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Published by Institute for the Future for the University of Phoenix Research Institute, 2011. Rather than predicting actual careers or job types, this report looks at Six Drivers of Change, and the resulting 10 Key Skills needed in the future workforce, including Virtual Collaboration.

The authors find similarities between gaming and virtual collaboration and posit that, to be successful, virtual collaboration must include "immediate feedback, clear objectives and a staged series of challenges [in order to] significantly drive participation and motivation."

Published by American Association of Community Colleges, April 2012. From this page, you can download a PDF of the full report, as well as video about the report, information on the 21st-Century Commission on the Future of Community Colleges, and coverage of this report in the media.

By Diana G. Oblinger, in EDUCAUSE Review, 45(2), March/April 2010. In an opinion piece, the President and CEO of EDUCAUSE looks at the future of higher education.

Posted by Melissa Terras in her eponymous blog, April 3 2012. Terras, a scholar in the Digital Humanities in the UK first uploaded her published papers to her school's digital repository and then blogged and tweeted about the papers. She has seen great growth in the download rate for these papers, though not across the board. To wit, she's increased her prominence (and that of her papers), but some of her papers are of greater interest than others. In future, she hopes to track her citation index over time, though it's too soon to measure at present.

This nicely summarizes Terras's lessons learned: "If (social media interaction is often) then (Open access + social media = increased downloads)."

Website of the MIT Media Lab. From their Mission and History page, "Now, in its third decade, the Media Lab continues to check traditional disciplines at the door. Future-obsessed product designers, nanotechnologists, data-visualization experts, industry researchers, and pioneers of computer interfaces work side by side to tirelessly invent-and reinvent-how humans experience, and can be aided by, technology."

An independently organized TED event looking at the role of new media and technology in shaping the future of education. March 6, 2010.

As usual, Godin offers plenty to think about. Blog: 5/16/11

Blog by Alchemy, Chris Chopyak, Lois Todd on twists and turns of collaboration and our behaviors and choices as our futures are challenged.

By Goldie Blumenstyk in The Chronicle of Higher Education - Administration section, May 22 2013. Announcement of a new report by the Century Foundation looking at the growing differences between 2-Year and 4-Year schools and considering socioeconomic impact of that gap.

By Caralee Adams in the College Bound section of Education Week, October 5 2010. Adams reports on the White House Summit on Community Colleges, held on October 5.

Posted by Gerry on (blog) Spectrum > Mobile Learning, Libraries, And Technologies, Feb 6 2010. Cites article by John Dew in The Futurist, vol 44(2), p 46-51, Mar/Apr 2010. Basic trends include global standardization of curriculum, greater diversity of student body, and more options for when/where learning takes place.

By Michelle M. Kazner in The Electronic Library vol 20 (5) 2002, p 395-400. This article looks at the library support that is required by the students of LEEP, the distance learning option at University of Illinois-Champaign.

Many of the ideas expressed here might be helpful as we navigate the role of digital librarian supporting the various existing KPI communities as well as any courses/new communities that might develop in the future. Part of SM's Instructional Design course 7/11.

2011 Horizon Report is a collaboration between The New Media Consortium and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative. Report focuses on six technologies to watch for future adoption. On near-term horizon (within next 12 months): electronic books, mobiles. 2-3 year horizon: augmented reality and game-based learning. Far term (four to five years): gesture-based computing and learning analytics (data-gathering tools & analytics to study student engagement, performance and progress with goal to adapt curricula accordingly).