Research and Foresight support the growth, innovation, and transformation of the Ontario postsecondary education sector to further digital-by-design educational futures.
Research and Foresight supports organizational and sector capacity in three key areas:
Understanding the landscape
for impact and change
Identifying insights for
transformation
Disseminating knowledge
for strategic action
Capacity Building for Innovation and
Digital Transformation (Dx)
Understand the postsecondary education landscape for impact and change
We collect data and information.
Lead research activities that reflect member institutions’ needs and priorities as they enable Digital Transformation throughout their programs and services.
Identify insights for Digital Transformation
We identify new opportunities.
Support the understanding and use of complex datasets and emerging trends to enact Digital Transformation across Ontario’s postsecondary institutions.
Support strategic action
We explore the futures of postsecondary education.
Help leaders and innovators in Ontario’s postsecondary sector navigate Digital Transformation for informed and future oriented decision making.
Foresight Reports
Foresight reports are tools to support the navigation of uncertain and complex futures. Foresight helps inform present day decision making by identifying patterns of change that may have significant lasting impacts for the futures of higher education. These tools can be used to help you engage in strategic action to enable Digital Transformation and build Dx capacity at your institution.
Reports in Collection 1 provide high-level overviews of maturing trends within the postsecondary education sector. We recommend readers use these reports as maps to explore the futures of postsecondary education.
Reports in Collection 2 take a deeper look at the themes in Collection 1 to understand how these trends are materializing across campuses.
Reports in Collection 3 will further uncover the complexities of flexibility from the perspective of postsecondary educators. A series of participatory workshops with educators will help uncover how flexibility relates to their role and the factors driving the need for it.
2021–2022
Collection 1: The Virtual Learning Landscape Ahead
2022–2023
Collection 2: Expanding the Scope of Postsecondary Education
2023-2024
Collection 3: Improving Flexibility in Postsecondary Education
2024
Thinking about the long-term future can be difficult because it is too abstract or too ambiguous. However, it is critical to engage in long-term thinking exercises, since the choices we make today will shape the futures that are possible. To support that long-term thinking capacity, the Research and Foresight team at eCampusOntario have designed artifacts from the future of higher education. Artifacts from the future are imaginary objects designed by extrapolating possibilities from the patterns of change we see today. They are created to give a “tangible” experience of what a possible future could be like.
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