Tech Trends Higher Education Cannot Afford to Ignore

Via Education Drive (". . . an industry dashboard designed to keep education professionals connected with information that is critical to their jobs."), Davide Savenije summarizes the keynote address at the July 2013 Campus Technology Conference by Lev Gonick, the VP for Information Technology Services and CIO at Case Western Reserve University. 

12 tech trends higher education cannot afford to ignore

Gonick: "The challenge I’m going to present to you, as the revolutionaries out there, is that it’s not anymore—or perhaps never was—simply sufficient to say that we were there at the beginning," Gonick said during his opening remarks. "What really needs to be considered here is, what are the challenges that we face and how can we remain engaged in that vanguard role while, at the same time, figuring out what we want to hold onto from the past. Not only in terms of technology, but also in terms of the core services that our institutions provide to the broader initiatives in society, because, as these mutations unfold, there are certain things we want preserved and we have to be very clear about what the value [is] of the things we want to preserve along the way."

Here are the trends, as reported by Savenije:

1. The death of the personal computer. [I'm not so sure; I don't know that I would write this blog piece on a smartphone or tablet.]
2. The proliferation of mobile devices
3. The rise of social networks 
4. The next generation of networks Lev Gonick
5. The privatization of the cloud
6. The valuation of _____-as-a-service. (For example, research computing.) 
7. The promise of big data
8. The implementation of the flipped classroom
9. The future of the learning space
10. The legitimization of online learning
11. The evolution of the college campus (that it links more with the communities around it)
12. The adnent of the urban operation system

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(More on Gonick.)