The document discusses various topics related to emerging technologies and their potential impact on higher education, including online and hybrid learning models, challenges to traditional education, shifts toward more active learning, and difficulties in evaluating new forms of scholarship. Key methods of exploration mentioned are environmental scanning, interviews, literature reviews, and brainstorming potential applications. Iteration and ranking of ideas are emphasized.
6. iPhone Apps Store downloads
1. April 2009 1.0 billion
2. July 2009 1.5 billion
3. Sept 2009 2.0 billion
4. Dec 2009 …?
-works with data sources
-can lead to more data-gathering, metrics
14. Is there a higher Scholarly
education bubble? publication
Digital humanities and/versus open
on the rise access
Adjunctification Higher education
continues budgets
Alternative online Computer
learning hardware ecology
Textbooks going Has the World
ebook+ Wide Web hit its
limit?
January-Feb 2012 scan sample
15. Augmented reality International
mainstreamed liberal education
Social organization Maker culture on
through social campus
media High-speed trading
Some tuition Global economic
freezes, cuts stresses
Intergenerational Rise of natural gas
tensions: public +
private
March 2012 scan sample
16. unconferences bipartisan .edu
reform
MOOCs reaching to
K-12
social media: growth ebooks
or plateau? Google Books lost a
new certifications legal round
seniors online: rapid publication for
majority contemporary issues
academic unions vs connects publication
lecture capture to student assessment
3d printing in etextbook DRM
browser patent
June 2012 scan sample
23. Stories about futures Roles and times
Event and response Emergent practices and
Creativity patterns
24. Build upon other methods:
Select drivers – environmental
scan
Identify trends – Delphi reports
Test trends - extrapolation
Test propositions – prediction
markets
25. Assemble
experts
Probe for
opinions
Rank and
distill ideas
Reiterate
26.
27. “[A] comprehensive review and analysis of
research, articles, papers, blogs, and
interviews
[We] discussed existing applications and
brainstormed new ones.
A key criterion was the potential relevance
of the topics to teaching, learning,
research, and creative expression.
Iteration, ranking, reiteration, reranking”
35. People expect to be able
to work, learn, and
study whenever and
wherever they want to.
36. The technologies we
use are increasingly
cloud-based, and our
notions of IT support
are decentralized.
37. The world of work is
increasingly
collaborative,
driving changes in the
way student projects are
structured.
38. The abundance of
resources and
relationships made easily
accessible via the Internet
is increasingly challenging
us to revisit our roles as
educators.
45. New modes of scholarship
are presenting significant
challenges for libraries and
university collections, how
scholarship is documented,
and the business models to
support these activities.
46. Openness--concepts like open
content, open data, and open
resources, along with notions of
transparency and easy access to
data and information--is moving
from a trend to a value for much of
the world.
47. There is a rise in informal
learning as individual
needs are redefining
schools, universities, and
training.