16. Monthly environmental scan report
Developed + tested through social
media
December-January campus survey
17.
18.
19. 1. Economics and college finances
2. Communities and populations
3. Teaching and learning and tech
4. Technology ecosystem
5. The future of liberal education
6. MOOCs
7. Scholarship
20.
21. Continued Academic
cost/value union critiques
crisis of online
learning
The higher
Changes in
education
internships
bubble
Crowdsourcing
concept
in academia
22.
23. 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
24.
25. Uses of social Learning
media analytics
Uses of Web Changes in
video library role
Digital
Changes in the
humanities (in
LMS world classroom)
Blended The rise of the
learning Maker
movement
32. Credit for MOOCs
STEM vs humanities
Sustainability
xMOOC vs cMOOC
Liberal arts campuses
entering
33.
34. 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
35.
36.
37. NITLE Future Trends page:
http://www.nitle.org/future_trends.
php
Bryan on 1970s tech:
bryan.alexander@nitle.org
Bryan on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/bryanalexander
Notas del editor
The National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) works with a diverse community of liberal arts colleges and universities. This national network is focused on developing a deep understanding of the undergraduate student experience, the impact of the broader technological environment on teaching and learning, and the future of liberal education.