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Why the Future is So Hard to Predict ?>

Why the Future is So Hard to Predict

…but this is also what makes it so much fun.Five years ago, most of us hadn’t heard of what are now some of the dominant communication platforms of our time: “In 2006, YouTube and Twitter had just been born, and Facebook was a toddler,” said Jeffrey I. Cole, director of the Center for the Digital Future at the Annenberg School of the University of Southern California. This is from a new report, “The Digital Future Project 2011,” released by Cole’s center. Five years…

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What will The College of 2020 look like? Part 1: Guest Post by Lloyd Armstrong ?>

What will The College of 2020 look like? Part 1: Guest Post by Lloyd Armstrong

(This is the first of two posts written by guest writer Lloyd Armstrong, University Professor and Provost Emeritus at the University of Southern California, and author of the blog, Changing Higher Education.) Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future Niels Bohr What will the College of 2020 look like? It probably will be similar in at least one way to the College of 2011 -there isn’t any one archetypal College of 2011 and there won’t be any one archetypal College of…

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Top 10 List: Prepare for The College of 2020 ?>

Top 10 List: Prepare for The College of 2020

Is your college ready for 2020? Are you anticipating how society is going to change and trying to position yourself where your customer wants you to be? Or, are you stuck in the old mode of thinking that what we have is good enough? This is a partial checklist of what colleges should to be doing to be ahead of the game: 1. Articulation — Is your college negotiating agreements with community colleges, other institutions with similar missions and programs…

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