EDU 684: The Future of Higher Education

Overview

In this course, we will be considering the many issues that currently face higher education and further learning institutions that will have a long-term impact on learning, teaching and the business of higher education. The students will have the opportunity to plan for the future of higher education and further learning. Issues that will be discussed include public accountability, financing, outcomes assessment, distance learning, proprietary institutions, access to higher education, higher education and the marketplace, workplace learning and governance. You will examine the relationship that higher education and further learning has to a democratic society. You will create a project that allows you to explore, implement, or evaluate current and/or future developments affecting institutions of higher learning.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Describe the rise of public accountability and its impact on higher education and further learning.
• Critically analyze the ways in which outcomes assessment have become part of the structure of teaching and learning in higher education.
• Analyze changes in online and distance learning and the impact they have had on access to higher education.
• Describe the issues surrounding access and affirmative action in higher education.
• Analyze the relationship of proprietary institutions to the system of higher education and democracy.
• Identify the role of workplace learning to the future of lifelong learning.
• Describe the role of finance and financial issues to the future of higher education and further learning.
• Analyze issues of governance.
• Describe the relationship of higher education, further learning and the marketplace and that relationship’s impact on higher education as a democratic endeavor.

Required Texts
EDU 684 texts are available from the JIU/MBS bookstore