiple colleges, an…

Congressman, Panelists Discuss E-Learning Present and Future
September 29, 2011

The Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities (APSCU) and the University Professional and Continuing Education Association (UPCEA) hosted a forum last week at the National Press Cl…
Democratizing Higher Education
October 11, 2012

In this keynote session from The Sloan Consortium Conference , Sebastian Thrun discusses his venture into MOOCs. In 2011, Thrun took his Stanford graduate level class online, and 160,000 stude…
Digital Texts and the Future of Education: Why Books?
March 29, 2011

Key Takeaways Students have expectations for interactivity and connectedness when they use digital devices, yet these expectations are frequently unmet when using most digital tex…
Disrupting College
February 9, 2011

A new report discusses how disruptive innovation can deliver quality and affordability to postsecondary education. A new report discusses how d…

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