Higher Education Transformation

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Higher Education Transformation

How Disruptive Is Information Technology Really?

April 1, 2013

Judith A. Ramaley is President Emerita and Distinguished Professor of Public Service at Portland State University, President Emerita of Winona State University, and a Senior Scholar with…

Emerging Technologies, Innovation, and Academic Transformation: A Report on the ELI Focus Session

January 31, 2013

On October 2 and 3, 2012, the ELI teaching and learning community gathered for an online focus session on emerging technologies, innovation, and academic transformation . This white paper is…

Breakthrough Models for College Completion: The Next Generation of Models for Higher Education

November 28, 2012

This compilation of Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) grantee profiles illustrates the innovative approaches of 10 new postsecondary degree program designs awarded grants under NGLC&…

Through a Glass, Brightly: IT’s Impact on Higher Education by 2020

August 28, 2012

The ECAR 2012 Symposium, was held June 18–20, 2012, in Boulder, Colorado. This event gave IT and higher education leaders the chance to imagine that the year is 2020 and to speculate about th…

Leading the Student Experience: Super-Convergence of Organisation, Structure and Business Processes

April 27, 2012

This group of case studies from the United Kingdom organization, Leadership Foundation for Higher Education, focuses on the UK higher education student experience.  "The student experience …

A ‘Disruptive’ Look at Competency-Based Education: How the Innovative Use of Technology Will Transform the College Experience

June 7, 2012

This issues brief from Center for American Progress, provides a short primer on competency-based education in postsecondary education. The author then discusses the four elements of disruptive in…

College 2.0: An Entrepreneurial Approach to Reforming Higher Education

June 7, 2012

"College 2.0: An Entrepreneurial Approach to Reforming Higher Education," is a report that was created as part of a Kauffman Foundation retreat in December 2011 that brought together a …

Rethinking Higher Education Business Models

March 28, 2012

Information technology has long been seen as a major key to meeting this challenge, but the results thus far have been disappointing. In this brief, the authors argue that the fault is not with …

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…

Bringing Business Analytics to the College Campus:Using Fiscal Metrics to Steer Innovation in Postsecondary Educations

September 19, 2011

This Center for American Progress and Delta Project report provides an overview of how business analytics could be used to improve the return on investment in higher education instruction. …