{"id":60601,"date":"2017-09-08T11:50:28","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T15:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=60601"},"modified":"2017-09-08T14:40:30","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T18:40:30","slug":"future-forward-the-next-twenty-years-of-higher-education-blackboard-w-a-variety-of-contributors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2017\/09\/08\/future-forward-the-next-twenty-years-of-higher-education-blackboard-w-a-variety-of-contributors\/","title":{"rendered":"Future Forward: The Next Twenty Years of Higher Education [Blackboard, w\/ a variety of contributors]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackboard.com\/future-forward\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Future Forward: The Next Twenty Years of Higher Education <\/strong><\/a>&#8212; from Blackboard with a variety of contributors<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpts:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As you read their reflections you\u2019ll find several themes emerge over and over:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Our current system is unsustainable and ill-suited for a globally connected world that is constantly changing.<\/li>\n<li>Colleges and universities will have to change their current business model to continue to thrive, boost revenue and drive enrollment.<\/li>\n<li>The \u201csage on the stage\u201d and the \u201cdoc in the box\u201d aren\u2019t sustainable; new technologies will allow faculty to shift their focus on the application of learning rather than the acquisition of knowledge.<\/li>\n<li>Data and the ability to transform that data into action will be the new lifeblood of the institution.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, the heart and soul of any institution are its people. Adopting new technologies is only a small piece of the puzzle; institutions must also work with faculty and staff to change institutional culture.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Some quotes are listed below.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>\u201cWhat\u2019s more, next-generation digital learning environments must bridge the divide between the faculty-directed instructivist model our colleges and universities have always favored and the learner-centric constructivist paradigm their students have come to expect and the economy now demands.\u201d<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>It will be at least 10 years before systems such as this become the standard rather than the exception. Yet to achieve this timeline, we will have to begin fostering a very different campus culture that embraces technology for its experiential value rather than its transactional expediency, while viewing education as a lifelong pursuit rather than a degree-driven activity.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Susan Aldridge<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Q: What are the biggest challenges facing higher education right now?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> <strong>A: I think it is a difficult time for decisionmakers to know how to move boldly forward. It\u2019s almost funny, nobody\u2019s doing five-year strategic plans anymore. We used to do ten-year plans, but now it\u2019s \u201cWhat\u2019s our guiding set of principles and then let\u2019s sort of generally go towards that.\u201d I think it\u2019s really hard to move an entire institution, to know how to keep it sustainable and serving your core student population. Trying to figure out how to keep moving forward is not as simple as it used to be when you hired faculty and they showed up in the classroom. It\u2019s time for a whole new leadership model. I\u2019m not sure what that is, but we have to start reimagining our organizations and our institutions and even our leadership.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Marie Cini<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>One of the things that is frustrating to me is the argument that online learning is just another modality. Online learning is much more than that. It\u2019s arguably the most transformative development since the G.I. Bill and, before that, the establishment of land-grant universities.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>I don\u2019t think we should underestimate the profound impact online education has had and will continue to have on higher education. It\u2019s not just another modality; it\u2019s an entirely new industry.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Robert Hansen<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">And I would add (to Robert&#8217;s quote above) that<strong> not since the printing press was invented close to 500 years ago have we seen such an enormously powerful invention as the Internet. To bypass the Internet and the online-based learning opportunities that it can deliver is to move into a risky, potentially dangerous future.<\/strong> If your institution is doing that, your institution&#8217;s days could be numbered. As we move into the future &#8212; where numerous societies throughout the globe will be full of artificial intelligence, big data, robotics, algorithms, business&#8217; digital transformations, and more &#8212; your institutions&#8217; credibility could easily be at stake in a new, increasingly impactful way. Parents and students will want to know that there&#8217;s a solid ROI for them. They will want to know that a particular college or university has the foundational\/core competencies and skills to prepare the learner for the future that <em>the learner<\/em> will encounter<strong>.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Q: What are the biggest challenges facing higher education right now?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>A: I think the biggest challenge is the stubborn refusal of institutions to acknowledge that the 20th century university paradigm no<\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>longer works, or at least it doesn\u2019t work anymore for the majority of our institutions. I\u2019m not speaking on behalf of our members, <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>but I think it\u2019s fair to say that institutions are still almost entirely faculty-centered and not market-driven. Faculty, like so many university leaders today who come from faculty ranks, are so often ill-equipped to compete in the Wild West that we\u2019re seeing today, and it\u2019s not their fault. They\u2019re trained to be biologists and historians and philosophers and musicians and English professors, and in the past there was very little need to be entrepreneurial. What\u2019s required of university leadership now looks very much like what\u2019s required in the fastpaced world of private industry.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you are tuition dependent and you haven\u2019t figured out how to serve the adult market yet, you\u2019re in trouble.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Robert Hansen<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>It\u2019s not just enough to put something online for autodidacts who already have the time, energy, and prior skills to be able to learn on their <\/strong><strong>own. You really need to figure out how to embed all the supports that a student will need to be successful, and I don\u2019t know if we\u2019ve cracked that yet.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Amy Laitinen<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>The other company is Amazon. Their recent purchase of Whole Foods really surprised everybody. Now you have a massive digital retailer that has made billions staying in the online world going backwards into brick-and-mortar. I think if you look at what you can do on Amazon now, who\u2019s to say in three years or five years, you won\u2019t say, \u201cYou know what, I want to take this class. I want to purchase it through Amazon,\u201d and it\u2019s done through Amazon with their own LMS? Who\u2019s to say they\u2019re not already working on it?<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Justin Louder<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>We are focused on four at Laureate. Probably in an increasing order of excitement to me are game-based learning (or gamification), adaptive learning, augmented and virtual reality, and cognitive tutoring.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Darrell Luzzo<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">I would wave my hand and have people lose their fear of change and recognize that you can innovate and do new things and still stay true to the core mission and values. My hope is that we harness our collective energy to help our students succeed and become fully engaged citizens.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Felice Nudelman<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Future Forward: The Next Twenty Years of Higher Education &#8212; from Blackboard with a variety of contributors Excerpts: As you read their reflections you\u2019ll find several themes emerge over and over: Our current system is unsustainable and ill-suited for a globally connected world that is constantly changing. 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