![Society – Vocational focus for learning
• “Now, this model of liberal arts education is under threat.
Students come to college hell-bent on learning
something that will make them employable.”
• “This is an understandable response to the economic
uncertainties of our age, and to the extraordinary cost of
an education […].”
• “Whether eighteen-year-olds are experiencing this
economic anxiety themselves, or whether it is being
hammered into them by their parents, I don’t know.”
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![Society - Mature Enterprise Syndrome
• “…American higher education has become what,
in the business world, would be called a mature
enterprise: increasingly risk averse, at times self-
satisfied, and unduly expensive.”
• “Without serious self-examination and reform,
institutions of higher education risk falling into the
same trap [as other failed industries], seeing
their market share substantially reduced and
their services increasingly characterized by
obsolescence.”
Spellings Report.
US Department of
Education. 2006
http://bit.ly/SpellingsReport
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![Technology - Gamification
• Gamification in pedagogy (5-10 years)
– “Gamification can motivate students to engage in the
classroom, give teachers better tools to guide and reward
students, and get students to bring their full selves to the
pursuit of learning.”
– “It makes sense to try to utilize [game] concepts to
improve education. But if we want to make lasting
significant changes, we have to reinvent the whole
system.” – Prof. Atsusi Hirumi
http://bit.ly/EduGamification
Lee and Hammer. Academic
Exchange Quarterly. 2011
Firth. Pegasus: The Magazine of the
University of Central Florida. 2015
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![Technology – Analytics
• Learning analytics enabled by more sensors (5-10 years)
– “And newer endeavors […] can alert students to toxic
course combinations and provide an early warnings of
at-risk behavior to faculty, advisers, and the students
themselves.”
Mintz, S. The Future
of Higher Education.
InsideHigherEd.com
http://bit.ly/FutureInsideHighEd
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![Environmental – Climate Change
• “… things will start going haywire in the tropics at
around the year 2020, and in [places further from the
equator] around 2047.”
Eric Zuesse, Huffington Post, about:
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The Future of Higher Education in the Digital Era
The document discusses several trends and technologies that could impact the future of higher education: 1. Emerging technologies like virtual and augmented reality, learning analytics, and artificial intelligence could facilitate new forms of distance learning and personalized education over the next 10-20 years. 2. Job disruption from automation raises questions about how education can prepare students for new types of work and promote equal access to opportunities. 3. Issues like funding, climate change impacts, and the relationship between universities and governments will influence how higher education is structured and delivered politically and economically in the coming decades.
