The document discusses trends in higher education and predictions about the future of universities. It predicts that universities will have more online elements and blended learning to help streamline costs and increase accessibility. It also predicts that students will seek a more vocational education and use online courses to complete degrees more efficiently. It discusses the rise of "education hackers" who rebel against the traditional college experience and rising costs, as well as innovations like competency-based education and the growing consumer expectations and demands of students.

1. The Future of Education
Rachael Sacks
Analyzing Trends Fall 2013

2. The Future of… Higher Education
Hypothesis: The classroom and traditional academy format of Universities will
change to having a decent percentage of an online element to a degree. The
classroom as we know it with the professor lecturing at the front will cease to
exist as it is now as Universities attempt to streamline faculty and budget .
They will have to put in money to reformatting classrooms and updating
facilities but it will pay off with enrollment. Students looking to get life
experience and use college as more of a vocational school will take more
online and dynamic session courses to achieve their degrees more efficiently.
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3. Globalization
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4. SUBCULTURE: “EDUCATION HACKERS”
Rebellion against college
experience because it is
expected by parents as
well as just too expensive
post-recession.
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5. RESPONSE: THIEL FELLOWSHIPS
The Thiel Fellowship (originally
named 20 under 20) is a
fellowship created by The Peter
Thiel Foundation. The fellowship
is intended for students under
the age
of 20 and offers them a total of
$100,000 over two years as well
as guidance and other resources
to drop out of school and pursue
other work, which could involve
scientific research, creating a
startup, or working on a social
movement. Selection for the
fellowship is through a
competitive annual process, with
about 20-25 fellows selected
annually.
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6. Increased Incentives for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
The Intel Global Challenge a Collaboration with University of California
Berkeley, promotes entrepreneurship predominantly in developing countries.
The competition, held annually at the Haas School of Business, hosts teams
from around the world and showcases business opportunities that have the
greatest potential for a positive impact on society through the deployment of
new and innovative technologies.
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8. Force of Change:
The Economic Recession
The recession changed who attends College and
when and how.
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9. Response to Recession:
Working Adults Need More Degrees
Rise in for-profit Universities and
creation of MOOCs
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10. Introduction of COMPETENCY-BASED EDUCATION

11. : Universities
as Corporations
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12. CONSUMER STUDENTS
“We deal with students who expect a climbing wall to be available in the gym.
They certainly have huge expectations for the information technology we will
provide to them. We are facing some real questions about whether we can afford
to meet all of these consumer demands”. –Joel M.Smith Provost and CIO at
Carnegie Mellon University
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13. Prediction: Increasingly Luxurious
Dorms and Facilities
A 2006 study published by the Association of Higher Education Facilities Officers found
that “poorly maintained or inadequate residential facilities” was the number-one
reason students rejected enrolling at institutions.
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14. Client:
New School University
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15. Founded in 1919 as “The University in Exile” the New School has always sought to be
progressive and innovative in Higher Education.
It’s ahead of its time with its “student directed curriculum” which
seems to be more and more where higher education is headed.
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16. The Progressive seminar format of classes at Eugene Lang College could benefit
from the dynamically designed seating I brought up earlier. This is another example
of an alternative classroom.
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17. Change of Calendar to quarters or increase sessions
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18. As a response to the demands for newer and better facilities the New School has built
the University Center which will be completed in January 2014.
“Challenges the Status Quo” –New School Official Website
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19. Establishing Series of MOOC’s and expanding online learning
The New School has yet to establish itself as a well known producer of
online content and it should. There are online course offerings but they
are very limited.
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20. The University Center is meant to stir up activity and greeting and
conversation keeping human interaction a part of University Life just as it
seems students may never have to interact with another human again.
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