The higher education system has had some trouble adapting this year. After listening to a podcast on imagining the future (not a very good one so I won't bother you with the link), I've been wondering what higher education might look like in the future. I came across two sources this week that had some ideas.
One source was the Williams (2017) "Assessing collaborative learning: big data, analytics and university futures" article from class. This article presents ideas for assessing groups of students using analytics. This could be a mechanism to measure performance on authentic and complex problems. Employers consider these problem-solving skills important but it has been difficult to quantify these behaviors in a learning context. Analytics may help.
The other source, "How higher education may go best of breed, be disassembled amid online learning" by Dingan (2020) at https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-higher-education-may-go-best-of-breed-be-disassembled-amid-online-learning/, focused more on how higher education could adopt new business models the way many communication companies have done. Maybe the software-as-a-service model could work. Badging, MOOCs, self-directed learning - those could all be leveraged for such a change.
It'll be interesting to see how it all plays out over the next 10 to 20 years. Do you have any predictions?
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