1. Change pressures (Oct 8-14) What is influencing higher education?
   1. Fewer Resources
      1. state budget cuts
      2. endowments down
      3. student ability to pay tuition
   2. Greater competition
      1. demographic changes
         1. Colleges established during baby boom
         2. post-WWII democratization of higher ed
      2. International competition
      3. Alternative Models
         1. Online-only
            1. for-profits
            2. Western Governors U
         2. Certification programs
            1. CLEP
            2. MOOCs
         3. Online reputation in job-hutning
            1. Github in CS; Quora
            2. Badges
      4. widespread availability of information
      5. need to demonstrate effectiveness & value
         1. $10,000 degree programs
         2. assessment
            1. Training faculty to measure outcomes
            2. Third-party and standardized testing
            3. Tracking post-graduate outcomes
            4. What should we measure?
   3. Rising costs
      1. Human Resources
         1. Salaries
         2. Benefits
            1. Health care
            2. Tuition Exchange
         3. Rise in contingent labor force
            1. adjunct instructors
            2. subcontracting food service, etc.
      2. Library Subscriptions
         1. proliferation of journals
         2. corporate monopolies on academic publication
      3. infrastructure costs
         1. demands for newer buildings, finer amenities
   4. Higher Ed & the Workforce
      1. constant retraining, lifeling learning
         1. What are our obligations to our graduates?
      2. Is curriculum keeping up with workforce demands?
   5. cultural changes
      1. anti-intellectualism
      2. reluctance to pay for information
      3. emphasis on professions over liberal arts
      4. need to be "always-on", always connected
2. Net pedagogies (Oct 15-21) New models of teaching and learning
   1. Traditional Higher Ed
      1. large lecture model
         1. instructor role
            1. sage on the stage
            2. content delivery
            3. evaluator (tester) of learning
         2. student role
            1. recipient of content
            2. note-taker, memorizer
      2. seminar model
         1. instructor role
            1. guide on the side
            2. coach
            3. coordinator
            4. How to evaluate student performance while ceding control of learning to the students themselves?
         2. student role
            1. participant
            2. discussion leader
            3. constructor of knowledge
   2. Online Only
      1. Student experience
         1. flexibility
            1. asynchronous
            2. self-paced?
            3. removing education from TIME of class period, office hours, perhaps semester
         2. convenience
            1. access anywhere
            2. less commute time
            3. amenable to schedules of part-time students
            4. lifelong learners
            5. working students
            6. non-traditional students
            7. low SES students
            8. removing education from PLACE of school/classroom
         3. disadvantages
            1. difficult to interact with peers
            2. digital divide
            3. internet access and speed
            4. digital literacy of student
      2. Instructor experience
         1. not all are "digital natives"
         2. "always on"
      3. institutional aspects
         1. reputation considerations
         2. Human Resources
            1. faculty development / training
            2. instructional design
            3. tech support
      4. back-end / IT aspects
         1. server and other infrastructure
            1. on-site
            2. contract/outsource to "cloud"
         2. Learning/Course management system
         3. Greater potential for assessment
            1. immediate feedback
            2. granular usage data
            3. comparison across learners
            4. comparison over time
   3. Blended / Hybrid
      1. flipped classroom
         1. lecture at home
            1. video production
            2. length = short
            3. engaging
            4. integrated with assessment e.g. quizzes, exercises
            5. What about reading?
         2. make best use of face-to-face time
            1. problem-solving
            2. hands-on
            3. skill-building
      2. Developing Content
         1. interactive homework
            1. instant feedback
            2. self-pacing
         2. interactive textbooks
            1. multiple paths through the material
            2. search
            3. hyperlinked definitions (interactive glossary)
            4. links to external resources
            5. wikipedia
            6. primary literature
   4. Intellectual Property issues
      1. Proprietary
         1. Subscriptions/licenses
         2. Product as Servcie model
      2. Open
         1. OER- Open Ed. Resources
         2. OA- Open Access publishing
         3. FOSS- Open Source Software
3. Entrepreneurship in education (Oct 22-28) also commercial activity
   1. traditional college/uni
      1. need to diversify income strems
   2. For profit colleges
   3. explosion in online options
      1. Khan Academy
      2. MOOCs
         1. Coursera
         2. Udacity
         3. edX
      3. Open Source players
         1. Google Coursebuilder
         2. Class2Go
4. Big data and Analytics (Oct 29-Nov 4)
   1. Data-based decision-making
   2. assessment
5. Leadership in Education (Nov 4-11)
6. Distributed Research (Nov 12- 18) New models of inquiry
   1. Funding it
      1. public/private partnerships
      2. binational investment foundations
      3. Crowdfunding
      4. Prizes e.g. xprize
   2. Doing it
      1. who
         1. collaboration
            1. Internationalization
            2. authorship issues
         2. perpetual postdocs
         3. undergraduate research
         4. Citizen Science
      2. how
         1. Open Hardware & DIY instruments
            1. 3d printers
            2. "Thingiverse"
         2. Research Integrity Issues
      3. Data management
         1. Open Access Data
         2. Open Lab notebooks
         3. sharing codes & scripts
   3. Publishing it
      1. Open Access Publishing
      2. Alternative forms of dissemination
         1. blogs, social media
         2. unconferences / barcamps
         3. Virtual conferences
         4. How to include these in promotion and tenure decisions?
      3. Evaluating Research
         1. Post-publication peer review
         2. alternative metrics