Recap of EDUCAUSE 2015
Last week I attended the conference EDUCAUSE 2015 where I had the opportunity sessions and keynotes on trends affecting higher education. One of the things that I found interesting is concentrated, to visit some of these trends appear to conflict with each other. That's not a bad thing ... every organization various developments faced, can promote the conflicts within the organization. But understanding that the conflicts and planning for it is an interesting discussion in itself.
With regard to the development of higher education, what conflict I'm talking about? On the one hand there was the discussion as higher education focuses on competence-based training and successful student achievement (and the role of technology in promoting this goal).
on the other side there are discussions was how quickly technological innovation will force changes not only at the university, but many of the jobs eliminated in fact, that the university education of students for. If the latter is the case, then what is the role of universities in helping students succeed in finding jobs when many of these jobs will disappear?
If these trends in conflict? Should colleges and universities continue to competence-based training, and focus on successful student performance when new technologies influence can make the labor market that an unattainable goal?
There can focus on conflicts its potential, but also the potential is definitely for colleges and universities to really move to the forefront of this technological and economic changes and really help students and workers concerned navigate successfully changing and confusing job landscape
Disruptive change. Can Higher Education Keep Up?
which then begs the question: can keep up with the pace of change step higher education, especially if this pace continues to accelerate? An interesting point of the Andrew McAfee Keynote at EDUCAUSE, if you follow the path of Moore's Law, then recently we reached the stage where the acceleration of computing power to take away really. The speaker used the analogy rice doubling on a chess board, said that, when you apply this analogy to Moore's law, we are only recently the second half of the chessboard circa 06 entered If you follow this logic, then on he we now they will far exceed what we experienced in the last 50 years on a way in innovation. This is something that we talked about recently when we explained to the Internet of things, that the best yet to come.
If the speed of innovation accelerates at this rate, this will be the ultimate challenge for higher education. most of the universities I fully aware are talking that innovation happens quickly, but at the same time they are also known, the reputation of higher education has an industry that often adjust slowly to change.
I know in my conversations with many colleges and universities, I have seen a commitment to student success, reaching more students use technology and the students to change engagement model.
be as the pace of change accelerates, the best suited, that pace of change to meet the real question is? Are all schools? If not, what type of school is best suited to meet these changes? will adapt them and their students, as colleges and universities to the changes affect the real development in the coming years. One thing I know is that Citrix is committed to help colleges and universities keep up with the pace of change today and tomorrow.
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