We’ve been hard at work getting through the New Horizon Report that came out earlier this year. Came across some interesting findings from this internationally audited summary:
Trends the are currently out there in Higher Ed Online learning:
- Choice for learning on demand (informal and formal)
- Accessibility – cloud-based
- Collaboration
- Abundance of resources and relationships
- Shifting of Learning Paradigms
- Challenging-based & Active Learning for Student Engagement
I can’t say that these are just online-based trends, hopefully they are traditional classroom trends as well. Same goes for the challenges they brought up:
Challenges:
- Un-precedented competition to bring forth new learning education models
- Evaluation of available new resources (i.e. metrics)
- Digital media literacy skills
- Institutional change/barriers
- Need for scholarly repositories for emerging technologies