Dr. D. Christopher Brooks is a Senior Analyst with The Tambellini Group. Dr. Brooks has over 20 years of higher education experience as an instructor, professor, and researcher. He has co-authored two books, published dozens of research articles, reports, and blog posts, and delivered keynote addresses and research presentations worldwide. Before joining Tambellini Group, Christopher served as the Director of Research at EDUCAUSE and a research associate at the University of Minnesota. He earned his PhD in political science from Indiana University.
This report takes a closer look at some of the findings from the 2017 Student and Faculty Technology Research Studies about the LMS, as well as the preferences of students and faculty for teaching and learning environments, to investigate the relationship of blended learning and the LMS and to set the stage for a discussion of what might come next for the LMS.
This Horizon Action Plan is offered to the privacy and higher education communities as an actionable tool to help guide our thinking about tomorrow and to help inspire us to plan and take action today.
This second year of the faculty technology study is situated in the middle of what is surely one of the most dynamic decades in the history of higher education. Colleges and universities are monitoring or actively participating in some remarkable tectonic changes, including new technologies, new models for teaching and learning, and even new institutional models. With the 2015 annual EDUCAUSE Top 10 IT Issues list, we said that we are at an inflection point and that deploying technologies in appropriate ways can make significant differences for our students and for us. This year’s faculty technology study shows these activities well under way.