Looking at Colleges and Students Ten Years in the Future
Posted on July 21, 2009 by Jennifer Brady
The Chronicle of Higher Education recently announced findings through Chronicle Research Services, based on interviews with 121 institutions, about the college… and college student… of the future. Their report, called The College of 2020: Students is apt to significantly reshape the views of anyone who thinks the world of higher education will be business as usual in the coming decade.
At the link provided above you can access a free three-page executive summary of the research results. Copies of the full study must be purchased. But if you’re an educator, a student, or a parent of current or future college students, you’ll want to at least read the summary.
I can’t compress all the findings of the research in this post, but here’s one that will surely resonate with anyone providing, taking or considering online college courses today:
Only about half the institutions believe that in 2020 their enrollments will be primarily made up of traditional-age, full-time students. By 2020, almost a third of respondents said, students will be taking up to 60 percent of their courses entirely online. Now almost no students at those colleges take courses only online.
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