Academia next : the futures of higher education /
By: Alexander, Bryan [author.].
Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020Description: xi, 331 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.Content type: text | text | still image | cartographic image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9781421436425; 9781421436425; 1421436426.Subject(s): Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives -- United States | Universities and colleges -- United States -- Administration | Universities and colleges -- Administration -- United States | Education, Higher -- Effect of technological innovations on -- United StatesDDC classification: 378.1010973 ALEItem type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 378.1010973 ALE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Lost Checked out | 31/08/2021 | 0082506 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I. Trends -- Objects in Mirror May Be Closer Than They Appear -- Catching the University in Mid-Transformation -- The New Age of Fewer Children and More Inequality -- The Marriage of Carbon and Silicon -- Beyond the Virtual Learning Environment -- Connecting the Dots: Metatrends -- Part 2. Scenarios -- Peak Higher Education -- Health Care Nation -- Open Education Triumphant -- Renaissance -- Augmented Campus -- Tutor Me, Siri -- Retro Campus -- Part 3. To the Future and the Present -- Beyond 2035 -- Back to the Present.
"The author argues that the number of higher education institutions in the United States has peaked--that is, has hit the maximum for meeting consumer demand--and he tracks the trends in higher education he sees as the result. His near-future predictions are meant to prepare university administrators who want to anticipate and adapt to shrinking enrollments, reduced public support, and a proliferation of competing technological options for education"--.