This month I fired off the first issue of a monthly report on the future of higher education. It’s called Future Trends, and goes to leaders of NITLE Network campuses.
In each report I present a list of significant trends in how higher education is likely to change, especially under the impact of digital technology. Research backs up each trends, as does ongoing social media work. I use networks connected through Twitter, Facebook, G+, the blogosphere, podcasts, etc. to learn about developments, share my thoughts, and test analyses.
I also check back over previous reports’ trends to see which ones are proving true, which are dormant, and which were just wrong.
Questions, observations, comments are welcome, naturally.
They have been great throughout the pilot and I look forward to reading more of them soon. Whatever their predictive capacity, the excellent environmental thumbnails (tiny versions of a scan) you produce will be an excellent snapshot of a given moment – good fodder for the time series models of the future. It might be worth mentioning on our futures blog as well, in case you hadn’t already thought of it.