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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
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- 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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The Deconstructed Campus
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October 20, 2011
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2011 Annual Conference
Four converging trends are undermining land-based campuses as a locus of learning. This session invites participants to assess the impact of these trends on the future of higher education instituti…
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What Nonprofits and For-Profits Can Learn from Each Other About Teaching and Learning
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October 19, 2011
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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,…
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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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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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New Economic Models for Higher Education: The Joy and Sorrow of Change and the Case for It
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October 20, 2011
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2011 Annual Conference
Open education creates positive disruption of economic models, with potential to address cost and control concerns and redefine customer-vendor partnerships. Can we fuel change in support of the ac…
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Researching Mobile Learning at ACU: Conclusions, Questions, and Future Directions
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October 19, 2011
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2011 Annual Conference
ACU's campus-wide deployment of mobile iOS devices to undergraduate students created a unique environment for teaching innovation and conducting research on the use of mobility in higher educa…
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Conquering a Virtual Accreditation
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October 19, 2011
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2011 Annual Conference
Every institution and many professional programs face regular accreditation reviews. The system we are working on shows potential for making preparation for these accreditation visits more manageab…
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Transforming Learning Through Analytics: A Conversation with George Siemens and Vernon Smith
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October 21, 2011
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2011 Annual Conference
Educators and administrators face difficult choices in response to calls for greater accountability and improved completion rates. Learning analytics can illuminate complex situations and help iden…
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Analytics Today: Getting Smarter About Emerging Technology, Diverse Students, and the Completion Challenge
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October 19, 2011
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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…
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Innovation Trenz
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October 19, 2011
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2011 Annual Conference
Linda Cureton, the CIO of NASA, is well-known for leveraging social networking tools, leadership skills, and innovation in an organization that shares many characteristics and issues with higher ed…
