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What’s on the Horizon?
2011 Heads of Student Administration Conference
Stephen WhitesideElizabeth Coulter
Friday 2nd September 2011
Sailing to the Horizon
• Sector Pressures
• Chaos of Technology Change
• Navel Gazing
• Onwards to the Horizon
• Embracing the new world
• Questions (of a nautical nature?)
The IT Change Perspective
Universities
IT
Universities
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Universities
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Global Financial Crisis
• Shrinking University Budgets
• Increased Compliance
• IT Costs rising higher than inflation
• Changing Australian competitive landscape
• Competition for International Students
• Increasing expectations
Source: Gartner 2011
Hype – The State of Technical Turmoil
Source: Gartner 2011
Media Tablet
Campus App Store
Social Media in Education
Cloud High Performance Computing
Federated Identity Management
CRM For Enrolment Management
Looking Inwards …
Navel gaze
Date: 02/09/2011
Spaces…
Date: 02/09/2011
Horizon Reports
• eBooks• Mobiles
– The majority of students own at least one mobile device with many owning three ( Andrews et al., 2011)
Date: 02/09/2011
Just over the Horizon1 year or less
• Open Content
Date: 02/09/2011
Open Education Resource foundation: Otago Polytechnic
Just over the Horizon1 year or less
• Augmented Reality• Game Based Learning
Date: 02/09/2011
A little bit further2-3 years
Gesture based computing: Wii, Kinect et al
Date: 02/09/2011
In the distance4-5 Years
Learning Analytics
In the distance4-5 Years
Universities are being challenged
‘There is little doubt technology is not only changing the way we teach and learn, is also challenging centuries-old academic structures and practices, the notion of what it means to be literate, and, potentially, the primacy of universities as the worlds’ arbiters and repositories of knowledge’ (Williams, 2011)
Questions?