future trends 2012seminar

Trendlines from 2012Glimpses of the future of

liberal education-

NITLEDecember 2012

Monthly environmental scan report

Developed + tested through social media

December campus survey

FT reports, April-December 2012

Trendline categories

1. Economics and college finances2. Communities and populations3. Teaching and learning and tech4. Technology ecosystem5. The future of liberal education6. MOOCs7. Scholarship

Economics and college finances

Continued cost/value crisis

The higher education bubble concept

Academic union critiques of online learning

Changes in internships

Crowdsourcing in academia

Communities and populations

Student and parent anxieties about debt and employment

Demographic changes in student body: race, size

Possible intergenerational tensions among faculty

Adjunctification rising Restructuring library staff Data analytics

Teaching and learning and tech

Uses of social media

Uses of Web video

Changes in the LMS world

Blended learning

Learning analytics

Changes in library role

Digital humanities (in classroom)

The rise of the Maker movement

Technology ecosystem

3d printing Ebooks social media The Web

plateau? digital video cloud

computing Apple vs

Google

tablets succeeding laptops

augmented reality

automation and artificial intelligence

the growing mobile world

The future of liberal education

Financial stresses International campuses

and competition Liberal education and/vs

vocational training Liberal arts institutions’

role in K-12 The MOOC challenge

MOOCs

Credit for MOOCs STEM vs humanities Sustainability xMOOC vs cMOOC Liberal arts campuses entering

Scholarship

Open content Possible divide growing

between research and teaching

Changes to the scholarly publication ecosystem

Rise of the digital humanities (as scholarly work)

The library role

To the Web!

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Future Trends survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NITLEFutureTrends

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