2.  Monthly environmental scan report
 Developed + tested through social
media
 December campus survey

4. 1. Economics and college finances
2. Communities and populations
3. Teaching and learning and tech
4. Technology ecosystem
5. The future of liberal education
6. MOOCs
7. Scholarship

6. Continued Academic
cost/value union critiques
crisis of online
learning
The higher
Changes in
education
internships
bubble
Crowdsourcing
concept
in academia

8. 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

10. Uses of social  Learning
media analytics
Uses of Web  Changes in
video library role
 Digital
Changes in the
humanities (in
LMS world classroom)
Blended  The rise of the
learning Maker
movement

12.  3d printing  tablets
 Ebooks succeeding
 social media laptops
 The Web  augmented
plateau? reality
 digital video  automation
 cloud and artificial
computing intelligence
 Apple vs Google  the growing
mobile world

14. Financial stresses
International campuses and
competition
Liberal education and/vs
vocational training
Liberal arts institutions’ role in
K-12
The MOOC challenge

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

18. 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

19.  NITLE Future Trends page:
http://www.nitle.org/future_trend
s.php
 Future Trends survey:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s
/NITLEFutureTrends
 Bryan on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/bryanalexande