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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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IT as a Core Academic Competence - Sponsored by Pearson, Platinum Partner
November 7, 2012 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2012 Annual Conference

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…

Rethinking University Models in Light of Technology
November 14, 2012

An event at the National Press Club, "Will US Colleges and Universities Lead or Lag in Education Innovation?" , continued to probe how technology will continue to influence the evolu…
ERO Podcast: Chief of Staff for the Khan Academy, Jessica Yuen
September 5, 2012

In this podcast, we talk with Chief of Staff for the Khan Academy, Jessica Yuen. In our conversation, she discusses the Khan Academy's use of analytics, attitude toward affordability for stu…
"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…
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…
IT-Based Transformation in Higher Education: Possibilities and Prospects
March 19, 2012

If information technologies are to transform higher education, we must exploit opportunities and address problems. At the same time, transformed higher education cannot neglect important dimensi…
Medieval Models, Agrarian Calendars, and 21st-Century Imperatives - Sponsored by Vology
May 30, 2012 | 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…

Imagining the Future of Higher Education
December 15, 2011

Imagine a student heading to college in 2022. How will her campus experience differ from ours? What changes has digital technology made? I have been exploring those questions in this space for…
What Nonprofits and For-Profits Can Learn from Each Other About Teaching and Learning
October 19, 2011 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2011 Annual Conference

Come for a panel discussion with representatives from nonprofit and for-profit institutions on teaching and learning issues where the sectors may learn from each other—with a focus on technology,…

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…

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