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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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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…
Blueprint for Change in an Era of Rapid Reinvention - Sponsored by Higher One
November 8, 2012 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference 2012

Nations face an educational imperative: Educate more people, better, faster, and with higher quality. But a single model will not suffice. Education is a complex, adaptive system involving learne…

Bob Heterick Memorial Lecture - If Not Now, When?
February 13, 2012 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative 2012 Annual Meeting

The challenges facing American education are formidable and seem to call for change more radical than incremental. For more than two decades technology has been "on the verge" of transfor…

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…

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…
DIY U: Edupunks and the Future of Higher Education
October 19, 2011 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2011 Annual Conference

Open content, blended learning, prior learning assessment, and personal learning networks and paths are all shaping the future of higher education. The common threads are technology, social media, …

Further Faster: The Role of Technology Leaders in the College Completion Agenda
October 13, 2010 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2010 Annual Conference

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Postsecondary Success Initiative focuses on doubling the numbers of low-income students who complete college. Our long-term vision is a nation where all stud…

Gathering Evidence to Make an Impact: How Less Can Be More
February 15, 2011 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2011

Gathering evidence on the effectiveness of current practice and innovations is necessary but of limited value if it does not also make an impact. Far too often, effective programs wither and die, a…

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