2017 Top Technologies
1. Active learning classrooms (e.g., student-centered, technology rich learning environments)
2. Technologies for improving analysis of student data
3. Uses of APIs
4. Incorporation of mobile devices in teaching and learning
5. Mobile apps for enterprise applications
6. Blended data center (on-prem and cloud-based)
7. Technologies for planning and mapping students’ educational plans
8. Database encryption
9. Technologies for triggering interventions based on student behavior or faculty input
10. Mobile device management (tie)
10. Technologies for offering self-service resources that reduce advisor workloads (tie)
The Top Trends report describes the trends EDUCAUSE members predict will exert the most influence over their IT strategy in 2017. The Top Trends were those that fell into the top 2 tiers of influence; they are 12 of a full set of 36 trends that also included Internet of Things, sustainability, and changing faculty roles.
2017 Top Trends
Most influential (major influence on IT strategy in 61-80% of institutions)
· Continued complexity of security threats
· Student success focus/imperatives
· Data-driven decision making
Taking hold (major influence on IT strategy in 41-60% of institutions)
· Increasing complexity of technology, architecture, data
· IT as an agent of institutional transformation and innovation
· Compliance environment
· Institution-wide data management and integrations
· Campus safety
· Business process redesign
· Diversity and inclusivity
· Changing enterprise system architectures, integrations, and workflows
· Incorporating risk-management approaches into IT strategy and service delivery
The technologies and trends findings reinforce student success as a central theme for higher education information technology in 2017—more than half of the EDUCAUSE Top 10 Emergent Technologies for 2017 pertain to student success. Two of the three most influential 2017 trends are pertinent to student success: student success focus/imperatives and data-driven decision making.
“The distinction between the priorities of the IT organization and those of the institution is blurring, and panelists were very conscious of that,” said Grajek. “Collaboration across campus is more important now than ever before as we truly understand the impact it can have on institutional and student success.“
The Top 10 IT Issues report and accompanying resources are available at www.educause.edu/itissues. The Top 10 Strategic Technologies report will be published end of January at www.educause.edu/top10tech2017. For more information about EDUCAUSE, visit www.educause.edu.
Material from a press release was used in this report.
- 25 education trends for 2018 - January 1, 2018
- IT #1: 6 essential technologies on the higher ed horizon - December 27, 2017
- #3: 3 big ways today’s college students are different from just a decade ago - December 27, 2017