What’s on the Horizon? 2011 Heads of Student Administration Conference Stephen Whiteside Elizabeth Coulter Friday 2 nd September 2011

Sailing to the Horizon Sector Pressures Chaos of Technology Change Navel Gazing Onwards to the Horizon Embracing the new world Questions (of a nautical nature?)

The IT Change Perspective Universities IT Universities IT Universities IT

Global Financial Crisis Shrinking University Budgets Increased Compliance IT Costs rising higher than inflation Changing Australian competitive landscape Competition for International Students Increasing expectations Source: Gartner 2011

Hype – The State of Technical Turmoil Source: Gartner 2011

Media Tablet

Campus App Store

Social Media in Education

Cloud High Performance Computing

Federated Identity Management

CRM For Enrolment Management

Looking Inwards … Navel gaze

Date: 02/09/2011 Spaces…

Date: 02/09/2011 Horizon Reports

eBooks Mobiles –The majority of students own at least one mobile device with many owning three ( Andrews et al., 2011) Date: 02/09/2011 Just over the Horizon 1 year or less

Open Content Date: 02/09/2011 Open Education Resource foundation: Otago Polytechnic Just over the Horizon 1 year or less

Augmented Reality Game Based Learning Date: 02/09/2011 A little bit further 2-3 years

Gesture based computing: Wii, Kinect et al Date: 02/09/2011 In the distance 4-5 Years

Learning Analytics In the distance 4-5 Years

Universities are being challenged ‘There is little doubt technology is not only changing the way we teach and learn, is also challenging centuries-old academic structures and practices, the notion of what it means to be literate, and, potentially, the primacy of universities as the worlds’ arbiters and repositories of knowledge’ (Williams, 2011)

Questions?