10 Hottest Disruptive Technologies in Higher Education

1. HOTTEST
DISRUPTIVE
TECHNOLOGIES
IN HIGHER EDUCATION 10

2. 1
Campus Wi-Fi
• Important decision factor
when students select a school
• Only 17% of CIOs rate their
mobile environment as
“Excellent”
• 30% of schools are in the
process of migrating to the
latest Wi-Fi standard, 802.11ac

3. 2
The Importance
of Being Social
• Growing use of live Tweeting
• Send useful content
• Meet your customers where
they are
• Be responsive and positive

4. 3
Digital Badges
• 60% believe badges will
replace diplomas and course
certificates
• Can be displayed on social
media networks and linked to
student profiles
• Provide employers and
recruiters with a better
candidate search tool

5. 4
Analytics
• Student analytics and network
analytics
• The business intelligence and
physician diagnostics of the
education world

6. 5
Google Glass
and Wearables
• Lectures in-person and live-streamed
• Interactive remote field trips
• Self-guided campus tours
• For more, see “14 Google Glass
Innovative Uses in Education”

7. 6
Drones
• Campus tours
• Inspections of buildings
• Courses on drones
• Capture sporting events
• For more see “10 Uses of
Drones in Higher Education”

8. 7
3D Printing
• Enhances hands-on learning
• Consumer market is driving
down prices
• For art, design, and
engineering
• Paired with 3D scanning

9. 8
Digital
Courseware
• Competency-based education
• Adaptive learning
• Enables personalized
education

10. 9
Small Private
Online Courses
(SPOCs)
• MOOCs have lost the limelight
• Much better completion rates
than MOOCs
• Technological core for online
classes

11. 10
Virtual Reality
• Immersive and augmented
reality
• Student enters a virtual
learning space optimized for
any topic of study
• Remote instructor can join
students in virtual classroom
• Will completely reinvent
education

12. 11
Disruption of
Higher Education
• Unbundling of higher ed
• Modularity
• New providers
• Technological core/
competency-based learning
• Digital badges

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