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Educational Technology: Key Trends and Significant Challenges

15.03.12

This Horizon Report „2012 Higher Education Edition” draws on the expertise of an internationally advisory board that first considers a broad set of important challenges and trends, and then examines each of them in progressively more detail.

Key Trends

  1. People expect to be able to work, learn, and study whenever and wherever they want to.
  2. The technologies we use are increasingly cloud-based, and our notions of IT support are decentralized.
  3. The abundance of resources and relationships made easily accessible via the Internet is increasingly challenging us to revisit our roles as educators.
  4. Education paradigms are shifting to include online learning, hybrid learning and collaborative models.

Significant Challenges

  1. Economic pressures and new models of education are bringing unprecedented competition to
    the traditional models of higher education.
  2. Digital media literacy continues its rise in importance as a key skill in every discipline and profession.
  3. Institutional barriers present formidable challenges to moving forward in a constructive way
    with emerging technologies.
  4. New modes of scholarship are presenting significant challenges for libraries and university collections, how scholarship is documented, and the business models to support these activities.

Source: Horizon-Report „2012 Higher Education Edition”

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