Professor Mark Brown presented on the future of higher education. He discussed how current images show a decline in traditional universities' market share and a rise in online learning. Past predictions underestimated technology's long term impact. The future of higher education is uncertain but it must focus on serving global connections and using new technologies to enable education for change. New online learning models should enhance educational goals rather than replace traditional structures.

1. From Brick to Click:
What is the Future of Higher Education?
Professor Mark Brown
National Institute for Digital Learning
16th November 2015

3. The Future is Global…

4. The Future is Glocal…

8. 42,000 attendees from 134 countries

10. NIDL officially launched 28th November, 2013 by Ruairi Quinn,
Minister for Education and Skills, and Lord David Putnam, Ireland’s
Digital Ambassador.
http://www.dcu.ie/nidl

11. From Brick to Click:
What is the Future of Higher Education?
1. Current images
2. Images from the past
3. Shaping an uncertain future

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13. “An avalanche is coming. It’s hard of course, to
say exactly when. It may be sooner than we think.
Certainly there is no better time than now to seek
to understand what lies ahead for higher education
– and to prepare” (p.8)
Barber, M., Donnelly, K., & Rizvi, S. (2013). An avalanche is coming: Higher education
and the revolution ahead. Institute for Public Policy Research. London.
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18. 2015
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20. In 1976…
89% market share
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25. http://ubyssey.ca/features/information-driveway-moocs-462/
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29. “With the coming of the New Media, the need for
print on paper will rapidly diminish. The day will
soon arrive when the world’s literature will be
available from The Automatic Library at the
mere pressing of a button”
(Uzanne, 1994).
2. Images from the past

30. “With the coming of the New Media, the need for
print on paper will rapidly diminish. The day will
soon arrive when the world’s literature will be
available from The Automatic Library at the
mere pressing of a button”
(Uzanne, 1894).
2. Images from the past

31. “Books will soon be obsolete in public schools.
Scholars will be instructed through the eye. It is
possible to teach every branch of human
knowledge with the motion picture”.
(Thomas Edison, 1913)
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35. Off Campus
in Class
Off Campus
out of Class
On Campus
in Class
Acquisition
Participation
On Campus
out of Class
Physical Virtual
The digital learning ecology…
2. Images from the past

36. Off Campus
in Class
Off Campus
out of Class
On Campus
in Class
Acquisition
Participation
On Campus
out of Class
Physical Virtual
The digital learning ecology…
Leakage
2. Images from the past

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38. “We tend to overestimate the effect of a
technology in the short run and
underestimate the effect in the long
run.”
Amara’s Law
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40. John Pilger reminds us that despite huge
advancements in technology over the last
50 years, the wealth gap between
developed and developing countries has
more than doubled.
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41. The current emphasis on education in change
needs to shift to the language
of education for change
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42. What type of
globally connected societies
do we want our higher
education systems
to serve?
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43. What type of
higher education systems
do we want the use of new
learning technologies
to serve?
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46. November 2015
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47. “It will not be possible to satisfy the
rising demand for Higher Education,
especially in developing countries, by
relying on traditional approaches”
Sir John Daniel
Past President, Commonwealth of Learning
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52. #moocposium2015
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54. Conclusion

55. What is the Future of Higher Education?
Conclusion

56. What is the Future of Higher Education?
Conclusion
A conclusion is the place where you got
tired of thinking or the question is too hard to answer

57. “New models
of online learning
should be in the
service of
big ideas,
not as a big idea
in itself” (adapted from Barnett, 2011).
Conclusion

58. Thank
You!

59. Questions…
“A prudent question is one-half of wisdom”
Francis Bacon
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60. Professor Mark Brown
Director, National Institute for Digital Learning
www.dcu.ie/nidl
mark.brown@dcu.ie
@mbrownz
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