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Thoughts About Higher Education and IT
JA-SigJune 10, 2003
Putting Portals in Perspective:
The E-Volution of Higher Education
Richard N. Katz EDUCAUSE
An Outline
General propositionsHistory of the worldWhere are we today? Reflections about the future
Proposition # 1
“Events” are increasingly volatile, e.g. the rate of change is increasing. Increasing volatility increases the pressure on everyone to become more adaptable. Colleges and universities are historically adaptable organizations.
“Technology is embedded in, and used by, institutions that have a history… technology will cut its own channels, leading to the creation of institutions that differ from those of today; institutions where the weight of history does not condition and constrain technology’s use.”
Proposition # 2
Martin TrowDaedelus, Fall 1997
“Every jump in connectivity – from clipper ships, to telegraphs, to mobile phones, to Blackberries – has shrunk the globe in space, in time, and in the effort required to support interactions among people, institutions, and ideas.”
Proposition # 3
Christopher Meyer and Stan Davis, It’s Alive
New communications media render some practices valueless. Such practices become obsolete. New media also foster new practices. More interestingly,In some cases, the introduction of new
media herald a return of practices, long in disuse.
Proposition # 4
Marshall McLuhan
Roving Bands Harvard
Morill Act
ENIAC
GI Bill
Open U
Web
Internet
PC
Higher Education’s Evolutionary Journey
Com Colleges
U of Phoenix
Economic and Educational Epochs
MarketPedagogyTechnology
AgrarianStorehouse of
Knowledge
IndustrialCity of
Intellect
Knowledge
E-University
• Tablets• Paper• Scriptorum
• Classrooms• Lecture Halls• Social Spaces
• Portals• Networks• New Media
• Mastership/Apprenticeship• Experiential
• Scale Seeking• Degree Focus• Sage-on-Stage
• Local• Elites
• Provincial• National• “Foreign”
• Personalized• Just-in-Time• Modular
• Intellectual Elites• Niches• Mass Market
Higher Education Trends, 2002
Focus on Learning Unbundling Faculty Free
Agency $’s Follow Students Educational
Passports for All
New Competition Individualization of
Higher Education Bricks & clicks Degrees Wither in
Importance
Arthur Levine, The Future of Colleges: 9 Inevitable Changes, Chronicle of Higher Education, October 2000
So What’s Ahead?
What’s Ahead?: IT Revolutions
Mainframe Computing
1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 2030
Personal Computing
Physical Connectivity
Logical Connectivity
Embedded Connectivity
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What’s Ahead? Six Future Directions
Nimble and Adaptable
Highly Leveraged and Accountable
Embedded Intelligence
What’s Ahead? Six Future Directions
Always On
Personalized
Secure
What’s Ahead?: Educational Revolutions
300 BC
600 AD
1100 AD
2000 AD
2030 AD
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Storehouse of Knowledge
Roving Bands of Faculty
City of Intellect
Holodeck
Roving Bands/Silicon Grove
Are We Near an Inflection Point?
What Wonderful Possibilities
IT is indeed cutting new channels in our tradition-bound institutions. In some cases, these channels will lead to the emergence of new forms, new methods, and even new institutions.
At the same time, IT may lead us to rediscover the wellsprings of our enduring value, to extend this value to more learners on a global basis and to strengthen and renew the bonds that unite the members of a community of learners.