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
      2. seminar model
   2. Online Only
      1. Student experience
         1. flexibility
      2. Instructor experience
         1. "always on"
      3. back-end / IT aspects
      4. institutional aspects
   3. Blended / Hybrid
      1. flipped classroom
      2. Open Educational Resources
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