CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION ON CAMPUS
NMC HORIZON REPORT 2017
Five-year outlook on higher education and technology focuses on 18 areas campus officials should keep in view.
By Richard W. Walker
Advancing progressive technology approaches in higher ed will require cultural transformation on U.S. campuses — including more innovative, creative and entrepreneurial thinking — according to the latest NMC Horizon Report from the New Media Consortium and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative.
“NMC Horizon Report: 2017 Higher Education Edition,” released this week at the ELI annual conference, examines the trends and developments that will drive technology adoption and educational change over the next five years for higher education institutions based on input from 78 education and technology experts from 22 countries on five continents..
Creating “cultures of innovation” is one of the principal messages in the 53-page report, which provides a technology planning guide for educators, leaders, administrators, policymakers and technologists in the higher education sector. Divided into three sections, the report covers key trends accelerating technology adoption, major challenges impeding technology adoption and important developments in educational technology.
Each section explores in detail six topics that are relevant to technology adoption, challenges and technological developments, amounting to 18 crucial areas that demand the attentin of campus stakeholders...
The authors also identified “big-picture” themes that underpin the topics addressed in the report. Among the themes are:
- Cultural transformation. Institutions must be structured in ways that promote the exchange of fresh ideas, identify successful models within and outside of the campus and reward innovation in teaching—with student success at the center.
- Real-world skills. Institutions have a responsibility to deliver deeper learning experiences and skills-based training that integrate technology to bolster post-graduation employability and workplace development.
- Collaboration. Institutions and educators can make more progress by learning from each other through the creation of communities of practice, multidisciplinary leadership groups and open social networks.
- Equal access. Despite the proliferation of technology and online learning materials, student access is still unequal. Gaps persist across the world based on socioeconomic status, race, ethnicity and gender.
- Learning metrics. Leaders must consider how to evaluate the acquisition of vocational skills, competencies, creativity and critical thinking.
- Digital fluency. Training must go beyond gaining isolated technology skills toward generating a deeper understanding of digital environments.
- Online, mobile and blended learning. If institutions don’t already have robust strategies for integrating these now-pervasive approaches, they will not survive.
- Agile learning ecosystems. All the components of the learning experience must be agile enough to support practices of the future.
- Incubating intuitive computers. As artificial intelligence and natural user interfaces tip into the mainstream, universities are at the forefront of designing machine-learning algorithms and haptic devices that more authentically respond to human interaction.
- Lifelong learning. Institutions must prioritize and recognize ongoing learning, which is the lifeblood of higher education.
Read: 16 issues driving higher education's approach to teaching and learning, also released at the ELI conference.
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