Higher Education Technology Trends and Developments

EDUCASE’s Horizon Report (2019) highlights significant challenges that are impeding technology adoption in higher education. They summarize and discuss six challenges that are considered or expected to impede innovation, adoption, or scale when it comes to improving the teaching profession in higher education.

Improving Digital Fluency

The topic of digital fluency in higher education might seem unnecessary to discuss as some might feel that a certain level of digital fluency should already be achieved by students. However, according to EDUCASE’s Horizon Report (2019), there is a difference between digital fluency and digital literacy and this should be acknowledged in higher education along with all levels of schooling. Digital fluency has more to do with understanding the digital environment, creating content, and adapting to new digital contexts. Experts would suggest that it might not be all that simple to differentiate between digital literacy and digital fluency and that it would also…