The 2011-2014 higher education landscape: Seismic shifts, challenges, and pressures

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Workshop delivered to Athabasca University's Faculty of Health Disciplines (Edmonton, Feb 2014). Focuses on online learning strategies, emerging technologies, the current status of higher education and online online education, open scholarship, social media, and what the future of higher education may hold. Part 2: The 2011-2014 higher education landscape: Seismic shifts, challenges, and pressures

The 2011-2014 higher education landscape:
Seismic shifts, challenges, and pressures

George Veletsianos, PhD
Canada Research Chair
Associate Professor
School of Education and Technology

Athabasca University, Faculty of Health Disciplines, Edmonton, Feb 2014

What are your hopes for the future of
higher education?
What are your concerns?

The Horizon Report Trends

Via Ruben Puentedura as quoted by http://bit.ly/Ma8YrX

Contemporary universities are facing
numerous powerful forces that may
shape their future.

a worldwide
economic downturn
globalization and
competition

purpose of education
- Employment?
Rebirth of edtech

impact of emerging
technologies

changing
demographics

pressures for
accountability

curtailment of public
funding

(Morrison, 2003; Schwier, 2012; Siemens & Matheos, 2010; Spanier, 2010).

Emerging Technologies
•  May or may not be new technologies
•  Evolving, “coming into being”
•  Go through “hype cycles”
•  Not yet fully understood
•  Not yet fully researched
•  Potentially disruptive (but potential is unfulfilled)
(Veletsianos, 2010)

Higher Education in 2011-2014:
Sense of urgency. And tension.
The case of FutureLearn

Techno-enthusiasm & technodeterminism* dominate
e.g., Technology will ____________
Narratives of disruption & revolution
(*skeptics are not the same as naysayers)

At times, it feels like déjà vu with a
dose of more of the same…

“Motion picture is destined to revolutionize our education
system …in a few years it will supplant largely, if not entirely,
the use of textbooks”

“Education over the Internet is going to be so big it is going
to make e-mail usage look like a rounding error”

“Strong
pressures
to
produce
mediocre

instruc1onal
products
based
on
templates

and
preexis,ng
content.”

Wilson,
Parrish,
&
Veletsianos,
2008

“Examples
of

outstanding
[online]
instruc1on

are
hard
to
ﬁnd.”

Wilson, Parrish, & Veletsianos, 2008

“Whether the practice is called
outsourcing, contracting out, or
privatizing, the impact is the
same. Food services, health
care, the bookstore…endless
array of activities that
universities used to manage…”

Kirp,
.L
(2003).
Shakespeare,
Einstein,
and
the
Bo3om
Line:
The
Marke9ng
of
Higher
Educa9on.

Cambridge,
MA:
Harvard
University
Press

But where does it stop? Are there institutional core
functions that should be safeguarded?

The role of the faculty member
The roles of instructional designers,
tutors, instructors

Course assistants
Teaching assistants

Academic Advisor,
Mentor, Coach
Instructor/Instructional
Technologist
Professor/Instructional
Designer

“academic freedom,
shared governance,
a livable wage,
greater job security
for non-tenure-track
faculty
teaching and
scholarship cannot be
fully unbundled…”

Data Analytics. Big Data.
The “new science of learning”
“Adaptive, personalized, granular
learning”

Open Practices
Open Education  Open Scholarship

In closing

Myth: Classrooms are the same today
as they were hundreds of years ago.
The reality: Educational institutions are
always evolving and reflect the
societies which house them.
What does our society look like? That’s
what our institutions will look like.

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