Staying in Touch With Trends in Higher Education
This edition provides some easy ways to stay in touch
with trends in higher education.
Find Articles Online:
The Professional Development Collection is a database designed for educators and provides full-text of nearly 520 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. In addition to full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for more than 700 journals. This is a great source to use to locate recent articles on topics that matter to Puget Sound.
Find Books Online:
Take advantage of our growing electronic book collection. You don’t even have to leave your office and can browse the book online at your leisure. The collection offers access to thousands of quality academic/scholarly titles in all disciplines. Three current titles are profiled below: The Mobile Academy, Disability Services and Campus Dynamics and Diversity in American Higher Education can all be read online.
You can easily find eBooks in Puget Sound WorldCat. Search by author, title, or subject, and then limit your results to eBook. Keep in mind that you only have access to eBooks that we own and they cannot be borrowed through interlibrary loan. For more information about our eBook collection, read our informative guide.
Teaching tip: You can also use these eBooks in classes by linking to the titles via Moodle and making them available to your students.
Read the 2013 Horizon Report.
The Horizon Report is an unbiased source of information that helps education leaders, trustees, policymakers, and others easily understand the impact of key emerging technologies on education, and when they are likely to enter mainstream use. Some of the recent trends noted include:
- 3D printing
- Open Content/Open Access
- MOOCs
- The workforce demands skills from college graduates that are more often acquired from informal learning experiences than in universities
- The role of educators continues to change due to the vast resources that are accessible to students via the Internet
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This is a monthly futures report for higher education. Bryan Alexander is a senior fellow at NITLE. Sign up for the newsletter here: http://bryanalexander.org/future-trends-in-technology-and-education/
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