Future Trends in Higher Education and Research in Finland Outi Tasala 10.06.2016
GOALS *THINKSTOCK • • To identify and predict the A common understanding and a trends in the higher education sector in national outlook of the possible Finland within the next 5 to 10 years future changes to steer the strategic decisions for the future • A local perspective 2
STARTING POINT 3
METHOD Creating a preliminary list of trends Finnish participants’ notes from EDUCAUSE 2015 Close reading of articles published about the topic Discussions with the representatives of the Finnish HEI’s Processing the list further and adapting and localizing it to better suit Finland and the European higher education area 4
WORK IN A CHANGING ENVIRONMENT… Strategic empowerment of faculty vs. strategic decision making and politics Trends in relation to the operational environment Decision making system and its influence Change in the commission New allocation of resources One trend raised in the Government Programme Further work was put on hold 5
TRENDS Emphasis on Lifelong cooperation learning Separation of Student research and centrism education Change in Exostructure organizing work Analytics Changing market 6
Wider course selection through cooperation Across Needs of the disciplines job market curriculum Emphasis on Flexible Incorporating cooperation paths between work HEI’s, different experience levels, and the into studies job market Teaching Modularity partnerships 7
New enterprises to challenge Institutions traditional focused institutions solely on teaching Separation of research and education 8
Cooperation in outsourcing Professionali- Multi- zation stakeholder cooperation Exostructure Hourly Change in faculty: sourcing teachers part strategies time, short term, faculty adjuncts Enterprises with focus on Corporate student cooperation services 9
Massive Real-time Data growth of reporting analysis and information data driven that can be decisions processed Business Intelligence Analytics Big Data Data to personalize learning Learning Early activities Academic Analytics alerts Analytics 10
Moving from one HEI to another Increase in non-traditional learners Flexible (older, study part time) opportunities Lifelong learning Alternative Competency- certificates based education 11
Greater demand on student Student SPOCs services: Success personalization Technologies of learning support Learners Interactivity producing digital content Student centrism Online learning challenging Modularity traditional degrees Customer Commer- relationship Social cialization management learning 12
Use of Learners to digital teach other video learners Disintegrated Optimizing IT-services educational technology: collaborating with faculty and academic Change in leadership organizing work Informal digital learning spaces Enterprise application integration Libraries as maker spaces 13
New Educational markets export through MOOCs Changing market Rise of global higher Multiculturality education 14
QUESTIONS? COMMENTS? KUVA: THINKSTOCK 15
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Thank you! *PICTURES: THINKSTOCK, OUTI TASALA, MARIA VIRKKULA Outi Tasala outi.tasala@csc.fi 17
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