Horizon report

 Have you ever thought about what a construct of the future of educational technology in higher education is? 

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My reflection about "2020 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report Teaching and Learning Edition" is ;

Before starting to read my article, you should visit my "Terminology" article if you think you don't have enough information about the integration of technology into learning. 

Even if we don't have a time machine, like in Doctor Who, we know that social, technological, economic, higher education, and political trends that signal departures from the past, that are influencing the present, and that will almost certainly help shape the future.

It is important to start with the major trends that are shaping global higher education and teaching and learning and then continue with emerging technologies & practices, scenarios, and a set of short essays, written from different regional and institutional perspectives.

Trends

Higher education is always and everywhere shaping and being shaped by larger macro trends unfolding in the world surrounding it.

In other words, we can say that higher education is always developed countries.

To ensure that we identified a wide array of trends, we can look across five categories:

Social

• Well-Being and Mental Health
• Demographic Changes
• Equity and Fair Practices

Technological

• Artificial Intelligence: Technology Implications
•  Next-Generation Digital Learning Environment (NGDLE)
•  Analytics and Privacy Questions

Economic

• Cost of Higher Education
• Future of Work and Skills
• Climate Change

Higher Education

• Changes in Student Population
• Alternative Pathways to Education
• Online Education 

Political

• Decrease in Higher Education Funding
• Value of Higher Education
• Political Polarization 

Emerging Technologies and Practices

Horizon panelists  describe those emerging technologies and practices they believe will have a significant impact on the future of postsecondary teaching and learning, with a focus on those that are new or for which there appear to be important new developments and  the top of a list that initially consisted of 130 technologies and practices:

• Adaptive Learning Technologies
• AI/Machine Learning Education Applications
• Analytics for Student Success
• Elevation of Instructional Design, Learning Engineering, and UX Design in Pedagogy
• Open Educational Resources
• XR (AR/VR/MR/Haptic) Technologies

I think there should be one more category for Elon Musk's Neuralink. It is a kind of technological devices that are integrated into your brain. 

Actually, I wonder if we do this, there will be education anymore, or not?

As you see, when we accept this, I think we can reach information directly. In this situation, we won't need education anymore. So what will the whole education system happen?

Maybe, the number of students going to school will decrease but the whole education system won't end due to the fact that some people won't want this device.

Even if panelists see some technologies and practices on the list as more expensive and riskier than others, and some of them warn that faculty might not be especially receptive, at least initially, panelists see considerable potential for some of these technologies to positively impact student learning and to provide needed support for equity and inclusion. 

As a developing country, Turkey tries to have these technologies and has some projects like Fatih project.

Scenarios

These “all four points of the compass” approach have been taken to provide distinct future alternatives for postsecondary teaching and learning and they will enable you to anticipate a variety of possible futures in your planning for what might come our way.

• Growth
• Constraint
• Collapse
• Transformation

Implications Essays

Horizon panelists are asked to reflect on the report’s findings and offer their thoughts on the most important implications for their own higher education context and these perspectives represented in these essays illustrate the ways in which issues overlap, diverge, and intersect in different parts of the world and at institutions of different sizes and types and also provide a nuanced snapshot of the key issues in global higher education.

Unfortunately, they do not come close to covering all the facets of global higher education but their value lies in part in the global perspective on higher education that it affords.

• Australia
• Canada
• Egypt
• France
• Global
• Community Colleges
• Baccalaureate Institutions
• Master's Institutions
• Corporate Perspective on
• AI/Machine Learning

It released in 1.11.2020

The last update was in 4.11.2020

References

• 2020 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report Teaching and Learning Edition
• Freepik