At a time of rapid, systemic change, liberal arts campuses must plan strategically for future success and sustainability. We also must prepare students to succeed in that open-ended future. Join this open discussion of future trends at liberal arts colleges led by NITLE Senior Fellow Bryan Alexander, futurist, researcher, writer, speaker, consultant, teacher, and author of Future Trends in Technology and Education, a monthly report that surveys recent developments in how education is changing, primarily under the impact of digital technologies.

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Overview
Education
Technology
Education
and
technology
Bubble?

3. Monthly
environmental
scan report
Trends
identified,
tested,
projected

8. International students -> US
 “universities building up”
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 Adjunctification rising

9.  Alternative certification
(competency, badges)
 Northeast, midwest youth population and
debt
 US job changes (manufact->service, 1>many, declining
participation, automation)

12.  shared academic services
 executive compensation rising
amid controversy
 challenges to internships
 possible intergenerational
tensions
 library budgets

13. social
augmented
media
digital
video
cloud wars
reality
automation
and artificial
intelligence

14. crowdfunding growing
copyright battles continue
durability of
Moore’s Law
office versus Web office

16. "When we were an agrarian
nation, all cars were trucks
because that's what you needed
on the farms." Cars became more
popular as cities rose, and things
like power steering and
automatic transmission became
popular…

17. "PCs are going to be like trucks," Jobs said. "They
are still going to be around." However, he said,
only "one out of x people will need them."
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-20006526-56.html ; image via Wikipedia

19. PCs getting
crowded out
Mouse and
keyboard
declining
Mobile first
3d printing
mainstreaming
3d tv dying

20. the limits of
the Web
onshoring hardware
production

21. Nicholas Carr, linked http://bryanalexander.org/2013/08/15/have-ebooks-plateaued/

23. blended/flipped classroom
rise of
the net.generation
gaming in education

24.  campus digital security threats
growing
 educational entrepreneurship
 big data and data analytics
develop

25. 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

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

28. Continued cost/value crisis
Student and parent anxieties
about debt and employment
Grad school crises
Bipartisan political pressure

29. College premium persists
Debt closer to car
ownership
Endowments returning,
maybe (11%+ in 2013)

30. Bryan’s thinking
http://bryanalexander.org
Bryan on Twitter
http://twitter.com/BryanAlexander
Bryan’s working
http://bryanalexanderconsulting.com