At work, we are approaching our annual Planning Day, so surveying trends and change drivers for that and for scenario planning on this course have converged in my mind with possibly confused and confusing results.Probably have spent too long on this as, like Sandra, I'm a day behind now. Will have to catch up in the weekend.
However, this has been a fun task, particularly as I love the Horizon reports and already referenced one of them in a tweet on this course last week. There is definitely a convergence of drivers and trends the more you read. Each author addresses or approaches them slightly differently, but they distill down to very similar points. I would ntoe that the Horizon reports are specifically about technologies, and we do need to remember that technologies are only one aspect of trends in learning and teaching - as we all know from the TPACK model (Mishra and Koehler).
From the 2013 Horizon report for Higher Education, this is my first key issue: Need for faculty training in what the report calls Digital Media Literacy.
"Faculty training still does not acknowledge the fact that digital media literacy continues its rise in importance as a key skill in every discipline and profession. Despite the widespread agreement on the importance of digital media literacy, training in the supporting skills and techniques is rare in teacher education and non-existent in the preparation of faculty... This challenge is exacerbated by the fact that digital literacy is less about tools and more about thinking, and thus skills and standards based on tools and platforms have proven to be somewhat ephemeral".
I selected this trend because, especially with an aging lecturer population, and the demands of PBRF; in my institution not everyone perceives the need to change and the driver is not particularly clear to them. It is part of my job to clarify this driver.
Trend Two is Australian, from an investigation of public univiersities by Ernst &Young : Integration With Industry. This is defined as "Scale and depth of industry-based learning, Research partnerships and commercialisation, Industry as competitors in the certification and delivery of content." It is selected in my context because we already have issues around the perceived equality of service provision between universities and ITOs, and already a strong request for more industry and iwi partnerships and relationships, both formal and informal. Much current pattern of provision needs to change for this trend to be fully supported and sustained.
http://www.ey.com/Publication/vwLUAssets/University_of_the_future/$FILE/University_of_the_future_2012.pdf
Ernst & Young's report University of the future: A thousand year old industry on the cusp of profound
change.
Note that Ernst & Young also identified my third trend (headed up Democratisation of knowledge and access in their list)
From a blog post about drivers for change, I selected this final one:
The Abundance of Quality Content. Here Morrison talks about the fact that students have access to many more sources of quality information now, and this changes the relationship between student and teacher onto a more equal footing.
This is significant in my context because the team in which I work is responsible for empowering students and staff to locate, evaluate and use appropriate information sources, and also to promote innovative and successful ways of teaching and learning. Teaching staff often find that students are locating resources that they did not know about themselves, but, also, finding resources for the LMS that will engage students is a much faster task now, allowing more time to be spent on other aspects of teaching.
http://onlinelearninginsights.wordpress.com/2012/11/24/three-big-changes-ahead-for-higher-education/ November 24 2012 blogpost by Debbie Morrison.
http://www.ala.org/acrl/sites/ala.org.acrl/files/content/publications/whitepapers/EnvironmentalScan13.pdf
This one is a 2013 scan from the USA Association of College and Research Libraries - (" the document is a scan of the environment and is not intended to be an exhaustive examination of every aspect of librarianship. It identifies current and emerging factors that impact academic libraries; describes the broader context in which these libraries operate; and outlines related implications for library resources, services, and personnel. It is intended to support the planning and positioning of academic libraries for the future".)
I have added this resource because it is full of relevant points that back up all the other readings. Each of my three trends appear in it, though under slightly different headings.
Music listened to while preparing this blog post: Actually, I had Tales of Old Dartmoor by the Goons playing quietly in the background. Note sure what message that sends...
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