The third EDUCAUSE strategic priority is to provide our members, over the next few years, with an expanded and reimagined portfolio of professional learning options, including personal assistance in exploring opportunities for both institutions and individuals.
To continue to be relevant and contribute to the economic growth of millions of Americans, US higher education must evolve and serve the needs of students and the employers that seek to hire them.
Many in higher education fail to understand how change has changed. A focus on information technology as it has shaped and continues to shape the structure and nature of the organization requires the community college to become an IT enterprise.
Shifting from a transactional model to partnership models, libraries are repositioning themselves as laboratories for exploration, incubators for ideas, and essential collaborators across the teaching, learning, and research enterprises.
To ensure equitable learning experiences, campuses can build scalable learning-ready spaces that support the multiple teaching identities and philosophies of faculty and the physiological, cultural, and cognitive needs of all students.
Guided by the principles of complexity science and working collectively, innovation leaders can and should develop the frameworks that both speak to academic values and help all of us in higher education adapt to a changing context.
The digital transformation of higher education will bring a cultural shift in how enterprise IT systems and services are managed and delivered. Instead of focusing on the technology itself, IT leaders will need to focus on furthering the transformation of the institution and enabling institutional goals.
The higher education community must set the table and invite others to help us define ethical practice and responsible use of student data in the rapidly changing digital world of the academic enterprise.
Increasing the retention of IT employees from diverse backgrounds will require effort. But the benefits to a campus will be much greater than the investment.
Gameful design embraces incremental implementations of proven intrinsic motivators while it acknowledges, accentuates, and builds on the work that good instructors do as second nature.
