Future of Higher Education

2026 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report | Teaching and Learning Edition

Tue, 12 May 2026 18:19:08 Z

The 2026 EDUCAUSE Teaching and Learning Horizon Report highlights how artificial intelligence, enrollment pressures, policy shifts, and sustainability concerns are reshaping instructional practice and institutional strategy.

2025 EDUCAUSE AI Landscape Study: Into the Digital AI Divide

Wed, 05 Feb 2025 17:58:09 Z

This report summarizes higher education’s experiences related to AI strategy and leadership, policies and guidelines, use cases, the higher education workforce, and the institutional digital divide.

ARL/CNI AI Scenarios: AI-Influenced Futures

Fri, 17 Jan 2025 15:07:10 Z

ARL and CNI have published the Deluxe Edition of the ARL/CNI AI Scenarios: AI-Influenced Futures. This publication is a critical asset for research libraries and organizations aiming to strategically plan for the transformative power of artificial intelligence.

2024 EDUCAUSE Horizon Action Plan: Unified Data Models

Tue, 05 Mar 2024 18:16:49 Z

This report envisions the preferred future of unified data models in higher education and provides an action plan targeting that future.

2023 EDUCAUSE Horizon Action Plan: Generative AI

Thu, 14 Sep 2023 17:39:55 Z

This report describes an ideal future for generative AI in higher education, drawing on the insights of a small panel of teaching and learning higher education experts, focusing on a 10-year timescale.

2022 EDUCAUSE Horizon Action Plan: Hybrid Learning

Tue, 27 Sep 2022 15:39:44 Z

This report draws on the insights of a small panel of higher education teaching and learning experts to describe an optimized future for hybrid learning, focusing on a 10-year timescale.

After the Pivot: Strategic Evolution of Online Education in the Research University

Tue, 18 Jan 2022 16:37:53 Z

This discussion paper was designed as a resource to assist academic leadership in Big Ten Academic Alliance institutions in evaluating strategic decisions related to the future role of online learning activities at their universities.

2021 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report^® | Teaching and Learning Edition

Wed, 26 Apr 2023 17:08:06 Z

The 2021 EDUCAUSE Horizon 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.

Traversing the Edge of Chaos

Fri, 17 Apr 2020 17:09:17 Z

A series of blog posts pondering a post COVID 19 world for higher education.

2020 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report^™ | Teaching and Learning Edition

Mon, 10 Feb 2020 17:50:43 Z

The Horizon 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.

Digital Transformation: The Quest to Rethink Campus Operations

Wed, 20 Feb 2019 16:14:56 Z

A sense of urgency surrounds the term “digital transformation,” but many in higher education struggle to define it, much less understand how it can improve their institutions.

7 Things You Should Know About Digital Transformation

Fri, 26 Oct 2018 14:56:14 Z

The term “digital transformation” (Dx) encapsulates the seismic cultural, workforce, and technological shift under way as the diverse digital landscape influences—and changes—almost everything we do.

Renewal and Progress: Strengthening Higher Education Leadership in a Time of Rapid Change

Tue, 16 May 2017 17:18:18 Z

A group of 35 current college and university presidents examine what will be needed to strengthen their role in the coming decades.

7 Things You Should Read About Key Trends Accelerating Technology Adoption

Tue, 19 Apr 2016 19:16:28 Z

This special issue of 7 Things You Should Read takes as its starting point the Key Trends Accelerating Technology Adoption in Higher Education section of the 2016 NMC Horizon Report.

7 Things You Should Read About Leading Academic Transformation

Fri, 25 Mar 2016 15:45:53 Z

Higher education’s teaching and learning mission is under significant pressure, both internally and externally. Technology creates new opportunities and raises expectations for what is delivered, how it is delivered, how much it costs, and the outcomes it produces. Higher education is exploring a reorientation around learner success through new course models, learning space designs, and ways of assessing academic progress.

7 Things You Should Know About Leading Academic Transformation

Tue, 22 Dec 2015 17:37:50 Z

Higher education’s teaching and learning mission is under significant pressure, and colleges and universities are exploring a reorientation around learner success through new course models, learning space designs, and ways of assessing academic progress.

Hire Education: Mastery, Modularization, and the Workforce Revolution

Tue, 22 Dec 2015 17:36:32 Z

Keys to Developing Higher Education Breakthrough Models

Tue, 22 Dec 2015 17:35:04 Z

Much has been written about the transformation taking place in higher education and the need for models that support an educational experience that is more accessible while also being more affordable.

7 Things You Should Know About Connected Learning

Tue, 22 Dec 2015 17:34:32 Z

Higher education is entering a new, evolutionary phase defined by connections between everything and everyone.

Top 10 Higher Education State Policy Issues for 2017

Fri, 20 Jan 2017 16:25:10 Z

This American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) paper provides a review of higher education policy issues that state lawmakers are most likely to discuss this coming year.