Engaging with Foresight: Identifying Local Trends and Technologies that Impact Teaching and Learning

Foresight is a process that allows us to anticipate what the future may hold, thereby allowing us to identify possible opportunities and challenges and prepare to take action toward our preferred future. The EDUCAUSE 2024 Horizon Report: Teaching and Learning Edition utilizes the foresight process and offers ideas about the future of teaching and learning in higher education, including trends, key technologies and practices, and scenarios of possible futures. In this session, we will share how an institution has been extending the foresight process to identify trends and scenarios that impact teaching and learning in its local context, and what some of the responses to the process have been. You will leave a plan for how your institution can engage with the foresight process to consider some of the trends and scenarios for your local (institutional, regional) context. How are these complementary and how do they differ from the future suggested in the Horizon Report? What does that mean for planning for the development of teaching and learning at your institution?