Trends in Higher Education  

Top Trends in Higher Education  

What's on the Horizon in Higher Education  

The Horizon Report Key Trends:

1. People expect to be able to work, learn, and study whenever and wherever they want to.

2. The technologies we use are increasingly cloud-based, and our notions of IT support are decentralized.

3. The world of work is increasingly collaborative, driving changes in the way student projectsare structured.

4. The abundance of resources and relationships made easily accessible via the Internet is increasingly challenging us to revisit our roles as educators.

5. Education paradigms are shifting to include online learning, hybrid learning and collaborative models.

6. There is a new emphasis in the classroom on more challenge-based learning and similar methods foster, which more active learning experiences, both inside and outside the classroom.

Texas Governor Rick Perry has an idea about how to run higher education institutions. He earned his undergraduate degree from Texas A&M University, College Station.

His idea at NPR  

There's a debate across the country over how well universities are preparing graduates for the real world, and whether colleges should operate more like businesses (students are customers, and professors are sales). That debate is particularly heated in Texas, where Gov. Rick Perry wants big changes at state colleges, including the flagship University of Texas (UT-Austin).

TED Talks Education  

As a country, how can we better inspire our students -- and support

our educators? To explore ideas, TED, WNET, PBS and the

Corporation for Public Broadcasting have teamed up for a

brand-new one-hour special, funded by

 "American Graduate: Let's Make It Happen." 

TED Talks Education is an exhilarating night of talks hosted by John Legend. 

Didn't get to watch TED Talks Education on PBS last night? No worries! There are two ways to watch now:

1. See the webcast of the show on PBS: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ted-talks-education/

2. Posted full-length versions of talks from the show on TED.com. See much more than you got to see on air: http://www.ted.com/TEDTalksEd

Want to talk about something you saw on the show? Join the conversation on TED.com: 
http://www.ted.com/conversations/18193/ted_talks_education_the_pbs.html