Technology Forecasting

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Technology Forecasting

Will the Last One to Leave Turn Out the Lights?

October 30, 2008 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2008 Annual Conference

Does IT matter? Nicholas Carr sent shockwaves through the IT community by claiming IT is a commodity that rarely provides a distinct competitive advantage. Is this true? Now Carr argues that comput…

Fostering Learning in the Networked World: The Cyberlearning Opportunity and Challenge

October 29, 2008 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2008 Annual Conference

Imagine a freshman college student in the year 2015. She has grown up in a world where learning is as accessible through technologies at home as it is in the classroom, and digital content is as re…

School of Athens or Mr. Ford's Factory: IT and the Future of Higher Education

March 12, 2007 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference 2007

For a millennium, universities have worked to preserve a highly personal and labor-intensive apprenticeship technique while opening their doors to ever more learners. IT is used to supplement this …

Uncovering the Science in Computer Science: Challenges for the 21st Century

October 10, 2006 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2006 Annual Conference

Progress on the hardware side of computer engineering has been impressive, but software has lagged behind. Security continues to be troublesome at the operating system level, network level, and var…

You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet

January 1, 2006

© 2006 George Strawn. The text of this article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ ). EDUCAUSE Review, vol…

An Eye to the Future with a Brief Look Back at the Past

January 1, 2005

As we look forward and plan for the future, it is useful to review where we have been, as well as to highlight some of the processes and decisions in the higher education IT community that have w…

An Eye to the Future with a Brief Look Back at the Past

October 20, 2005 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2005 Annual Conference

As we look forward and plan for the future, it is useful to review where we have been, to highlight some of the processes and decisions in the higher education IT community that have worked well, a…

Change: The Constant of Modern Times

August 10, 2005

It has been argued that there has been more change in the past 200 years than in the previous 5,000. One of today's biggest change agents is information technology. This big-picture rumination…

Creating and Sustaining Technical Innovation

August 8, 2005

By definition, sustaining innovation is not an event but rather a principle and a process. Those who sustain technological innovation over time do so by vision and commitment, and their institution…

Higher Education Alert: The Information Railroad Is Coming

January 1, 2002

Willam. A. Wulf points out that although the exponential pace of technological change cannot go on forever, the slowdown is not on the horizon and is not going to spare us from rethinking the unive…