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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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Clearing the Clouds, or Clouding Over? A Conversation with Roger Bruszewski and Joanne Kossuth
October 19, 2011 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2011 Annual Conference

Join an engaging conversation and share the perspectives of a CFO and a CIO on a wide array of topics in the cloud. Updates to the work of the Aggregation Task Force, occurring in both NACUBO and E…

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, …

The Impact of Globalization and the Future University
May 31, 2011

John J. DeGioia is President of Georgetown University. Comments on this article can be posted to the web via the link at the bottom of this page. "Globalization should be…
The Future of Mobile Computing
April 25, 2011

Mobile Computing: A 5 Day Sprint—Monday, April 25 From staying one step ahead of emerging and evolving platforms to determining the best apps for learning, few concepts dominate the …
Facing Education’s Mounting Challenges with Collaboration and IT
April 12, 2011

This ECAR research bulletin offers higher education executives and their IT leaders reasons and recipes for joining together to decrease the lag time from technological to organizational innovat…
Future of Higher Education
March 29, 2011

What does the future hold for higher education? How is American academia changing under the impact of continuous technological transformation? In these quarterly columns I will explore several…
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…
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…
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…

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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