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Ward, David – EDUCAUSE Review, 2013
David Ward, Interim Chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 2011 to 2013, and Chancellor from 1993 to 2000, describes the changes coming to higher education. He reports that the second half of the twentieth century was a time of great creativity in the kinds of public policies that were put into place for higher education in the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Sustainability, Strategic Planning, Educational Change
Fry, Katherine G. – Journal of Media Literacy Education, 2011
An important challenge for media literacy education in the next decade will be to cultivate a commanding voice in the cultural conversation about new and emerging communication media. To really have a stake in the social, economic and educational developments that emerge around new digital media in the U.S. and globally, media literacy educators…
Descriptors: Media Literacy, Science and Society, Futures (of Society), Technological Advancement
Saba, Farhad – Educational Technology, 2011
The practice of distance education in the United States is traced back to its early roots. In the 20th century, distance education remained at the periphery in corporate training, K-12 schools, and most universities, but it gradually developed its practice by using broadcast media, and later the Internet. Since the turn of the current century,…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Educational Trends, Trend Analysis, Educational Development
Carey, Kevin – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009
Newspapers are dying. Are universities next? The parallels between them are closer than they appear. Both industries are in the business of creating and communicating information. Paradoxically, both are threatened by the way technology has made that easier than ever before. The signs of sickness appeared earlier in the newspaper business, which…
Descriptors: Newspapers, Institutional Survival, Trend Analysis, Educational Development
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Barrett, Ralph V.; Meaghan, Diane E.; Doughty, Howard A. – College Quarterly, 2009
Anyone who already regards college education as a business should have no trouble with corollary notion that marketing is essential to success. In the information and service industries including education, marketing depends more upon image than it does in resource extraction, refining and manufacturing. In this article, the authors focus on Diana…
Descriptors: College Students, Marketing, Student Recruitment, Educational Change
Fanton, Jonathan F. – John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, 2006
Over the last few years, the Board and staff of the MacArthur Foundation have been exploring the implications of the digital age. They are engaged in a continuous and purposeful meditation on technological innovations and their possibilities for all the work they do. Their working hypothesis is that the digital revolution will rank with the…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Influence of Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Performance Technology