1. TRENDS IN H.E. &
IMPLICATIONS FOR
LIBRARIES
Joan K. Lippincott, CNI, February 21, 2012

2. Selected trends
 Assessment
 Learning analytics
 Mobile Environment
 E-Research
 Globalization

3. Assessment
 Questions about the
value and price of
h.e.
 Questions about
student effort and
achievement
 Questions about
value of some
majors

4. Implications for libraries
 Opportunities to
demonstrate value
 Study environment
 Contribution to
academic
improvement
 Development of
higher order learning
 What will be
important to
officials?

5. Learning analytics
 Using data from
behavior of
successful students
to guide less
successful students
 Focus on
large, introductory
courses, especially
in STEM
 Looking for higher
order thinking or
mastery?

6. Implications for libraries
 Opportunities to
collaborate on
programs
 Writing centers
 Oral presentations
 Learning
communities
 Undergrad research
 [Less support for
information-intense
projects]

7. Mobile environment
 Tablet
computers, smartph
ones
 E-book readers
 Apps
 Few h.e. institutional
strategies
 Professional schools
most active
(business, journalis
m, medicine)

8. Implications for libraries
 Personalized
information
environments
 E-textbook and e-
book licensing –
institutional
strategies
 Incompatibility of
platforms

9. Implications for libraries
British Library WolfWalk NCSU

10. Will innovative T&L programs
connect to information?

11. E-Research
 Science, social
sciences, humanitie
s
 Data
storage, infrastructur
e, security
 Varying disciplinary
acceptance of
scholarly work
products
GIS Workstation NC State U. Library

12. Implications for libraries
 Consider data part
of collections
 Stewardship
 Funding model
 Opportunities to
showcase digital
content
McMaster U. Media Center

13. Implications for libraries
Digital scholarship centers U. Virginia Scholars’ Lab
 Institutional
resource
 Mission and
constituency
 Programs
 Staff
 Funding model

14. Globalization
 International
campuses
 Open courseware
 Very large open
courses
 Certification

15. Implications for libraries
 Content licensing for
international
campuses
 Incentive to use and
highlight open
materials

16. Other trends?
Distance
learning
Media
literacies
Open…
Demographi
cs
Community
colleges
Research Commons – U. Washington Libraries

17. Thank you!
Joan K. Lippincott
joan@cni.org
http://www.cni.org/about-cni/staff/joan-k-
lippincott/