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Academia next : the futures of higher education /

By: Alexander, Bryan, 1967- [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 ALE
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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"--.
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Standard Loan Standard Loan ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection 378.1010973 ALE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Lost Checked out 31/08/2021 0082506
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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"--.

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