Jamie Nelson
EDUCAUSE recently released its 2023 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report | Teaching and Learning Edition.
The annual report “profiles key trends and emerging technologies and practices shaping the future of teaching and learning, and envisions a number of scenarios and implications for that future. It is based on the perspectives and expertise of a global panel of leaders from across the higher education landscape,” including an emerging tech expert from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Jamie Nelson, Assistant Director of Emerging Educational Technologies at the Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning, was one of 55 experts from across the globe that served on the 2023 Horizon panel. Nelson also serves as the Associate Director of Educational Technologies at Gies College of Business at Illinois.
Nelson and the other panelists provided input on the macro trends they believe are going to shape the future of post-secondary teaching and learning and to provide observable evidence for those trends. They were also asked to describe the key technologies and practices they believe will have a significant impact on the future of postsecondary teaching and learning, with a focus on those that are new or for which there appear to be substantial new developments. After several rounds of voting, six items rose to the top of a long list of potential technologies and practices, and it may be no surprise that artificial intelligence captured the top two spots.
Below is an excerpt from the Executive Report:
Artificial intelligence (AI) has taken the world by storm, with new AI-powered tools such as ChatGPT opening up new opportunities in higher education for content creation, communication, and learning, while also raising new concerns about the misuses and overreach of technology. Our shared humanity has also become a key focal point within higher education, as faculty and leaders continue to wrestle with understanding and meeting the diverse needs of students and to find ways of cultivating institutional communities that support student well-being and belonging.
For this year’s teaching and learning Horizon Report, then, our panelists’ discussions oscillated between these seemingly polar ideas: the supplanting of human activity with powerful new technological capabilities, and the need for more humanity at the center of everything we do. This report summarizes the results of those discussions and serves as one vantage point on where our future may be head
Read the full 2023 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report | Teaching and Learning Edition or explore the report, key technologies and practices, scenarios, implications, and more through a series of videos by EDUCAUSE.