• Jan 11

  The Game to Watch

  Author: Christian Munson

  Anyone see Texas quarterback Garrett Gilbert get sacked last week?

  

  The influence of budget shortfalls and technology advancements will make higher education a great game to watch this year. Photo credit: djwudi via flickr.

  Here’s the replay.

  If you look closely (and transform from college football fan to higher education professional), Alabama’s Eryk Anders kind of looks like a 2010 budget nightmare demolishing the ivory tower.

  What a hit!

  Many state supported colleges and universities are going to feel it this year. Watching how they dust themselves off,  adapt and get back in the game will be fun to watch.

  I anticipate pain for higher ed, but I also think we’ll see  innovations emerge that reform and improve how campus communities deliver their education product. I’ll be looking for those innovations this year, and I’ll note them here when I see them.

  Technology’s influence on delivering higher education also promises to continue hitting hard in 2010. Two stories caught my eye last week.

  First, Inside Higher Education reported Jan. 8 that college libraries are increasingly open to text messaging as a channel for connecting research librarians with students.

  OMG!

  Second, just imagine what new touch screen tablet computers might do to libraries, text books, lectures, note taking and studying. This Jan. 4 video at the Wall Street Journal takes a glimpse at the future according to one book publisher. Check it out.

  I’m looking forward to how it all plays out, and will try to provide some play-by-play commentary as it does.

  Now, I think I’ll watch Garrett get creamed again.

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