By Betty Leask and Hans de Wit. Global social impact is a key feature of the evolution of higher education. Universities have always arguably been both national and international – located in a nation state, but connected in various ways with international communities. But the world of the 21st century is a very different one from that of the 11th century, when the modern university began to evolve in Bologna. Read more...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Trends in education: Facts, Fads and Fiction
Stephen Downes, Nov 26, 2016, Digital trends challenging learning and training in the workplace, Brussels, Belgium
This talk looks at a number of current trends in online learning and sorts then according to their likelihood of success. In general, those that depend on significant human intervention - such as, for example, creating competency definitions - are expected to be failures. More...
By Dan Sommer. How colleges and universities can create a responsive classroom by using data to help courses keep up with changing markets and personalize learning. More...
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Disruption has moved from an infrequent inconvenience to a consistent stream of change that is redefining markets and entire industries. In 2016, we saw the astonishing rise of Pokémon Go, which demonstrated accelerated digital change into areas such as augmented reality (AR). More...
Alan J. Lichtman, l’historien et prof d’université qui a prédit avec succès la victoire de Donald Trump aux élections présidentielles américaines, rempile. Désormais, il parie sur sa destitution. Voir l'article...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. For Tim Cook and Apple, the Future is AR
Emory Craig, Digital Bodies, 2016/10/06
AR stands for 'augmented reality' and it's the idea that we can overlay the real world with digital objects. The first instance of mass-AR is probably Pokemon Go, though people have been trying with things like QR codes for decades, it seems. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. There is no university of the future
Alastair Creelman, The corridor of uncertainty, 2016/11/07
I want to highlight a couple of points from this short article. First, "There is no one model for the future, there will be a wide range of different interpretations from traditional to innovative." This is what was wrong with Sebastian Thrun's prediction that after MOOCs only ten universities would remain. More...
During the Dutch Presidency of the EU, the ministry of Education, Culture and Science organized a conference on the Future of higher education in Amsterdam on March 9th 2016.
Sur le blog Educpros de Jean-Charles Cailliez. De quoi sera fait demain ? Quel futur nous attend dans ce monde en perpétuelle mutation ? Faut-il être astrologue ou devin pour s’y préparer,… ou plus raisonnablement prospectiviste. Suite de l'article...
By . Almost a year after a new set of Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 were finalised, the first report tracking global progress towards its goal for education and lifelong learning shows just how far there is still to go to make sure nobody is left behind. More...
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