The document discusses topics from the 2014 NMC Horizon Report on higher education, including challenges, trends, and technologies that will impact colleges and universities over the next five years. Solvable challenges include low digital fluency among faculty and a lack of rewards for teaching. Difficult challenges include competition from new education models and scaling teaching innovations. Wicked challenges include expanding access to education and keeping education relevant. Near-term trends involve the growth of social media and new forms of learning. Mid-term trends include the shift to student-driven learning and assessment. Far-term trends are self-tracking and virtual assistants.

1. Topicsfrom the NMC HorizonReport> 2014 HigherEducationEdition
SOLVABLE
> Low Digital Fluency
of Faculty
> Relative Lack of
Rewards for Teaching
CHALLENGE
S
DIFFICULT
> Competition from
New Models of
Education
> Scaling Teaching
Innovations
WICKED
> Expanding Access
> Keeping Education
Relevant
trends
Short-
term
MID-
term
long-
term
> Growing Ubiquity of Social Media
> Integration of Online, Hybrid, and
Collaborative Learning
> Rise of Data-Driven Learning and
Assessment
> Shift from Students as Consumers to
Students as Creators
> Agile Approaches to
Change
> Evolution of Online
Learning
2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
NEAR TERM
1 year or less
> Flipped Classroom
> Learning Analytics
MID TERM
2-3 years
> 3D Printing 40
> Games and
Gamification
FAR TERM
4-5 years
> Quantified Self44
> Virtual Assistants
technologi
es