Trendlines from 2012Glimpses of the future of
liberal education-
NITLEDecember 2012
Monthly environmental scan report
Developed + tested through social media
December campus survey
FT reports, April-December 2012
Trendline categories
1. Economics and college finances2. Communities and populations3. Teaching and learning and tech4. Technology ecosystem5. The future of liberal education6. MOOCs7. Scholarship
Economics and college finances
Continued cost/value crisis
The higher education bubble concept
Academic union critiques of online learning
Changes in internships
Crowdsourcing in academia
Communities and populations
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
Teaching and learning and tech
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
Technology ecosystem
3d printing Ebooks social media The Web
plateau? digital video cloud
computing Apple vs
tablets succeeding laptops
augmented reality
automation and artificial intelligence
the growing mobile world
The future of liberal education
Financial stresses International campuses
and competition Liberal education and/vs
vocational training Liberal arts institutions’
role in K-12 The MOOC challenge
MOOCs
Credit for MOOCs STEM vs humanities Sustainability xMOOC vs cMOOC Liberal arts campuses entering
Scholarship
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
To the Web!
NITLE Future Trends page: http://www.nitle.org/future_trends.php
Future Trends survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NITLEFutureTrends
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