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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.
Articles and Reports
- The Current and Future State of Higher Education, EDUCAUSE Live!, November 2012.
- Through a Glass, Brightly: IT’s Impact on Higher Education by 2020, ECAR Bulletin, August 2012.
- Information Technology and Tomorrow’s University: A President’s Confessions and Advice. Jolene Koester. EDUCAUSE Review, January/February 2011.
- Open Governance in Higher Education: Extending the Past to the Future. Patrick Masson. EDUCAUSE Review, January/February 2011.
- Much of the EDUCAUSE Review Magazine, Volume 45, Number 2, March/April 2010 issue is devoted to the future of higher education.
- The entire issue of the EDUCAUSE Quarterly Magazine,Volume 33, Number 1, 2010 is largely devoted to anticipating the future of higher education.
- The entire issue of the EDUCAUSE Review Magazine, Volume 45, Number 1, January/February 2010 is largely devoted to innovation and the future of higher education.
- The Future of Higher Education: Beyond the Campus, EDUCAUSE White Paper, January 2010
Podcasts and Videos
- The Future of Mobile Computing. EDUCAUSE Live! April 2011
- Future of Higher Education, Diana Oblinger, Midwest Regional Conference, March 2010.
- The Future of Higher Education: What Is the IT Professionals Role? Linda A. Jorn, James J. Koenig, David W. Dodd, Robert H. McDonald and Melissa Woo, Midwest Regional Conference, March 2010.
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- 2020 Forecast: Creating the Future of Learning, KnowledgeWorks Foundation.
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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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EDUCAUSE Library Items for Future of Higher Education
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As the Future Catches You - Sponsored by NetApp, Silver Partner
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March 26, 2012
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A session at the EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference 2012
The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Join us for an exciting "travelogue" into the future of higher education by exploring the key challenges in the coming decade. Powerf…
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Blueprint for Change in an Era of Rapid Reinvention - Sponsored by Higher One
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November 8, 2012
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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…
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Bob Heterick Memorial Lecture - If Not Now, When?
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February 13, 2012
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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…
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Chronicle Tech Trends: Challenges for the Future "Unbundled" University
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October 20, 2011
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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…
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Education Innovation Clusters: Accelerating Innovation through Interdisciplinary Partnerships
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August 8, 2012
At a time when advances in technology and digital media hold the potential to dramatically reshape the way we approach instruction, assessment, and research, many barriers still continue to slow …
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Enabling and Disrupting Macroforces Affecting the Expanding Education Ecosystem
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October 21, 2011
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2011 Annual Conference
This presentation will offer a big picture introduction of macroforces-not all technical-that impact the expanding educational ecosystem. Based on the 128 higher education responses (of 2,014 total…
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Information Technology, Leadership, and the Future of Higher Education
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November 7, 2012
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A session at the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference 2012
Over the last 30 years, colleagues in information technology have advocated for and led major shifts in the technological underpinnings of learning, teaching, and research. Over the next 30, we w…
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IT as a Core Academic Competence - Sponsored by Pearson, Platinum Partner
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November 7, 2012
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A session at the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference 2012
For half a millennium, paper has been at the center of the academic enterprise, not just conceptually but architecturally, with many campuses arranged with the library at their center. Now, thoug…
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Living with Disruption: News from the Frontlines
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March 9, 2010
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A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2010
Universities today find themselves confronted by a variety of disruptive forces that challenge traditional models of education and scholarly inquiry. At the heart of that disruption are the informa…
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Medieval Models, Agrarian Calendars, and 21st-Century Imperatives - Sponsored by Vology
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May 30, 2012
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A session at the Southeast Regional Conference
In this new century, three forces—declining funding, rising expectations, and rapidly developing technologies—will transform higher education. The loss of public funding has already reshaped th…
