One aspect of our mission is that we are a college preparatory school. But what does that mean? I realize that we want our students to be successful at the next level, but at times I feel that holds us back. Are we trying to have our students please college professors who are more backwards or behind the times than we are? As Sir Kenneth Robinson asked why do we hold our college professors in such high esteem as the end in mind? They are such an odd lot. Moreoever, it is difficult when we as teachers use our own college experiences of the past and hold them as a model for the future. I am glad to see that colleges are changing too. Here are some links to see what colleges are doing to prepare their students for the future. Perhaps we can keep this in mind to prepare our students for future colleges.
The Future of Higher Education from The Economist.
Significant challenges loom [for colleges]. For all of its benefits, technology remains a disruptive innovation—and an expensive one. Faculty members used to teaching in one way may be loath to invest the time to learn new methods, and may lack the budget for needed support. This paper examines the role of technology in shaping the future of higher education.
The Tower and the Cloud
The emergence of the networked information economy is unleashing two powerful forces. On one hand, easy access to high-speed networks is empowering individuals. People can now discover and consume information resources and services globally from their homes. Further, new social computing approaches are inviting people to share in the creation and edification of information on the Internet. Empowerment of the individual—or consumerization—is reducing the individual's reliance on traditional brick-and-mortar institutions in favor of new and emerging virtual ones. Second, ubiquitous access to high-speed networks along with network standards, open standards and content, and techniques for virtualizing hardware, software, and services is making it possible to leverage scale economies in unprecedented ways. What appears to be emerging is industrial-scale computing—a standardized infrastructure for delivering computing power, network bandwidth, data storage and protection, and services. Consumerization and industrialization beg the question "Is this the end of the middle?"; that is, what will be the role of "enterprise" IT in the future? Indeed, the bigger question is what will become of all of our intermediating institutions? This volume examines the impact of IT on higher education and on the IT organization in higher education.
In digital era, blue books still causing white knuckles Will the ever go away?
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